School:William Jewell College

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship On Campus

At William Jewell, students have many available resources to use when it comes to I&E. The school offers various clubs, events, and maker spaces that are for student use.

Clubs and Organizations

The clubs and organizations that we have on campus are the TECH Club, E-Society, InScape Digital Magazine, and Jewell Communication and Theatre Society. The TECH Club, also known as Teach Everyone Coding and Hardware, is a club that reaches out to campus to educate and create awareness of technology and coding. The E-Society is the Jewell Entrepreneur Society that does events throughout the year as well as creates an interest for entrepreneurship and innovation in the student body.  The Jewell Communication and Theatre Society helps assist students with networking with professionals and teaches about the possible careers in this subject matter.

Events

William Jewell College offers and extensive list of events for students to go to which include an extensive lecture series, Big Omaha, Big Kansas City, the Kansas City Maker Faire, and One Million Cups. Organizations around campus also contribute to events that help inspire innovation and entrepreneurship such as the E-Society, a professor sponsored weekly networking meeting called BizTime Coffee, Lean Startup Machine in Kansas City that is sponsored by the Business Department, and Think Big Pitch Camp that is also sponsored by the Business Department.

Spaces

The College built a new building called the Pryor Learning Commons just over a year ago that consists of spaces dedicated to I&E. These spaces are open to the whole campus and are able to be reserved for any time of the day. These spaces include a graphics suite, an audio suite, a 3D printing suite, an editing suite for graphics, and  multiple collaboration spaces.

On Jewell’s campus there are two shops in the Physics Department that are the machine shop and the electronics shop. These spaces, are however, mostly used by students in the Physics Department. These shops require special training to use which makes them less accessible to the larger student body.

A private shop is located about thirty-five minutes away called the Design Shop and it is available for student use. It is a business professor initiative at bringing design and creativity to campus and to the community.

Related Resources

2014-2015 Leadership Circle: Bradley Dice, James Milam, Kate McFerren, Amelia Hanzlick, Conner Hazelrigg