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<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''#1 - Guiding, encouraging and inspiring students about non-corporate career paths.'''</span>
*PROJECT - A periodically updated “How to” and "Where to" website for Koc University - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">November 2017</span>
**An updated website that guides students through skill and goal related journeys.
***Listing all the related courses, gatekeeper people and professors, affiliated organizations, student clubs and “inside information” about specific goals, skills, needs.
***''Example Case''
****''Student: I am interested in entrepreneurship but I don't know if I am a good fit. I don't know where to start. ''''Where should I start entrepreneurship or design at Koc?'''''
****''Platform: You can start with this article from Steve Blank. How To Start a Startup Series are a very good source for getting to know what entrepreneurship really means. In Koc, you can take MGMT 411 and 412. Our university is also affiliated with KWORKS, an incubation center. There are also MAVA courses that introduce design thinking project mindset that is very helpful and related to starting a new venture. You can check MAVA 205. If you are also interested in social issues, you should check MAVA 420 and MGMT 311. Imece and Impact Hub are Istanbul-based social entrepreneurship hubs, you should look at their websites too.''
*PROJECT - A Startup career event - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">December 2017</span>
**Collaborating with career center, entrepreneurship club, marketing club, business administration club to gather 10+ startup founders with students to introduce succesful entrepreneurial career paths, hold pitch & innovation challenges with them.
*PROJECT - TEDx event focused on I&E
*PROJECT - Pitch competition
*PROJECT - Innovation challenge
*ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS
**A chatbot mobile application that creates instant answers from the website database
**Quarterly-revised handbook that lists all the information website has
***"A Creative’s Guide To Thrive at Koc University"</li>
<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''#2 - Initiating, sustaining and developing a multi-disciplinary creative network.'''</span>
*There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines to get to know each other and somehow interact.
