2020 Cohort
21
edits
Changes
<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Startup Weekend: </span>Anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams form around the<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">top ideas then have the weekend for business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend ends with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''Student Research & Creative Activity'''</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Expo</span>'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">:</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">800</span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">students from 56 different departments and schools showcase their original research at Ohio University’s biggest-ever Research and Creative Activity Expo with live performances, presentations and interactive demonstrations.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Student Expo: </span>Once a year, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to present their research and receive recognition.</span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Eco Challenge: </span>Eco challenge partners students across disciplines to create sustainability solutions for Ohio University's campus. Projects are evaluated based on the triple bottom line, which seeks solutions that consider the impact on people, planet, and profit.</span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Human Powered Vehicle Challenge: </span>The Human Powered Vehicle Challenge, through the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, provides opportunities for students to design and build highly engineered vehicles and test them against one another through sprint and endurance races. They demonstrate how sound engineering design can create and improve sustainable and practical transportation alternatives.</span></li>
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