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=== Entrepreneruship Events<br/> ===
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Many students are not fully exposed to student entrepreneurship before their senior year.<br/></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">By then students feel that it is too late to diverge from the path that their student loans have created for them.<br/></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Freshman, and sophomores, are left with little to motivate them towards a more entrepreneurial career. </span>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently, a lack of focus on transitioning leadership in many clubs and innovative organizations has led to a either stagnation or a reverse in progre</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ss.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> RPITalks, a club that hosted events similar to TEDx talks, is a recent example of a lack of student leadership. RPITalks disbanded after its founding member, Jay, graduated from RPI. Jay, spearheaded the program and the formation of events, but a successor did not emerge organically from the club members. Jay lacked the skills needed to train someone to lead after him and many of the underclassmen members felt they lacked the entrepreneurial skills to continue the club.</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">For these clubs to thrive, ideally, there would be a ripple effect of excitement coming from the leaders flowing to the newest members.</span>
Fall 2017:
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Zaijohns Zaire Johnson]
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