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<span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">'''<u>Bluestone Hacks</u>'''</span></font></span>
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*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bluestone Hacks is a weekend-long hackathon facilitated by X-Labs. Teams of students from all majors and backgrounds are guided by mentors and are encouraged to create and compete. Idea and product generation areas include food/agriculture, healthcare, and consumer devices and tools.</span></span>
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><u>'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">BizBlitz</span></span>'''</u></span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span></span>'''</u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">BizBlitz is JMU’s first full scale “Startup Weekend” style events for entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, makers, and others who want to pitch a startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. At BizBlitz, teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote), and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend culminates with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders for another opportunity for critical feedback.</span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size: medium;">The ICE House</span>'''</u></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Innovation, Collaboration and Entrepreneurship (ICE) House is a lean startup started by the College of Business, Center for Entrepreneurship, JMU Technology Innovation and 4-VA. It is run by JMU X-Labs to set up, speed up and support business ideas or lean. startups and encourage Innovation and Entrepreneurship.</span></span></span>
[https://www.jmu.edu/cob/centers/center-for-entrepreneurship/students/venture-creation-fellowship.shtml <span style="color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><u style="font-size: large;3"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Venture Creation Fellowship'''</spanu>Bluestone Hacks</bu>'''</uspan></spanfont></span>]
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<u style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium;">'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[https://beinvolved.jmu.edu/organization/JMUSOE Society of Entrepreneurs]</span></span>'''</u>
*<u style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium;">'''<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>'''</u>'''<u><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span></u>'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The JMU Society of Entrepreneurs brings entrepreneurially minded students together. In the organization members educate each other and the JMU community on topics of interest, support each other with new ventures, and reach out to entrepreneurs in the community to help them and learn from them. The society also hosts speakers and events to educate the JMU community about different topics based around entrepreneurship. The society is application based, and therefore consists of high-caliber entrepreneurs at JMU.</span>
<br/><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><u>'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MadHack</span></span>'''</u></span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span></span>'''</u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MadHack was JMU’’s first full scale hackathon,sponsored by Capital One, offering a creative and collaborative software development experience. For 24 hours students built innovative web and mobile apps, as well as hardware.</span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: larger;">The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is an educational and service organization that empowers women to succeed and advance in the field of engineering, and to be recognized for their life-changing contributions as engineers and leaders. SWE establishes engineering as a highly desirable career for women through an exciting array of training and development programs, networking opportunities, scholarships, outreach and advocacy activities, and much more.</span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Recruit-A-Duke is James Madison University’s online career services management system that provides JMU students access to internships, full-time jobs, career fairs, workshops, information sessions, and more.</span></span></span>
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<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size: medium;">The ICE House</span>'''</u></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Innovation, Collaboration and Entrepreneurship (ICE) House is a lean startup started by the College of Business, Center for Entrepreneurship, JMU Technology Innovation and 4-VA. It is run by JMU X-Labs to set up, speed up and support business ideas or lean. startups and encourage Innovation and Entrepreneurship.</span></span></span>
[https://www.jmu.edu/cob/centers/center-for-entrepreneurship/students/venture-creation-fellowship.shtml <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><u style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Venture Creation Fellowship</span></b></u></span></span>]
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The Center for Entrepreneurship offers teams of students the chance to grow their ideas into a starup company through the Venture Creation Fellowship. Small teams of students and/or faculty members can apply to the fellowship and if accepted they will attend an 8 week program running from June to July aimed at helping them transform their ideas into success stories. Teams are given a stipend, granted access to the ICE House workspaces, and paired with an experienced mentor. </span></span>
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<font color="#000000" size="3">'''<u></u>'''</font><u style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">BizBlitz</span></span>'''</u>
*<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>'''<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>'''</u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">BizBlitz is JMU’s first full scale “Startup Weekend” style events for entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, makers, and others who want to pitch a startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. At BizBlitz, teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote), and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend culminates with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders for another opportunity for critical feedback.</span></span>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:medium14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Center for Entrepreneurship offers teams of students the chance to grow their ideas into Bluestone Hacks is a starup company through the Venture Creation Fellowshipweekend-long hackathon facilitated by X-Labs. Small teams Teams of students from all majors and/or faculty members can apply to the fellowship backgrounds are guided by mentors and if accepted they will attend an 8 week program running from June to July aimed at helping them transform their ideas into success stories. Teams are given a stipend, granted access encouraged to the ICE House workspaces, create and paired with an experienced mentorcompete. Idea and product generation areas include food/agriculture, healthcare, and consumer devices and tools.</span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><u>'''<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>'''</u></span></span><u style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Startup Studio</span></span>'''</u>
*<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>'''<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>'''</u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Startup Studio is a rapid-pitch event hosted by the Society of Entrepreneurs semi-regularly. In the confines of two hours, students meet, split into groups, recognize a problem related to the given theme, develop a solution, and pitch their idea to the rest of the groups. This exercise helps to illustrate to students how to think with an entrepreneurial, creative problem solving mindset.</span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><u>'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Undergraduate Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship</span></span>'''</u></span></span>
