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Berea Innovation Studio (BIS) is a club organization at Berea College with the mission of inspiring an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit among all Berea College students by creating an environment that nurtures the innovative energy and entrepreneurial mindset. It is a platform for students to learn and practice the concepts of I&E through interaction with peers on idea generation, prototype creation, and startup launch. It strives to engage all students in its activities, programs, and events, and thus, make a mark as one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial colleges in the US.<br/>The current activities, programs, and events are as following:
<span style="font-size:larger;">'''Idea I'''</span><span style="font-size: larger;">'''dea Bounce: '''</span>Idea Bounce is the first business idea pitch competition among interdisciplinary students in Berea College. It is designed to help students develop and pitch and an idea, receive feedback and earn prize money. It was launched in Spring 2015 by UIF Cohort 2014 and is organized once every semester. Local and regional entrepreneurs, innovators and thought leaders have been invited as Judges of Idea Bounce in the past. <span style="font-size: larger;">'''Local Hack Day:'''</span>Local Hack day was organized as an incentive to engage the campus and the community into the mindset of coming together and solving a problem in electronics or computer science for 12 hours, without any prior knowledge in coding. It was organized for the first time in December 2017 and brought together about two dozens of students. '''Campus Challenges: '''The campus challenges are designed to interact with students on the campus and engage them in prototyping and thinking about creative ways of solving challenges through making tangible things.
= FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP =
