Create student entrepreneurs v4

CREATING STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS

Kendall E. Martin, Ph.D. Amit B. Singh, Ph.D.1

THINKDREAM INSPIRE

MOTIVATE

To Create an Entreprenuer,

DRIVE

• Daniel Pink

SCIENCE ON ENGAGEMENT SAYS:

ENGAGED CLASSROOM

• Teamwork and Inter-team work

• Communication at a distance

• Presentation skills

• Writing and review

• Soft skills

• Link projects to higher Purpose

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MAPS TO MOTIVATION

Autonomy

•Teaming

Mastery

•Skill sets recognized as valuable

Purpose

•Topic of personal relevance

•Topic of institutional relevance

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THINK

CREATE: DIVERGENT THINKERS

STRATEGIES

• Worst into Best exercise

• Shadow a consultant and report back with analysis paper

• Outside speakers

• Make projects available to outside world

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DREAM

REQUIRES TIME

• “no time to dream”

• Must be built into class

• A dream is a success not a failure

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FAILURE RESUME

CreativityRulz

“…to craft a résumé that summarizes all their biggest screw ups — personal, professional, and academic. For every failure, each student must describe what he or she learned from that experience “

demonstrate that failure is an important part of our learning process, especially when you’re stretching your abilities, doing things the first time, or taking risks

PROTOTYPE

• Mock App

• What kind of app was needed in 1941?

• Create a prototype and have students write content for it

INSPIRE

CES COURSES AND PROGRAMS

• Certificate program

• Non-Credit courses/programs

BUSINESS INCUBATOR

• Ten office spaces - $250/month

• Initial licensing agreement for one year

• Business Plan needed to apply

SERVICES

MENTORING

External Partnership Agreements with:

The Small Business Administration (SBA)

SCORE - Counselors to America’s Small Business

Mentor Program

CES Advisory Committee Members & SCORE members

BUSINESS SERVICES

• Copy machine; mailbox; receptionist; computer; phone, conference room

STUDENT CES

• Adrienne Reynolds

• M-Cubed

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GUEST

• Bring in guest virtual or live

• Incubator resident

• College Environment

• advantages

• challenges

• possibilities

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RESOURCES

• ITunes U :

• Tina Seelig @ Stanford

• “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”

• Eileen Kierney PBK

• CES

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TO CREATE STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS….

• Autonomy / Mastery / Purpose

• Divergent Thinking

• Dreaming

• Role Models

• Possibility

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CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION @

• kmartin@mc3.edu

• ATC 305

• CES Wednesday Noon

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SEELIG1) Every problem is an opportunity for a creative solution. Attitude is everything and you control your attitude.

2) The harder you work, the luckier you get. You need to put yourself in a position to make yourself lucky.

3) Find the intersection between your interests, your skills, and the market.

4) Try lots of things and keep what works. it around the lake without falling down. He replied, "if you aren't falling down, you're not trying hard enough."

5) You don't have to wait to be anointed.

6) Don't burn bridges.

7) You can do it all, just not all at the same time.

8) It's the little things that matter most. Look people in the eye. Sit up straight.

9) When you are a team, the key is making everybody else successful.

10) Never miss an opportunity to be fabulous. This is not a dress rehearsal.