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The Skandalaris Center offers many programs that provide real-world,
practical training in creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.
COURSES
Navigating the Startup World NEW in Fall 2017!
This is the Skandalaris Center’s first for-credit course. It is based on
content from renowned Silicon Valley accelerator, Y Combinator,
and walks students through ideation, team formation, and validation.
Enrollment maxed out at 30 students, spanning from all colleges
and all levels (undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff). This
speaks to the growing demand for entrepreneurial training on
campus.
The Hatchery
The oldest entrepreneurship course in the country, The Hatchery
began in 1997 as an opportunity for students to spend an entire
semester developing a venture concept, readying it for launch. The
capstone class for both the undergraduate entrepreneurship major
and the MBA entrepreneurship platform, the class accepts students
from all levels and disciplines. Each semester, law, social work,
engineering and fine art students join the business and arts and
sciences students to collaborate on a diverse range of ideas. An
experienced entrepreneur, Cliff Holekamp launched his Foot Healer
clinics through The Hatchery when he was an MBA student; he took
over teaching the class in 2008. Since then, 49% of ventures have
launched, 67% of those are still operating, and combined, those
companies have raised more than $68 million. The Skandalaris
Center provides support to the class in the form of volunteer
recruitment and management. Mentors and judges are a big part of
the class’ success and many teams cite community members’
involvement in the class and beyond as a reason their venture
succeeded.
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TRAINING EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
All events NEW in Spring 2016!
Entrepreneurship 101
This was a 7-week entry-level workshop series for
By providing
nearly 100 participants from all seven schools
and from every level, including
resources and new
undergraduate, graduate, postdoc,
events targeted to an
faculty, and staff.
array of interests and
skill-levels, we more-than
Meet & Eats are
doubled participation from
irregularly occurring events
previously hard-to-reach
intended to help students refine
populations (i.e. art,
their skills and knowledge in various
areas. The topic changes every time in
law, and social
order to provide an interdisciplinary experience.
work ).
Meet & Eats
Meet & Eat guests have included a Hollywood
producer, a fitness center entrepreneur, a marketing
expert, a muralists, and an investor. This program was
launched so that we could reach more students, and last year,
25%-40% of Meet & Eat attendees were new to the Center at each
event.
Freelance Bootcamp
Freelance Bootcamp was a 3-day workshop series to help enable
students to freelance their skills. Attendees learned how to brand,
market and legitimize themselves as a business. Participants came
from Arts & Sciences, Olin Business School, Sam Fox School of Design
& Visual Art, School of Engineering & Applied Science, and the
School of Medicine.