Three-Week Incubator Seminar - Day One
Contact: Michael Zinn, President, Student Entrepreneurship Club zinnberg@gmail.com for information.
Register here.
Interact with local businesses. This fun tour is open to everyone, whether you are a student or a community member! Participate in our GEW Scavenger Hunt on the following dates and times: November 10, 11, 14, and 15, anytime between noon and 4:00 p.m.
Turn in the list below with your answers and be entered for a chance to win great prizes. The gift baskets will be at the Happy Valley LaunchBox Tuesday (November 15) and Thursday (November 17). Also, come to Thursday's events to win more tickets to enter into the basket drawing. We look forward to seeing you around downtown on the hunt for the eight locations on the GEW Scavenger Hunt.
Let the games begin!
Contact Michael Zinn, President, Student Entrepreneurship Club
What’s a Maker Space? Let Penn State Altoona alum Justin Merrill tell you all about this multipurpose collaborative environment for professionals, entrepreneurs, and individuals, available for independent projects and the assistance of start-up businesses.
Open House at Catalyst Space
Brown Bag Lunch in The Graham Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies in the Bradley Building. The Graham Center staff will stream the Penn State University Park GEW Keynote Speaker Bill Brock. Graham Center students and leadership members are invited to bring their lunch, as we offer good discussion, drinks, and dessert.
Listen to a 70-year-old woman speak — for one of the first times ever — to an audience. Project Vive, a local start-up company, creates custom speech-generation devices for people with communication-related disabilities. Arlyn, who was born with cerebral palsy and dysarthric speech, is their first device user. Come to the event to listen to Arlyn share how she has overcome challenges and found access to a device that allows her to share her passions. Mary Elizabeth, founder of Project Vive and recent Penn State biomedical engineering grad, will also share her inspiration behind the company and how she has developed it to where it is today. The rest of the time will be an interactive workshop that will invite the audience to write down challenges they face, their passions, and ideas on ways for them to pursue them. This event is open to all ages and abilities!
Penn State Altoona alum Mr. Michael Rethage has an amazing story to tell AND wants to answer your questions about how to think like an entrepreneur and get started with your business idea! He started his first business when he was 14! Don’t miss his fascinating story, tips, and suggestions!
GENERATION START-UP takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing on film the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build start-ups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it’s an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a start-up. Directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade and award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Miller Houser, the film celebrates risk-taking, urban revitalization, and diversity while delivering a vital call-to-action — with entrepreneurship at a record low, the country’s economic future is at stake.
Food provided by this evening's sponsor: GEW
What’s a Maker Space? Let Penn State Altoona alum Justin Merrill tell you all about this multipurpose collaborative environment for professionals, entrepreneurs, and individuals, available for independent projects and the assistance of start-up businesses.
Open House at Catalyst Space
Leaving Vietnam with his family and coming to the United States at an early age, Hung Ly proceeded to build a highly successful business from scratch. Hung Ly's story is truly amazing and inspiring to every person who dreams of owning their own business someday.
Leaving Vietnam with his family and coming to the United States at an early age, Hung Ly proceeded to build a highly successful business from scratch. Hung Ly's story is truly amazing and inspiring to every person who dreams of owning their own business someday.
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Brown Bag Lunch in The Graham Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies in the Bradley Building. The Graham Center staff will stream the Penn State University Park GEW Keynote Speaker Hung Ly. Graham Center students and leadership members are invited to bring their lunch, as we offer good discussion, drinks, and dessert.
This session will help students actually work through the specifics of building a new business that has the potential to be franchised both in the United States and around the world.
"How To Create A Successful Franchise"
- divide the group into teams and give them the following challenge:
Identify an existing business or create a business idea that could be successfully franchised both in the U.S. and other countries. Be prepared to make a 5 minute presentation that covers the following:
We give them about 15 - 20 minutes to work on their presentation. Hyung Ly can move from team-to-team very quickly providing advice and answering questions.
They make their presentations to judges. Hyung Ly makes closing remarks regarding the total effort.
Highly successful intrapreneurs Juan Mario Gomez of GE, Andrew Lang of Omega Notes, and Bill Donley, former president and CEO of Tangent Rail Corporation, will participate in a lively discussion on how to act entrepreneurial inside of established organizations. Panel moderator will be Mr. Brad Leve, associate director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Cost and registration: $30 per person. STUDENTS ARE FREE. Call 814-949-5535 or email SRA1@psu.edu
Business Training Program: Delivering the Best in Customer Service
What’s a Maker Space? Let Penn State Altoona alum Justin Merrill tell you all about this multipurpose collaborative environment for professionals, entrepreneurs, and individuals, available for independent projects and the assistance of start-up businesses.
Brown Bag Lunch in The Graham Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies in the Bradley Building. The Graham Center staff will stream the Penn State University Park GEW Keynote Speaker Jayme Goldberg. Graham Center students and leadership members are invited to bring their lunch, as we offer good discussion, drinks, and dessert.
Brown Bag Lunch in The Graham Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies in the Bradley Building. The Graham Center staff will stream the Penn State University Park GEW Keynote Speaker Jayme Goldberg. Graham Center students and leadership members are invited to bring their lunch, as we offer good discussion, drinks, and dessert.
The Harrisburg Regional Chamber Business Expo, with the Entrepreneurial Expressway, is presented in cooperation with Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Penn State College of Medicine, and Penn State Harrisburg. Register here.
Women spend an estimated $20 trillion in annual consumer spending, but most of the world’s products are still being designed by predominantly male design teams. As such, many products on the market today don’t adequately address the unique problems that women may face in different aspects of their lives.
In this hands-on, teams of women and men will work through a design thinking sprint to create a prototype that better addresses a specific issue faced by female college students while using their mobile phone.
Cost and registration: $30 per person. STUDENTS ARE FREE. Call 814-949-5535 or email SRA1@psu.edu
This program provides students with the opportunity to expand their network and get immediate feedback on their ventures or entrepreneurial career goals and aspirations by meeting one-on-one with Mr. Beaver.
Brown Bag Lunch in The Graham Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies in the Bradley Building. The Graham Center staff will stream the Penn State University Park GEW Keynote Speaker Dan Deaver. Graham Center students and leadership members are invited to bring their lunch, as we offer good discussion, drinks, and dessert.
Kickoff for the Penn State York Start-Up Challenge is sponsored by The Graham Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies in the Bradley Building.
Learn all the details and receive applications for this spring 2017 competition. It's open to the entire campus. Details about the challenge will be posted on the campus website by Thursday, November 17, 2016.
https://meeting.psu.edu/r4x8huli0mv/ and PSU Abington@611.
https://meeting.psu.edu/r4x8huli0mv/ and PSU Abington@611.
Want to hear from other current Penn State students and alumni? Interested in cars? What about apps? Maybe yoga? Or how about music/entertainment? Then come connect with other Penn State students and alumni to hear their incredibly inspiring stories. Hear it from an extremely diverse group! Listen to their stories — from cars to yoga to apps to hearing about the music industry.
WAIT! Not interested in entrepreneurship or startups? Fine. But I promise you will be missing out on connecting with these exceptional peers of yours. You may even recognize a few of them!
Join us to learn more about the Center’s mission and vision to ignite an entrepreneurial spirit and launch students driven to greatness! Food, beverages, and giveaways.
Make your reservations through The Chamber: $6 – Chamber members, $12 – Nonmembers, Call 814-943-8151 or register online at www.blairchamber.com.
This program provides students with the opportunity to expand their network and get immediate feedback on their ventures or entrepreneurial career goals and aspirations by meeting one-on-one with Mr. Beaver.
Online Chat with Penn State Altoona Alum and Franchising Guru
Contact Michael Zinn, President of the Student Entrepreneurship Club at zinnberg@gmail.com
