Thank you for Making Entrepreneurship Week 2007 a Success
From February 24 to March 3, 2007, entrepreneurs, educators, community leaders and young people across the US celebrated the power of entrepreneurship and ignited the nation’s consciousness about the importance of being entrepreneurial. Entrepreneurship Week USA offered a tremendous opportunity to engage and encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs. The initiative enhanced on-going interest and provided an educational kick-start for the uninitiated, serving as an inspiration for young people to begin a journey to fulfill their potential as self-starters and entrepreneurs.
National Entrepreneurship Week Website
2007 Entrepreneurship Week Events
- Student Organization Event Sponsorship - All week
- $100 sponsorship for any student organization that hosts an approved entrepreneurial event during Entrepreneurship Week
- IdeaBounce Competition: Wish you could make $125 per minute...turn your idea into cash!
- Click here to read about the upcoming IdeaBounce
- Registration is now closed, thank you for your idea submissions
- Thank you to our co-sponsor the Daily Illini
- Teaching Entrepreneurship at Downers Grove South High School - Chicago Suburbs:
- Thursday, March 1
- The Academy in partnership with Downers Grove South High School, will be presenting a lecture to Professor Patrick Fardy's Business Management and Introduction to Business courses.
- Students will learn about psychological factors that lead to entrepreneurial success, and hear stories of real-world entrepreneurs who have turned their dreams into famous companies.
- Entrepreneur Film Project:
- UIUC YouTube competition in partnership with the College of Communications
- Videos to be showcased on Thursday, March 1 during Krannert Uncorked and Entrepreneurial, on the lobby plasma screens at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and on the Academy website.
- Krannert Uncorked and Entrepreneurial:
- Thursday, March 1, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Performance by: The Chris Reyman Duo
- Join the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and the Academy for a night of wine tasting, music and entrepreneurship! Mix and mingle with your friends, and enjoy the student video and poster displays, reflecting on social entrepreneurship. With partners Sun Singer Wine & Sprits, The Corkscrew Wine Emporium, Friar Tuck Beverage, jim gould, and Bacaro, Krannert Center showcases the best in beverages. Beverages may be tasted free of charge and will be available for purchase by the glass at a special discounted price during the tasting.
- Watch entrepreneurial videos on the Krannert plasma screens, designed by students in the UIUC Multimedia Visual Journalism for a Global Audience course. This class is a discovery course in the Department of Journalism, College of Communications, taught by Professor Brian Johnson.
- Entrepreneurial Arts Organizations and Artists Workshop -
- Friday, February 23
- 10:00 AM - 4:30PM - 1817 S. Neil Street, Suite 201
- In partnership with 40 North l 88 West, we proudly welcome renowned cultural facilitator and consultant Jerry Yoshitomi, who will lead the informative workshop.
- Workshop participants will:
- Explore ways to get patrons to make repeat purchases or refer friends to your organization
- Learn new approaches and technologies to expand memberships, audiences, donor base and income
- Address the barriers that discourage participation and the drivers that encourage participation
- Better reveal the benefits and value artists have already provided to customers, audiences, students, parents, etc.
- Social Entrepreneurship Movie Lunch: The Citizen Sector Transformed & What It Means for You:
- Friday, March 2 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Campus YMCA, downstairs rooms K1 & K2
- Lunch is provided!
- Sponsored by The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership as a part of EntrepreneurshipWeek USA , the Graduate Social Work Student Association will be showing a clip from ASHOKA Foundation's Social Entrepreneurship 16-part Film Series, www.ashoka.org, in which Bill Drayton, the founder and current CEO and Chair of ASHOKA, explains social entrepreneurship, the widely-acclaimed approach to tackling the world's biggest problems. There is a movement being led by social entrepreneurs, innovative people who respond to local problems, engage their communities is solving them, and accelerate change that is entrepreneurial, competitive, innovative, and effective. Bill Drayton discusses the civic sector's rapid rise and its profound implications for business, media, government leaders, citizen groups, educators, and students. Those who do not engage and leverage the new actors who are driving such dramatic change will miss out on major opportunities in their own work.
- Entrepreneurial Student Posters:
- In partnership with the Introduction to ImageMaking course (ARTD 213) students will create a series of three posters, centered around the social entrepreneurship theme "Students for Equal Existence." This project is part of the Graphic Design program's initiative to cultivate students to use their design skills to help better mankind.
- Entrepreneurship in the Champaign High Schools:
- Are you an entrepreneur? Would you classify yourself as a self-starting innovator, do you capture unique opportunities and turn them into action?
- The Academy will be working with Champaign High Schools to help students asses their future career options and entrepreneurial strengths.
- Faculty Fellows Announcement Luncheon - Monday, February 26
- 11:30am - 1:00pm - Levis Faculty Center, Music Room
- Special guest , Provost Linda P.B. Katehi
- By invitation only
- Second Annual Innovation Celebration Dinner - February, 28
- Hosted by the Vice Chancellor for Research, The Academy, and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation.
- Over 500 invited guests will join together to celebrate entrepreneurial initiatives on campus and in our community.
- By invitation only
- Guest Lecturer Paul Schuytema: The Entrepreneur's Creativity Workshop
- Thursday, March 1, Levis Faculty Center, Music Room
- Paul Schuytema has been blending creativity, entrepreneurship and software development since he created his first commercial software title in the early 1980s. Since then, he has created over 50 games, authored over 200 professional articles and written over a dozen books in the fields of computer technology, computer gaming, game design and creativity.
- The Creativity Workshop has one goal in mind: to hone your most important piece of software: your creative mind. While the subject of this session is creativity, the approach is practical and is focused on delivering tools and understanding to the participants so that they can leave the session with new skills that they can put to work immediately, not just abstract concepts.
- Faculty Simulation Training - Engage your class in an entrepreneurial computer game
- February 26, 3:00-6:00 pm & March 1
- ACES Library computer lab
- For faculty and graduate students
- The Marketplace Simulation delivers hands-on classroom experience, resulting in dynamic, interactive learning. This computer simulation allows students to compete against each other in a fictional online entrepreneurship game...where the best team business decisions win! The simulation can spark competitiveness, motivate students, and increase their involvement in your course, which all lead to better student ratings for you as an instructor. Register for our free workshop that will walk you through the marketplace software tools.