Workshops

Concurrent Symposium Workshops: Monday, June 11, 2018, 1:00-4:00pm

Workshop A: Spurring Innovation with Project-based Learning

Additional $75 Fee
Leader:

• Prof. Rick Vaz, Director of WPI’s Center for Project-Based Learning, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Project-based learning is a high-impact pedagogical strategy to help students develop transferrable skills in areas such as research, problem solving, communication, teamwork, and leadership by developing innovative solutions to open-ended, authentic problems. This interactive workshop is intended for faculty and administrators who wish to advance project-based learning in their courses and curriculum. Participants will learn about designing and scaffolding student project work, supporting students in team settings, evaluating project work, and meeting challenges of limited resources and campus culture. We’ll discuss motivations for project-based learning, its long-term impacts, and the challenges it can present for faculty and students. A backward-design methodology will be used to guide participants toward action plans to move their work forward.

Workshop B: Exploring Entrepreneurial Engagement with FirstGen Students

Additional $75 Fee
Leader:

• Ian Grant, Director, Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center, University of New Hampshire

This workshop will focus on new approaches to engaging First Generation students, generally those who are the first in their family to graduate with a four-year bachelor, in campus-wide innovation and entrepreneurship activities and supporting them in their entrepreneurial aspirations.  This will include the sharing of best practices, idea generation, recent studies, and data collection surrounding FirstGen issues and how entrepreneurship engagement can help impact success.

Workshop C: Preparing Student Entrepreneurs for Breakout Careers: The Entrepreneurs Genome

Additional $75 Fee
Leaders:

• Ted Zoller, Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
• T.W. Lewis, Clinical Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

This session will present the research results of the Entrepreneurs Genome project, a longitudinal study of entrepreneurial careers in preparing students for the future as a founder or growth executive. This research was the basis of the Adams Apprenticeship at UNC and takes a different tack at entrepreneurial education by preparing students for a lifelong entrepreneurial mindset. Session will develop and present a keener understanding of the transition to entrepreneurship in the ways universities can prepare leaders for this transition.