Friday, June 19, 2020

Ventures Compete At Babson College

Ventures Compete At Babson College by: Nathan Allen on April 22, 2015 | 0 Comments Comments 115 Views April 22, 2015The competitors of the graduate challenge. Courtesy photoThis past Thursday (April 16), teams of undergraduate and graduate students as well as alumni competed $20,000 grand prizes in the Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action (BETA) challenge. The event, which is in its fourth year, is hosted at Babson College’s Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.Three semifinalist teams in each category presented their ventures to a panel of 10 judges and one from each category was selected for a $20,000 prize. â€Å"The teams did not make it easy for the judges,† says Janet Strimaitis, executive director of the Blank Center. She said the reason why is students this year did a great job of tapping into networks outside of the private business school.â€Å"We don’t have engineering and science, but the students have gotten ideas outside of consume r products,† Strimaitis explains. â€Å"They’ve tapped into networks outside of Babson to tackle big problems. We had teams in the clean energy space. Another team tapped into the clean hands issue in medical environments.†Indeed, they had ventures producing everything from a hand-hygiene measurement and analytic platform for medical facilities to a provider of clean energy to slums in developing countries to a tea company.A RICH ENTREPRENEURIAL UPBRINGINGWhile the winners of the undergraduate and graduate categories are examples of the diversity of ideas in the challenge, they both personally come from a lineage of entrepreneurship. Hanson Grant, a junior at Babson, had the beginnings of his winning idea when he started a t-shirt company in high school. â€Å"I was experimenting with adhesives and dry erase coding, trying to invent a dry erase t-shirt,† Grant recalls.When Grant graduated from high school he left the t-shirt company behind. But the entrepr eneurial spirit stayed close. Both of his parents are entrepreneurs and self-employed and Grant wanted to follow their paths. He applied to a few East Coast schools but when he was accepted to his â€Å"reach school† of Babson, he decided to go.It was during prof. Len Green’s Ultimate Entrepreneurial Challenge course when the second piece of his winning idea was put together. In the elective course, students are given ordinary objects and told to come up with out-of-the-box ideas with them.â€Å"Our group was given a mug and told to make it into something entrepreneurial,† Grant says. â€Å"We made it into an optimism mug by cutting it off half way so it was always half full.†Hanson Grant is a junior at Babson and won the undergraduate challenge. Courtesy photoTHEY WENT BANANAS OVER ITAs Grant was brainstorming ideas, he wanted a writing surface. So he took what he had learned from adhesives and dry erase surfaces and created a clear sheet of dry erase su rface with an adhesive back. He put it on his dorm room desk. Soon others in the dorm started taking notice and asking about the product.â€Å"They went bananas over it,† Grant says.Suddenly, Grant had a product and a market. He called it Think Board. He soon realized college students don’t have a lot of money so he started reaching out to businesses. Companies can put their own logos on the Think Boards they but in their offices. Finally, Grant partnered with a local middle school to put Think Boards on the desks of students.And that’s the market where Grant sees the most room for growth. He’s spent the past few weeks developing the product based on recommendations from teachers and students and will soon be introducing the product to other schools. â€Å"We hope to be in five middle schools by the end of the summer and 50 schools before fall semester begins and then nation-wide by 2016,† says Grant. Page 1 of 212 »

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Essay Theme For a Catholic College Student

Essay Theme For a Catholic College StudentA good essay theme for a Catholic college student will help her show her scholarship and talent in an academic environment. Read on if you want to know how to choose the right essay topic for a Catholic college student.The question that you should ask yourself is whether or not you are writing your essay for school or for your personal interests? If you are writing it for school, you might want to make sure that you have a topic that will interest a wide range of students. If you are writing it for your personal interest, the same applies. It is best to choose the topic that has a large number of people interested in it.A theme for an essay has a key element. This is called the motif. Themes for essays are basically the central theme or interest of the paper. They have to be appealing and meaningful to readers. If your subject does not have an appealing motif, you are just going to have a bunch of paragraphs about your hobby and/or interest w ithout the ability to connect the theme with your topic.Themes should be thought out carefully. There is no sense in just scribbling something down randomly. Your choice of theme must be based on your objective.Your theme should be closely connected to your topic. You need to establish this connection. The best way to do this is to write about why you chose to focus on the theme and the area you want to cover. In addition, you need to be sure that it fits well with your theme.Always remember that the main point of your essay should be to make your readers understand why you choose the theme that you chose. Otherwise, you are just spreading yourself thin and forcing them to follow your every word. This is not a great strategy.In order to give your readers a reason to read through your paper, make sure that your theme is closely linked to your topic. If the theme is your hobby, then your theme should be your interest. This will make it easier for you to explain the general topic of yo ur paper.A good essay theme for a Catholic college student is all about having a well-rounded and relevant paper. It should have enough content to satisfy the curiosity of your reader. Do not give up until you find a theme that works for you.