ILROB 3255

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ILROB 3255
Creativity Sprint: An Entrepreneurship Hackathon

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

The ability to shepherd an idea from ideation to development to implementation is an essential skill in today's business environment for entrepreneurs, innovators, and organizational change agents. To this end, this course aims to develop students' abilities to identify problems and generate solutions to real world business and societal challenges. The course focuses on problem identification (understanding the core elements of a presenting problem), idea generation (developing solutions to those problems), and implementation (putting those solutions into practice). The course includes lecture-based content and activities around these topics and features participation in a weekend-long hackathon event that serves as a practicum experience where students will generate, develop, and pitch an idea related to a societal or business challenge.

When Offered Fall.

Outcomes
  • Identify real problems (a.k.a., pain points).
  • Effectively ideate creative solutions, including thinking through the idea's feasability, viability, and novelty.
  • Recognize how technologies and solutions from one industry can be adapted to solve teh pain points of another industry.

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Syllabi:

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Choose one lecture and one project. Combined with: AEM 3255

  • 1.5 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 19834 ILROB 3255   LEC 001

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    • MW Warren Hall B75
    • Oct 16 - Oct 23, 2024

    • Lucas, B

      Stuart, A

    • W Warren Hall B75
    • Oct 30, 2024

    • Lucas, B

      Stuart, A

    • R Warren Hall B75
    • Oct 24, 2024

    • Lucas, B

      Stuart, A

    • F Warren Hall B75
    • Oct 25, 2024

    • Lucas, B

      Stuart, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19835 ILROB 3255   PRJ 601

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person