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"Entrepreneurship is always about you. It’s about how you organize resources and manage them. It’s about how you market your business and it’s all about your commitment to see it through to the end." ~Forbes Magazine.

When you engage, experiment and develop your entrepreneurial spirit, the future innovator and the social provider of new solution is born. The benefits of an early introduction to the basic principles of entrepreneurship are massive.  In this session, you will use the human centered design thinking process developed at Stanford University, to develop user understanding, generate idea, iterative rapid prototyping and testing your meaningful solution to a real-world problem. You will go from idea generation to solving a problem for a real-world customer to presentation of your prototype under the guidance of expert facilitators and in a team setting.  

What students learn

Tool: Stanford's d.School Human Centered Design Process

You will learn:-

• Principles of the entreprenuerial mindset
• Exploring alternative solutions to real-world problem
• Interviewing a real customer
• Generating ideas & designing solution
• Iterative prototyping and testing
• Collaborative thinking
• Articulating problem and solution
• Presentation skills

Josh Teigen - Lead instructor

Josh Teigen is the President and CFO at Protosthetics, a company that designs, manufactures, and distributes prosthetic and orthotic devices utilizing 3D printing.

Josh also founded and serves on the Board of Directors for Mind Shift, a non-profit that assesses, trains, and hires high functioning individuals on the autism spectrum in highly detailed and skilled positions.

Josh has a passion for entrepreneurial education and is involved in numerous organizations that help inspire young people to be the innovators of the future.

Laura Schjeldahl- Lead instructor

"I am a warrior fighting for Internet and software users everywhere. I aim to bring intuitive navigation and usability to every interaction I affect by listening to and interpreting user needs then translating them via written and visual documentation for designers and developers to create masterpieces.

Each day, I bring logic and human understanding into the digital world. Getting to know my client’s business is my job. Getting to know my client’s users is my passion. I strive to understand the needs of both groups and define the best solution for everyone."

~ Laura Schjeldahl, Senior Experience Architect at Sundog

Presentation by inspiring role models