Hiram College is a member of the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium (EEC), a consortium of nine public and private colleges and universities committed to providing practical, experiential and theoretical entrepreneurship education to Northeast Ohio college students of all disciplines. The nine member schools are: Ashland University, Baldwin Wallace College, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, John Carroll University, Hiram College, Kent State University, Lake Erie College and University of Akron.
Through the Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship’s active membership in the EEC, Hiram students have the opportunity to participate in the EEC’s ideaLabs competition and Entrepreneurship Immersion Week (EIW).
ideaLabs is an idea competition where students from across the region compete for recognition as the regional champion. ideaLabs encourages all students, from all disciplines to think about new venture ideas and applying the feasibility study methodology.
Jennifer Godwin (WEC ’09) represented Hiram at the ideaLabs2010, and competed against students from Ashland University, Baldwin Wallace College, John Carroll University, Kent State University, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin and College of Wooster. Jennifer won first place with her venture, Future Without Flares.
Jenifer Godwin '09 at idealabs 2010
EIW is an intensive one-week, academic immersion experience for undergraduates from all disciplines to immerse themselves in the skills needed to help them develop new business concepts and apply these skills a team-based business concept competition. Teams of five students from each of the EEC member institutions come together for one week in August at a host school. EIW recently received the 2010 Innovative Pedagogy Award from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
This summer the event was hosted at Baldwin Wallace College from August 8-13. Members of Hiram’s 2010 EIW Team included: Dan Fakhoury ’13, Adam Miller ’13, Nicole Spencer ’11, Sydney Vore ’11, and Kara Vantaggi ’12. Team Hiram took first place in the idea competition with their idea of Stir-Ups. They received a prize package of cash and gifts.
Hiram Team Takes First at EIW 2010
Students interested in participating in EIW2011 should contact Kay Molkentin MolkentinKF@hiram.edu , Director of the Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship for more details.