Innovation Program: Test Your Imagination
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Location: Koshland Science Museum
Time: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Cost: $7/$5 for students
Age Range: 13+
Innovation. New ideas. What can you do with an everyday item?
People drive the future, from economics to solutions to world-wide problems. For its part in Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Koshland Science Museum presents a mini-challenge to participants in this unique public program.
As part of the program, participants will get to test their own hands and minds with a mini-challenge. Come with your own team, or be ready to be paired with a few strangers and make some new friends. We will provide an item, a task, and give you 30 minutes to plan and create. Afterwards, teams can share their results. The evening will be capped by a presentation from the Koshland/Singapore Team.
The evening will start with a few words from Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Development at the Kaufmann Foundation.
The Global Innovation Tournament:
During Global Entrepreneurship Week, Stanford University organizes a global Innovation Tournament, engaging students in various dimensions of entrepreneurship. An "Apprentice-style" competition, the tournament is open to student teams from around the world.
For its part in the 2008 Global Innovation Tournament the Koshland/Singapore team was challenged to create as much value as possible using a particular item. Value can be measured on any scale and comes from actually implementing ideas and delivering results.
Students from Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) of Singapore and the Academy of Science (AOS) of Loudoun County Public Schools Virginia worked long hours and across several time zones to complete the chellenge. Find out what the mystery item was and what the students did with their item at this very special program.
This event is part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Find out more at Unleashing Ideas.
Event is co-hosted with HacDC, Make:DC and DorkbotDC.
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