The students have a glove that interacts with the Oculus Rift.
“This is the company that was founded in Irvine and was just purchased at a huge price by Facebook.
“For example, the team ‘Phoenix’ demonstrated their application of a gaming glove for the new Oculus Rift virtual reality “goggles” ,” she said. An important outcome of Entrepreneurship Week is more collaboration among the students from CMC and from the other Claremont Colleges.”Īmong the week’s highlights, Professor Smith cited a strong participation and collaboration from students across the 5Cs.
“The workshops and discussions provide students with the tools and analytical framework for evaluating their ideas for ventures and to improve upon them. “The CIE’s goal is to provide opportunities for students to network with each other and with alumni,” she said. Professor Smith said Entrepreneurship Week started last year as a joint venture between CIE and KLI as an effort to highlight student interest in entrepreneurship by giving students a chance to showcase their innovations and their own ventures (the Startup Fair) and to combine that with educational/networking opportunities for students and alumni such as workshops, panel discussions and the Idea Jam, among other things. Many of these students are working so tirelessly on building their companies that their efforts often fly under the radar, so it was great to have an opportunity for them to share with people what they've been doing.”Īccording to Janet Kiholm Smith, Von Tobel Professor of Economics at the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and Director of CIE, more than 100 budding entrepreneurs participated at various times during the week, with many students attending several events. “I really enjoyed seeing students' excitement while showcasing their ventures at the Startup Fair. “I think Entrepreneurship Week is a phenomenal opportunity for students as well as other members of our community, so I was thrilled that the combined efforts of the organizers, student entrepreneurs, panelists, judges and speakers were able to help bring that back again at this year's events,” said Tyler Sonnemaker ’15, Student Director and Co-Founder of CIE and Managing Editor of CMC Forum. The week concluded with the Innovative Startup Award (ISA) Final presentations and the 5C Hackathon. The results are in and it looks like Entrepreneurship Week (April 7-11) across the 5Cs has staying power and in the words of one attendee is proof that “entrepreneurial energy is continuing to flourish in the CMC community.”Ĭo-sponsored by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) along with various organizations including the Kravis Leadership Institute (KLI), Entrepreneurship Week featured a variety of events, including Athenaeum lunches with Dave Capper (inventor of toothbrush that plays pop tunes) and a panel of entrepreneurs that discussed how their diverse backgrounds brought them to become entrepreneurs, Start-up Fair, featuring student ventures across the 5Cs, and a student favorite, the Campus Improvement Idea Jam.
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