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January 4-10, 2009 - New York City
January 26-27, 2009 - Oberlin and Cleveland
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Application Deadline: November 10, 2008
Every winter term students do tremendously creative projects. The Entrepreneurship Scholars Program affords students the opportunity to pursue those projects with the addition of a seminar week designed to support them in challenging, stretching, and realizing their ideas.
We support students who have a wide variety of goals ranging from starting grassroots organizations, offering a new product or service, launching a tour, commercializing a discovery, and beyond. We look for students who have the passion and drive to make something happen, and can benefit from having the time, skills, and contacts to explore their idea during winter term.
By participating in the Entrepreneurship Scholars Program, students will:
- Engage with the challenges of realizing their idea through hands-on workshops, case studies, lectures, and a targeted shadow day;
- Gain familiarity with the issues entrepreneurs encounter in planning, financing, and launching an endeavor;
- Learn more about their field of interest by shadowing an entrepreneur for a day;
- Expand their original concept through conversations with peers, advisors, and lecturers;
- Become acquainted with a network of alumni and other professionals who can provide feedback and guidance on their idea;
- Make concrete steps toward realizing their creative idea.
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Primary funding provided by Stewart Kohl '77 and Béla Szigethy '77. Stewart and Béla work together as the Co-CEO's of The Riverside Company, a private equity firm specializing in premier companies at the smaller end of the middle market across North America, Europe and Asia.
Additional funding provided by Steven Roth '77, an independent marketing consultant based outside Boston, and from the Creativity & Leadership Project (part of the Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program).
This program would also not be possible without the generous in-kind donations from many alumni and friends of the college. |
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In order to receive full credit for winter term, Scholars must fulfill the following obligations:
- Attend all sessions in New York City from January 4-10, and in Cleveland and Oberlin on January 26 and 27.
- Choose a mentor and consult with that mentor each week of winter term. The mentor should be someone who can best help the Scholar explore an idea. Mentors may be chosen from outside of Oberlin.
- Contact two additional advisors to discuss some aspect of the proposed idea, and write a brief paragraph on the interaction.
- Complete a 1,500 word description and analysis of the progress made on the idea.
- Give a 5-7 minute presentation on the idea at the end of winter term.
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- Most meals from January 4-10, 26, 27;
- All travel within New York City from January 4-10;
- Six nights of lodging, starting on January 4;
- $150 stipend for travel to and from New York City.
Students with significant financial need will have access to additional stipends to support expenses not covered during the seminar week, including travel to New York City.
The Entrepreneurship Scholars Program does not provide any financial support for activities from January 11-25. Scholars should consider covering their expenses through the following resources:
- The Creativity Fund
- CIGSIE (Conservatory and Double-Degree students only)
- Alumni housing. Advising on this process is available through the Office of Career Services.
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