student ambassadors

Meet NCIIA's new Student Ambassadors!

Submitted by dave on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:54

Meet our 2011-12 student ambassadors!

 

Keep up with innovation on campus - through the eyes of NCIIA's student ambassadors

Submitted by dave on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:29

Our 13 new student ambassadors report on activities on their campuses. Tons of information about innovation and entrepreneurship... Read their blog!

What's happening on campus?

Submitted by dave on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 12:54

 

NCIIA's student ambassadors are at work on thirteen campuses across the country. You can follow their activities--and see what's happening on campus--on NCIIA's student ambassador blog.

NCIIA's Student Ambassadors 2011-12

Introducing our 2011-12 Student Ambassadors!

Thirteen exceptional student entrepreneurs will be hard at work on campuses across the country, inspiring their classmates and peers to take great ideas for socially beneficial technologies towards market.

Learn more about NCIIA's Student Ambassador program. And follow their activities here.

U. Tennessee Health Science

Dee Helton

 

Columbia University

Dmitriy Timerman

Wash. State University

Jade Patterson

U. Southern California

Jared Goodner

Oregon State University 

Jennifer Villalobos

 

University  California - LA

Jerrid Matthews

Boston University

Joseph McMahon

Wake Forest University 

Lucy Lan

Art Center Col. of Design 

Mariana Prieto

University of Texas-Austin

Mariel Bolhouse

  
 

U. California - Berkeley

Omoju Miller

Harvard University

Paxton Maeder-York

New York University

Samantha Smith

    

 

 

 

 

 

Student Ambassador Eden Full wins $100,000 Thiel fellowship

Submitted by dave on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 15:26

Eden Full, one of NCIIA's first student ambassadors, has been awarded a $100,000 Thiel fellowship to pursue her business idea, the Sun Saluter. Eden, a sophomore at Princeton, has developed a solar tracking system that rotates solar panels to improve their efficiency. Read more at BusinessWeek.

For NCIIA's perspective on university students creating innovations and launching ventures, take a look at this article.

And, if being a student ambassador and inspiring entreprenership among students on campus sounds like you, apply for our 2011-12 cohort now!

 

 

 

NCIIA student ambassadors launch ambitious events on campuses

Submitted by dave on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:29
 

NCIIA's student ambassadors continue to galvanise entrepreneurship on campus! Over the next two days, more than 400 student innovators and entrepreneurs will attend two NCIIA-supported Invention to Venture workshops.

Friday, April 8, TedX Columbia Engineering School. Organized by Mayank Yadav (right) and team. 300 registrants, 100 on the waiting list.

Saturday, April 9, Invention to Venture at Wake Forest University. Organized by Billy Oelsner (left) and team. 100+ registrants.

Want this energy on your campus? We're recruiting for our 2011/12 student ambassador cohort. Read more and apply!

 

Student Ambassadors at work: Princeton TEDx draws 250 people

Submitted by dave on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 14:35

 

 

Observing that social entrepreneursip activities had a low profile on her campus, NCIIA student ambassador and Princeton University sophomore Eden Full decided action was needed.

Last Friday (Dec. 5), 200 people attended the TEDx conference organized by Eden and her team. The event was designed to raise awareness of social entrepreneurship, and to promote opportunities on campus for students.

The event was a huge success - as reported by The Daily Princetonian.

Student Ambasador program manager and venture mentor Humera Fasihuddin spoke at the event - take a look at her slide deck about NCIIA and what and who we support.

 

Networker extraordinaire

Submitted by dave on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 15:04

Meet Trevor Owens from New York University, one of NCIIA's 14 new student ambassadors and, according to New York's observer.com, a mighty powerful networker!

More about our student ambassadors at Inventor Spot.

 

 

 

 

Billy Oelsner - Wake Forest University

Updates

November 2010

  • Organizing an Invention to Venture workshop on April 9.
  • Organized talks with local entrepreneurs, connecting them to students, focused on sustainable business models, managing a venture, and using entrepreneurship to combat rural 'flight'.
  • Hosted a 'crash course' on intellectual propertyfor undergraduates.
  • Hosting The Everyday Innovation Exhibition, a joint event between NCIIA and E-Society for Global Entrepreneurship. The event
    showcases the creative efforts of students working toward improving the lives of individuals in today's society while also rethinking conventional designs to advance technologies in the developing world.

Bio

Billy Oelsner, an undergraduate at Wake Forest University, has merged his passion for science with his entrepreneurial drive. After taking a graduate seminar on Biometrics taught by WFU’s Health Science Graduate School and Calloway Business School, Billy Oelsner launched a venture that was inspired by how organic systems harness and utilize wind energy and applied these biophysical principles towards creating more efficient, affordable green energy. After pitching the idea to WFU’s Health Science Technology Transfer and Asset Management, Billy received grant money and access to Wake’s Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials lab as well the Center for Design and Innovation for extensive R&D. Understanding the importance of the Global Economy, Billy Oelsner studied abroad in Vietnam examining the intersection of politics and entrepreneurship in an emerging market, studying social-cultural differences that influence the operation of businesses in the east, and investigating existing social entrepreneurial ventures that are making a positive difference in Vietnam.

He has also spent two years studying the effects of Ketamine on brain development at the Bowman Gray school of Medicine, culminating in a co authorship of a publication in Neuroscience and presentation at the SYNAPSE Neuroscience Conference. Furthermore, he is the recipient of two departmental scholarships in German and Biology, as well as Vice President of Wake’s National Pre-med Honor Society’s spring 2010 class. Following Wake’s motto, Pro Humanitate, Billy Oelsner has lead fundraisers for the Community Care Center, a non-profit clinic, and the United Way, as well as volunteering at the Sticht Center for Aging and Rehabilitation and Barrier Island Free Medical Clinic. Billy Oelsner hopes to continue his education by perusing degrees in medicine and business.

Billy's vision

With one foot in the world of science and the other firmly planted in the world of entrepreneurship, I believe I can bring innovation at Wake Forest to a new level, by bridging the gaps between these disciplines, by informing students of the resources that are available to them, and by showing them from personal experience the process and procedure to make their concepts a reality. I look forward to utilizing NCIIA’s resources in helping to create a stimulating environment for student inventors. Let’s bring innovation to a new level at Wake Forest!

Roland Fomundam - Northeastern University

Updates

November 2010

  • Held an Invention to Venture workshop, with 70 attendees.
  • Started a new monthly entrepreneurship speaker series.

Bio

Roland is a graduate student in the School of Technological Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He holds a BS/BA in Biology and Business Administration from Northeastern University as well. Prior to coming to Northeastern University, he attended Bristol Community College in Fall River where he founded the first Science club to promote science awareness on campus. The club also organized science fares, inviting and integrating initiatives from local schools. His entrepreneurial ability started at age 17 when he co founded, Chapman Biomedical, a sales and distribution network of generic medicine to rural clinics and hospitals in Cameroon, W. Africa. He acclaims himself as a youth champion; with a strong believe that today’s challenges can be collectively transformed by the collaboration of youth across the globe.

When not in class, he spends time working for Youth Action Africa, a nonprofit organization he founded with a mission to seek innovative ways to alleviate Africa’s myriad crises of health and poverty. He also enjoys travelling and interacting with diverse populations. This has rewarded him with the knowledge of speaking  up to 7 languages. Besides traveling, Roland enjoys playing soccer, ping pong and being an apprentice at a local golf course.

Roland's vision

Drawing inspirations from Peter Drucker’s assertion that, ‘Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth’, and technology being the catalyst to bond both concepts, entrepreneurs can provide new approaches needed to hasten the process of development and well being of the entire nation.

By combining innovative ideas from individuals and investments from public, private, and civil society organizations, such entrepreneurs can guide complex systems and institutions toward their goals. As a student ambassador for NCIIA, I strive to create a system that will ignite innovative ideas from all disciplines to provide tentative solutions to resolving complex global issues.

 

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