Monday, October 5, 2009
The Technology Entrepreneur Center is hosting the University of Illinois I2P (Idea to Product) competition, a unique academic competition looking at ideas at their earliest stage. Online entries for the Illinois campus round of I2P are due by October 12, 2009, with up to ten student ideas being selected on October 22, 2009.
More information about this competition and online submission may be found (here).
Monday, October 5, 2009
DesignMatters 3 is hosting Jan Chipchase of Nokia today, October 5th 2009, at 5:30pm in Wohlers Hall, Room 141 (1206 S. 6th). The event is free.
Jan is a human-behavior researcher and specializes in taking teams of concept/industrial designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists, and ethnographers into the field to better understand how people use, or might use, Nokia telecom products. Visit the designmatters3 site for more information.
Monday, October 5, 2009
The Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) and the College of Engineering would like to send up to 25 students to Silicon Valley during winter break for a 10 day technology entrepreneurship workshop. TEC is holding informational lunch sessions this week as follows:
Wednesday, October 7, 2009: 301 CSL(Coordinated Science Lab), 12-1pm
Thursday, October 8, 2009: 1109 Siebel, 12-1pm
Friday, October 9, 2009: 166 Wohler, 12-1pm
More information may be found (here).
Monday, October 5, 2009
iFoundry Student Advisor, Lisa Mazzocco, is among a team of students from UIUCs Office for Technical Consulting Resources (OTCR) who has won a $50,000 grant from the Ford College Community Challenge, an initiative of the Ford Motor Company Fund.
OTCR is a student-run consulting firm and the team will use this grant to build an online database to show the energy efficiency of rental properties in the community.
