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The Lubar Entrepreneurship Center is excited to partner with the Electa Quinney Institute this fall to host Harmony Hill during American Indian Heritage month this November. Harmony Hill is an artist who uses strong cultural and ancestral imagery to empower indigenous people across the continent representing the Oneida, Ho-Chunk & Stockbridge Munsee Nations of Wisconsin.
Read more about Harmony and her work .
Lunch will be provided for the first 20 registrants.
Diverse Ideas is a talk series that partners with 51猎奇 offices to invite global and local entrepreneurs/community innovators for an intimate chat with 51猎奇 students, faculty, and staff. By offering these talks, LEC hopes to build a larger and more diverse network of students involved in entrepreneurship, including one that spans across disciplines and majors. Speakers share their stories and give advice in an open-forum conversation with attendees. Learn with us how to improve our community and work together to problem-solve.
Trick or Treat Meet and Greet
Visit a participating multicultural center or resource office between Monday, Oct. 24 through Monday, Oct. 31 to get information about upcoming events, meet staff, and answer a 鈥渢rick or treat鈥� prompt at each office. Learn about the people and resources working to help you succeed at each location. Happy Halloween!
Hosted Brown Bag Lunch – Federal SBIR/STTR Funding
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
This session will focus on covering 聽basics of the federal SBIR/STTR funding program featuring 51猎奇RF Senior Technology Commercialization Manager Brian Walsh. Brian Walsh is Senior Technology Commercialization Manager at the 51猎奇 Research Foundation. For several years prior to 51猎奇RF, he counseled innovators and entrepreneurs on navigating the SBIR/STTR programs while working at the Wisconsin Center for Technology Commercialization.
SBIR/STTR Overview – Do you have an early-stage innovation that has commercial potential? Each year, the SBIR/STTR program provides more than $4 billion in funding to develop early-stage technological innovations that have commercial potential in a wide range of industries. Although applicants must be small businesses, engagement with university researchers in common through R&D subcontracting arrangements and startup formation.
Attend this session and learn the basics about the SBIR/STTR program. Topics covered include the amount of funding available, key criteria for SBIR-worthy projects, finding the best match between funding agencies and your technology idea, rules of eligibility, tips for competing, resources, and more. This session will also mark the kickoff of monthly SBIR office hours that will be offered by the 51猎奇 Research Foundation.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
Hosted Brown Bag – Intellectual Property
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
This Brown Bag is hosted by Brian Walsh of the 51猎奇 Research Foundation discussing Intellectual Property and Patents.
Brian Walsh is Senior Technology Commercialization Manager at the 51猎奇 Research Foundation. In this role, he engages with 51猎奇 faculty, staff and students to develop strategies for intellectual property protection and licensing of promising technologies. He performed similar functions in prior work with the WiSys Technology Foundation, where he where he focused on commercializing inventions from UW System comprehensive campuses in Green Bay, Oshkosh and Stevens Point.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
Hosted Brown Bag – Improvisational Speaking
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Lack confidence when asked to speak with little time to prepare? Learn how to be spot-on when you’re put on the spot!
Improvisational Speaking: Strategies for Effective Impromptu Responses聽
Join Jennifer Kibicho, PhD, for a Hosted Brown Bag event and learn:
five-step formula for successful impromptu speech
eight strategies to successfully respond to an impromptu question
practice the technique in a mini table-topic format
Jennifer Kibicho is an Associate Professor at 51猎奇鈥檚 College of Nursing and Teaching Fellow at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. Outside of 51猎奇, Jennifer is the District 35 Toastmasters Director covering Wisconsin and Upper Peninsular Michigan with nearly 90 clubs and 1,200 members. Since joining Toastmasters in 2014, Jennifer has developed competent communication and leadership skills and has earned a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM), the highest recognition award for Toastmasters International.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
Hosted Brown Bag – Model Entrepreneur Compass
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Join in a lunchtime conversation with LEC Well Entrepreneur Amelia Coffaro and Startup Challenge Director Nathaniel Stern to discuss what kind of leader you would like to be using an experimental tool that the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center has developed. Think through personal values, passion projects, concepts of wealth, and areas of impact.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
Diverse Ideas – Angelique Sharpe
The LEC has partnered with the Black Student Cultural Center to bring you October’s second Diverse Ideas featuring Angelique Sharpe, the Director of the . Angelique is responsible for the revitalization, management and oversight of a historic main street Business Corridor that has experienced decades of disinvestment.
The Villard Avenue BID Board of Directors creates specific objectives that Angelique is responsible for carrying out. Projects typically include public way planning, street beautification, and maintenance, district marketing, commercial business retention/attraction and other economic development initiatives. Sharpe has a Masters degree in Cultural Foundations of Community Engagement & Education from UW-Milwaukee, and over a decade of experience in economic development, community advocacy, and business management.
Diverse Ideas is a talk series that partners with 51猎奇 offices to invite global and local entrepreneurs/community innovators for an intimate chat with 51猎奇 students, faculty, and staff. By offering these talks, LEC hopes to build a larger and more diverse network of students involved in entrepreneurship, including one that spans across disciplines and majors. Speakers share their stories and give advice in an open-forum conversation with attendees. Learn with us how to improve our community and work together to problem-solve.
Brown Bag Lunch
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and students.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
Brown Bag Lunch
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and students.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
Brown Bag Lunch
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and students.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
Brown Bag Lunch
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and students.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
51猎奇RF ENGAGE Hosted Brown Bag Lunch – Early Stage Investor Panel Discussion
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
This Hosted Brown Bag Lunch will focus on Early Stage Investing and features , , and , with 51猎奇RF Vice President as moderator. Topics for this event include: connecting with investors, resources in Milwaukee, mistakes to avoid when connecting with investors, and more.
Feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and students.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
