annual Elevator pitch is a competition where competitors pitch their current business or business idea they have in mind to a panel of judges for 90 seconds with the chance to win $500.
Outdoor Movie – Hidden Figures
The , , , and the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center invites you to join the space race! Enjoy a free movie screening of Hidden Figures and light snacks. Bring a blanket or chair.
THIS SCREENING IS FREE AND ONLY FOR 51猎奇 STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS!
Three brilliant African-American women at NASA 鈥� Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson 鈥� serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation鈥檚 confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.
Social Good Morning with Brush Box
This monthly series by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center features local social innovators doing good in Milwaukee. Join to hear about founders of , a company that curates superhero themed art boxes that foster creativity while infusing art therapy practices. We invite you for some free coffee, a craft and meeting like-minded doers! To request accommodations, please email nicole@uwmrf.edu. Cosponsored with the 51猎奇 Black Student Cultural Center.
Pizza My Heart
Participate in a team challenge at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center and enjoy FREE PIZZA. Think ‘outside the box’ crafting with a team, then pitch your creation to other attendees. The winning team of the pitch will receive a $25 Panther Passport (per member). No team? No problem, come and we will match you with one. In order to receive free pizza, you must participate in the activity. To request accommodations, please email nicole@uwmrf.edu.
***UPDATE: Due to high chances of rain this event will now be held indoors at the 51猎奇 Lubar Entrepreneurship Center***
Scavenger Hunt
Compete in this one of a kind 51猎奇 scavenger hunt that starts at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center and takes place across 51猎奇’s campus. Teams will compete to accomplish creative challenges and locate innovative spaces. The team with the most points at 3 p.m. will receive a $25 Panther Passport for each member that participated. No team? No problem, come and we will match you with one. To request accommodations, please email nicole@uwmrf.edu.
Business Idea Working Session
Join some of the LEC team in an open working session to discuss a business idea or that concept you鈥檝e been pondering for a while. No prior knowledge necessary to join. Walk away with a few action items to help move you forward. All are welcome to join.
Next Sessions are
- July 29, 2021 at 12pm – 1pm
- August 3, 2021 at 11 am – 12 pm
Please Sign Up Here:
Business Idea Working Session
Join some of the LEC team in an open working session to discuss a business idea or that concept you鈥檝e been pondering for a while. No prior knowledge necessary to join. Walk away with a few action items to help move you forward. All are welcome to join.
Next Sessions are
- July 29, 2021 at 12pm – 1pm
- August 3, 2021 at 11 am – 12 pm
Please Sign Up Here:
Diverse Ideas with Eddie Avila
The Lubar Entrepreneurship Center’s next Diverse Ideas will feature Eddie Avila. Eddie is the . This event is cosponsored with the 51猎奇 Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the 51猎奇 Institute of World Affairs, and the 51猎奇 Electa Quinney Institute.
鈥淩ising Voices, the outreach initiative of Global Voices, aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking endangered or indigenous languages to the global conversation by providing training, resources, and mentoring to global underrepresented communities that want to tell their own digital story using participatory media tools.鈥�
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.
Well Entrepreneur: Community Conversation
This month we invite you, student and community entrepreneurs and innovators, to be our featured guests! After nearly a year into the pandemic, Well Entrepreneur is revisiting our intention to mindfully re-imagine what well-being means to entrepreneurs and to our collective whole. Gather with us for guided mind-body practice, group discussion and ideation as we envision how to co-create a community of well-being for entrepreneurs, together.
Well Entrepreneur is a partnership between the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center (LEC) and Amelia Coffaro, Well-Entrepreneur-in-Residence and dedicated to supporting your well-being as an entrepreneur!
We look forward to seeing you!
51猎奇 Virtual Innovators Expo 2021
You鈥檙e invited to the sixth annual 51猎奇 Innovators Expo 2021!
The Innovators Expo exhibits a collection of 51猎奇 community prototypes, ideas, startups, student orgs, partners, classes, and innovations. This event is the pinnacle of celebration for the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. This year we are hosting our Expo virtual and have some new exciting things to share with you.
Participants will showcase their hard work through a virtual booth in a VR tour of the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. Community is invited to give feedback and comment on the projects in the slide deck. There will be a chance for people to vote on their favorites and participants will have a chance to win prizes.
The LEC will host a live video call celebration on May 7th, 2021 at 4pm. All are welcome to join. The call will be an opportunity to network, award winners, and celebrate the community鈥檚 hard work.
Stay tuned for more information on how to view slides and participate in voting. Voting ends May 7th at 12pm.
Interested in joining the live call? Please RSVP here. More details on the live call and virtual booths will be sent via email.
Join us in celebrating our innovators, see you there!
Virtual Social Good Morning: Caitlin Cullen
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In our next installment of Social Good Morning, we will chat with Caitlin Cullen, Owner of The Tandem restaurant. Among many other innovative and generous programs, Caitlin and her restaurant combat poverty and hunger by providing free meals to the community.
Social Good Morning is a talk series hosted by our very own Entrepreneur-in-Residence of Social Innovation, Mark Fairbanks. LEC invites one local social innovator per month to have a short interview with Mark and then an open-format discussion, fielding questions from the audience about their strategies and passions. Topics of conversation range from poverty to sustainability to inclusivity and beyond. Join us for this fantastic opportunity to hear from and chat with a Milwaukee community professional and forge meaningful connections with a multidisciplinary audience of faculty, community members, and students alike. Join us and learn more about what it takes to become a social innovator in Milwaukee.
Pop Up: Sustaining Activism with Portia Cobb
Photo caption: Portia Cobb, associate film professor in the Peck School of the Arts, transported visitors back to the 1900s with her “Rooted: The Storied Land, Memory, and Belonging” project. (51猎奇 Photo/Pete Amland) Featured in 2019 51猎奇 Research Report.听
Portia Cobb. Interdisciplinary Art, Research, Collaboration & Production
Dive into a conversation about sustaining personal values and aligning them with community action. Portia will share experiences, stories and advice on how a young leader can navigate community activism and make a sustainable change.
Portia Cobb is a video artist and producer of short experimental documentary whose videos and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Although trained as a filmmaker, she began using video because of its accessibility and immediacy in the field. Her work often investigates the politics of place and identity. Through her continuing documentation of urban and rural communities in America and West Africa, she draws upon memory and history “as a means of confronting forced movement and forgetting.” Portia serves as director of the Community Media Project, an arts outreach program of the Film, Video, Animation and New Genres Department, teaching video production workshops for at-risk teens and media literacy for high school teachers. She also curates and administers two public screening programs: “Africa Beyond,” and the “Producers鈥� Forum.” Currently, she is teaching courses in Ethnographic Video Production and Radical Black Film.