{"id":8998,"date":"2011-10-05T19:49:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:49:00","slug":"celebrate-student-innovation-video-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/10\/celebrate-student-innovation-video-included\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Student Innovation (VIDEO included)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 20, a consortium of universities will come together for a singular Innovation Connection networking event highlighting, and rewarding, the accomplishments of student innovators.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NmY0gTrhhVo\">Watch a video of student entrepreneurs here<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NmY0gTrhhVo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Innovation Connection is the brainchild of a small group of entrepreneurial-minded academics and innovators. Since 2009, the group has presented monthly networking functions aimed at catalyzing business collaborations among university researchers and students, business development advisors, intellectual property lawyers, incubation experts, personnel from the UConn R&amp;D Corporation and the Office of Technology Commercialization, and state economic and business development offices.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s event, hosted by Central Connecticut State University\u2019s School of Business and the Institute for Technology and Business Development, will take place at the CCSU campus and include a seminar on \u201cSelling to Investors, Customers &amp; the Government,\u201d followed by a student poster competition.<\/p>\n<p>During the first-ever student poster competition, the top five student innovators from each of the participating colleges and universities will discuss their bright commercial idea informally with attendees, and visitors will \u201cinvest\u201d in their top picks using \u201cmock\u201d currency. Top vote getters will proceed to the November Innovation Connection (to be hosted by ECSU), where they will compete for the opportunity to receive in-kind support and possible seed funding.\u00a0 All of the student posters will be hosted electronically on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctihub.com\/show\/innovation-connection---october-student-entrepreneur-seminar-poster-show-and-social-networking\">iHub.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The collaborating universities are the University of Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University and the University of Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Bienemann, Entrepreneur in Residence in the School of Engineering at UConn, said \u201cWe are thrilled to be taking the Innovation Connection to the next level.\u00a0 This is the first time that Connecticut\u2019s leading colleges and universities have collaborated to celebrate the ingenuity of our college age students. We encourage everyone to come and meet these bright young innovators, network and explore the CCSU campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"\" lang=\"\" scope=\"\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"><strong>Date:<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"><strong><\/strong>Thursday, October 20th, 2011<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"\" lang=\"\" scope=\"\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"><strong>Location<\/strong>:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\">Central Connecticut State University <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccsu.edu\/page.cfm?p=1378\">CCSU<\/a> (1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT\u00a0 06050; 860-832-2278)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"\" lang=\"\" scope=\"\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"><strong>Parking<\/strong>:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\">The Student Center lot or the Student Center Garage (off Ella Grasso Blvd.) can be used for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccsu.edu\/page.cfm?p=4191\">Parking<\/a> (click on parking tab within interactive campus map)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"\" lang=\"\" scope=\"\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"><strong>Agenda<\/strong>:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\">3-4 p.m. Selling to Investors, Customers and the Government seminar<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\">4-6 p.m. Student Innovation Poster Competition (Constitution Room, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> floor of Memorial Hall) and Networking<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>To learn more, please see the networking event <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.engr.uconn.edu\/pdfs\/event-693-09-30-2011-final%20oct%20flyer.pdf\">flyer<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Please <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.engr.uconn.edu\/rsvp\/index.php?rsvpId=850\">RSVP<\/a> for this event.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 20, a consortium of universities will come together for a singular Innovation Connection networking event highlighting, and rewarding, the accomplishments of student innovators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":224977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-8998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 04:02:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224983,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/224983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}