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2021 Innovation Fellows, SLOP, Film Festival Opening Night. Photo: Shayna Nickel

Throughout the year HIP provides a series of extra-curricular programs and workshops with a focus on human-centered design and problem solving, developing innovation and entrepreneurial frameworks. These opportunities encourage and allow for interdisciplinary collaborations inviting exploration, discussion, testing, and iteration - skills students can use to move innovative endeavors forward.

  • Building the Model

    As students or groups look to paths of implementation, this workshop series addresses fundamental entrepreneurial skills and culminates with a planning document to move ideas beyond campus.

  • Creative Development Intensives

    Applied learning or learning by doing is a catalyst for inspiration in hands on projects and hackathons throughout the year. In addition, HIP student are encouraged to attend off-campus conferences supporting their interests in the context of innovation.

  • Innovation Paradigm Series

    Collaborations with Haverford Centers and academic departments highlight innovative non-profits, social entrepreneurship, and innovation models in the Philadelphia area and surrounding community.

Past examples of programming include:

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    Professional Skills Workshop: Data Analytics

    Students learned to analyze, interpret and suggest strategy - important employee skills in any professional pursuit - whether entrepreneurial, non-profit, public or private sector.

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    Annual Tri-Co Hackathon

    Within 12 hours, students mobilize around project ideas and form small teams, engaging in collaborative learning around digital technology and programming.

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    Introduction to Wearables

    Dr. Harris facilitated a hands-on intro to circuits and sewing basics and discussion around wearables past, present, and future, as well as ethics around biodata collection and usage.

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  • Impact Challenge (with Philabundance Office of Sustainability)

    An applied learning intensive, groups tackled a sustainability challenge facing Philabundance, a local hunger relief organization.

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  • She Started It: Women in Entrepreneurship

    Tri-Co & Villanova panel of women entrepreneurs. Students engaged with guests to ask questions about entrepreneurial work, industry or for insights into their own ideas.

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    IOT (Internet of Things) Mini-Hackathon

    Students worked on connecting to an 'Internet of Things' (IOT) gateway in order to send and receive data from across the web.

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    Citizen Science Workshop

    A citizen-science event, students learned to use Zooniverse, the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.

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Other events have included:

  • Paper Prototyping Workshop (Co-sponsor: Maker Arts Space)
    An introduction to using low-fidelity, cheap, and accessible materials to begin to explore and test ideas.

  • Learning from Founders
    Students both get a view into entrepreneurial and innovative work, as well as receive insights and suggested next-steps on their own proposals and interests.

  • Tri-Co Startup Weekend
    An immersive business start-up weekend exploring and learning an approach to the startup process with an emphasis on social impact. Teams of 6-8 members build a vision for a social impact related venture.

  • Science Improv Communications Workshop
    Students in the sciences explored successful and effective communication of work and goals to others through applied improvisational techniques.

  • Leveraging Off-Campus Learning Opportunities
    An active innovation and startup ecosystem in Philadelphia and regional areas provides off-campus opportunities specific and broad student interests.

Students have participated in:

  • NYC TechStars Blockchain Startup Weekend, 2018

  • Philly TechStars Startup Weekend, 2018

    • HaverBlog: 54 Hours, One Idea
    • Technically Philly: Quick biz inspiration: Peep these 9 ideas from Startup Weekend Philadelphia
  • Yale Healthcare Hackathon, 2019

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