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

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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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An applied learning intensive, groups tackled a sustainability challenge facing Philabundance, a local hunger relief organization.
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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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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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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:
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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:
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NYC TechStars Blockchain Startup Weekend, 2018
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Philly TechStars Startup Weekend, 2018