Loyola Innovates
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - March 2019
Spring Hackathon - Rebuilding Together
Students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members worked in teams to practice the basics of user-centered design (or design thinking) to address the question "How Might We share the value of the Rebuilding Together volunteer experience?" Our partner walked away with some strong ideas to implement with volunteers and donors. If you'd like to get involved with Rebuilding Together, visit their website to learn more.
Stay tuned for information on future social hackathons from CI&E!
Know Why and Know How, by Bahram Roughani, Associate Dean for the Natural and Applied Sciences
Developing the entrepreneurial mindset requires active learning. Just as one cannot learn how to ride a bike by watching a bike race, one can’t develop an entrepreneurial mindset unless it is experienced and practiced. The entrepreneurial mindset involves attitudes, skills and behaviors that can greatly enhance academic, personal and professional success. It involves creativity, innovative and critical thinking, problem solving, initiative and self-direction, ability to assess and manage risk, persistence, learning from failure, flexibility, adaptability, ability to recognize needs, recognition of opportunities, marshalling of resources, innovation, implementation of ideas, and creation of value.
The list is long, but developing an entrepreneurial mindset is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for success. KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network), a leader in student entrepreneurship with a focus on STEM fields, suggests that “both skillset and mindset are necessary for students to succeed.” They define the mindset as “the combination of attitudes, motivations, and dispositions” necessary for innovation and entrepreneurship. According to KEEN, when students combine mindset and skillset, they are empowered by the “know-why” attribute in addition to “know-how.” Combining these two factors with the bias toward action is aligned with these words from Thomas Edison: “The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.”
Students with an entrepreneurial mindset are more curious about the changing world. They can make connections from disparate information, and are eager and able to create extraordinary value for themselves and their communities. The entrepreneurial mindset allows students to understand the bigger picture, recognize opportunities, and learn from their mistakes. In other words, nurturing the entrepreneurial mindset is an effective way to achieve Loyola’s mission to “inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.” The relationship between the mindset and skillset are depicted by KEEN as a tandem bicycle, with the rider in charge of steering as the “Mindset,” and the providing the power to move forward as the “Skillset.”
Want to get involved with Lange Innovation Lounge? Email us at innovation@loyola.edu
Open Works, by Eric Muchisky '19
Just a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit Open Works, a makerspace open to anyone eager to embrace their inner creativity. It’s conveniently located just minutes from Loyola on Greenmount Ave. Open Works provides beautiful collaboration, classroom, and conference room spaces aimed at fueling the entrepreneurial spirit and to help creators from around Baltimore to accomplish more. Open Works strives to provide makers and entrepreneurs easy access to tools, knowledge, and the ability to accelerate business and creative ideas.
If you’re one of these folks, some of Open Works’ wide variety of equipment includes:
- 3D Printers
- Digital Fabrication equipment such as CNC Routers
- Metalworking equipment such as grinders, saws, cutters, welders, and more
- Woodworking shop including saws, sanders, a plethora of hand tools, and more
- Computer lab with software such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD, MS Office, 3D Studio Max
- Sewing equipment including a computerized embroidery machine, plenty of sewing machines
- Digital media tools such as Adobe Suite, largescale printers, rollers, and photo backdrop
- Electronics equipment such as soldering, oscilloscopes, DC power supply and more
If you’re interested in learning more about making or using the space for personal and business ventures, Open Works offers services and programs including:
- Maker Membership for basic prototyping equipment, sewing, and electronics
- Builder Membership to gain access to heavy duty workshops
- Pro Membership for access to everything Open Works offers
- Renting a space from which to run your small business!
- Day Pass for those curious to spark their I&E spirit!
- After school programs for early teenagers and early adolescents
- Adult classes for training in software and machines (ex. Photoshop, CNC routers, Plasma cutter)
Whatever your interest, Open Works likely has something for you. With short and longtime commitment options, their memberships and classes allow anybody to engage in the makers culture to the extent they feel comfortable.
Innovation has been a staple of Baltimore’s history. From power drills to the railroad to corks, Baltimore’s makers and inventors have always been able to change the world through their persistence, hard work, and curiosity. Open Works provides the necessary tools for the next generation of entrepreneurs to continue this great tradition. To learn more about Open Works and their services, check them out at www.openworksbmore.com.
Calling all student innovators & entrepreneurs!
Greyhound Group, by Quinn Cosgrave '20
From my experience, I’ve noticed that students are generally underestimated in terms of the value that we can offer businesses - even before we graduate. While we lack the experience of our employers, we also offer a fresh perspective that has yet to be influenced by years of performing a job. With this in mind, I set out to launch The Greyhound Group.
The Greyhound Group is a venture under the newly founded Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, providing consulting services to Baltimore area businesses and non-profits. Our vision is to utilize Loyola talent to provide local businesses with services previously inaccessible or too expensive. We anticipate most of the projects that we take on to surround social media marketing, graphic design, market research, and marketing campaign creation/strategy. Down the road, it is our intention to begin performing for-profit work for Baltimore’s more established businesses, helping them tap into the fresh minds of Loyola students to bring forth unique ideas and unrealized insights.
We are calling on Loyola students from every class and degree program to join The Greyhound Group. Our service offerings to clients are only as strong and diverse as the student talent we can access, so please consider how your background and academic focus can contribute. While student members will not be paid, The Greyhound Group serves to offer invaluable networking and experiences, enabling its members to work as closely on exciting projects as any internship can offer.
Questions about The Greyhound Group? Contact Quinn Cosgrave at Qmcosgrave@loyola.edu
University Innovation Fellows at Stanford
Safe travels to our University Innovation Fellows as they head to Stanford University's d. School this month for their national conference! Jenna Bower, Rachel Jarman, Emily Manzo, and Regina McCoy (all from the class of '21) will have the chance to collaborate with a global network of fellows, attend workshops, and gather inspiration for Loyola's I&E culture on campus.
The University Innovation Fellows program, which LUMD joined in 2017, empowers students to become agents of change at their schools. These student leaders from schools around the world create new opportunities that help their peers develop an entrepreneurial mindset, build creative confidence, seize opportunities, define problems and address global challenges. They serve as advocates for lasting institutional change with academic leaders and represent their schools at national events.
We'll be sure to share a recap of their meeting!
Baltimore-based Podcasts
- Free to Bmore - A podcast of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, this series features conversation with leaders and innovators having a positive impact on Baltimore City.
- Hey Baltimore - stories from the chefs, entrepreneurs, musicians, amateur botanists, Insta-celebs, brain surgeons, policy makers, artists, world-class drinkers (etc.) who shine a light from within our city, out to the world.
- Local Color - a podcast about Baltimore’s artists, entrepreneurs, business owners, community leaders…anyone that’s doing something to tell the story of our great city.
- Out of the Blocks - an immersive listening experience built from a mosaic of voices and soundscapes on the streets of Baltimore.
- PodMed - From Johns Hopkins Medicine, a brief digest of the latest health headlines, covering everything from sleep to the safety of silicone breast implants.
- Section 336 - a personality driven Baltimore sports show, keeping you laughing and entertained while you are learning all that sports geek stuff.
- So, Here’s My Story - the only business podcast that promises wildly useful lessons from the absurd, the poignant and the seemingly irrelevant.
- Stoop Storytelling - bringing together Baltimoreans from all walks of life to tell stories around a dedicated theme.
One Button Studio, by Erin Dunn '21
Have you had a chance to check out the One Button Studio? This mobile station, complete with high quality audio and camera capabilities, has a battery pack so that it can be rolled to other locations within the library. Create a video assignment, practice and review a presentation, record a lecture, and more. A green screen is available upon request from the Help Desk.
This innovative technology was designed by Penn State and is available for Loyola faculty, staff, and students in the Innovation Station at the Library. Be sure to bring a USB flash drive to save your info.
Come in today explore the creative potential with the One Button Studio!