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Innovation York
What is Entrepreneurial Thinking? â—? A way of thinking that enables you to overcome challenges, be decisive, and accept responsibility for your outcomes. It is a constant need to improve your skills, learn from your mistakes, and take continuous action on your ideas. â—? A willingness to revisit ideas, to rethink, to connect with others for solutions, to examine different perspectives. â—? Applying this thinking to solving specific problems with real-life impact.
What do we need to survive and thrive in this disruptive world? A combination of these four characteristics: • Education • Intelligence (IQ) and Problem Solving • Social skills or the Emotional Quotient (EQ) • Drive and Energy….and these days resilience to thrive in the ever-changing world • Initiative, Creativity and Accountability • What does that mean for our students?
TMS Schulich Innovation & Entrepreneurial Experience
AMAZING EXPERIENCE
What’s the why? Opportunity to develop key skills/competencies
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Deep dive into SDGs – global and local context
Building a network of support
Peer/national interactions
SEEC certificate
A fun immersive experience (not camp or summer school)
There is no homework, there are no tests, there are no grades or marks assigned. The outcome is in the experience: The learning over the two weeks + a Schulich certificate that has great resume value + networking and building connections + fun
2021 Focus • The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are the framework. • For 2021, we will focus on Homelessness – from a global and local perspective • All students accepted into the program will work in small groups to develop solutions to address homelessness which touches on many of the SDGs: poverty, hunger, wellbeing, decent work, sustainable cities and more.
Key skills that will be practiced • • • • • • • •
Problem Solving and Design Thinking Understanding homelessness Developing a persona Building a prototype Gathering user feedback Building a business model Marketing tactics Financial forecasting Developing a pitch and telling the story
Leadership and Collaboration • Goal setting • Personal leadership style • Effective teamwork and collaboration • Being an effective mentee • Personal branding • Social entrepreneurship
What does a day include?
What does a day include? Each day, students will be involved in a range of activities and experiences starting the day with goal setting and spending time gathering knowledge and developing key competencies and ending the day doing creative reflections. Here are some examples from a day in the program: • Setting goals for that day around understanding impacts of homelessness from a • • • • • • •
leading researcher or advocate - such as from the Homeless Hub Building a persona in order to understand the needs of someone experiencing homelessness and the systemic issues in place Meeting with mentors to share their solution ideas and hear the mentors’ feedback mentors will include social entrepreneurs and Schulich instructors Working in teams in different roles to test out and explore different leadership and communication styles Creating a video to present the group ideas and solutions to their peers Having a virtual tour of the United Nations to understand the SDGs on a global basis Intentional reflection to consider the learning from the day and how to move that forward to the goal setting for the next day. If possible - preparing for the next day’s field trip to tour a United Way of Greater Toronto funded agency that works to address homelessness - focusing on gathering hands-on learning to add to their ideas/prototypes/solutions
Participants will practice skills relevant to all career paths • • • • • •
Knowing and understanding yourself Personal branding and confidence Resilience and grit Collaboration and teamwork Leadership and active listening Design thinking
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Application Process • All students must submit an application indicating: interest, competencies they want to develop, 1-2 ideas they would like to work on related to addressing the issue of homelessness • Applications can be found at https://www.tmsschool.ca/parent/tms-schulichinnovation-entrepreneurial-experience • Deadline: February 5, 2021 • Interviews (as needed): February 16-19, 2021 • Decisions: February 22, 2021
Cost • The course will run for two weeks in July 2021 – July 5-16
▪ Full cost: $5,537 ($4900 + HST) per student
▪ 2021 cost: $3,450 ($3000 + HST) /student*includes pre-work, materials, speakers, networking and bus and lunch each day if in person. ▪ A 25% non-refundable deposit is due by March 1 upon acceptance
* TMS subsidy for students re-enrolled for 2021/22 school year
Additional dates •
We will have a kick off meeting on Wednesday March 3, 8am to 9:30am with all the students in Cohort 2021 as well as our partners from Schulich and Innovation York.
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The official launch will be on Wednesday March 31, 8am to 9:30am by – We will officially kick off the program, talk about expectations and do some team building – We also will host a great speaker who will talk about entrepreneurial thinking and ideas to change the world or our local community
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Our Design Thinking session will take place on Saturday April 24, 10am to 3pm – location TBD – During this session, we’ll do deeper into the group ideas using the lens of design thinking •
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Additional team building events May-June TBD York University will provide details of the payment process by March 2021
Final thoughts You are about to embark on an exciting, rewarding and valuable journey. It is a journey to train and encourage you, and us all, towards greater innovation and entrepreneurship in our thinking and actions and to seek out new rewarding opportunities for yourselves, your family, your community and your society. – Dr. Alan Middleton, Former Executive Director, SEEC and Distinguished Adjunct Professor Schulich School of Business, York University
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