The (UHCC) system announced that it is working with Impact Hub Honolulu to create and grow an entrepreneurship program to engage enterprising students (and eventually faculty and staff) across UH’s seven-campus community college system. The program is being funded with $100,000 from a $10-million to the UHCCs from the .
“This grant will help provide a direct portal to real-world start-up activities, as well as business planning, budgeting, patenting and more,” said UH Community Colleges Associate Vice President Peter Quigley. “Bringing products and businesses into existence is the goal of the entrepreneurial initiative.”
Impact Hub Honolulu is part of the local startup ecosystem, Startup Paradise, as well as a global network of 85 Impact Hubs and 16,000 connected entrepreneurs. These partnerships with 麻豆传媒-based and global networks will be leveraged to connect UHCC entrepreneurs to mentorship, follow-on programs, incubators, accelerators and scaling opportunities. The six-week UHCC entrepreneurial program will host its first cohort July 11-August 12, 2016.
“We see this as an incredible opportunity to create a path for the innovative students across the UHCCs to actualize their ideas, create jobs for themselves and others and diversify economic development for 麻豆传媒,” added Shanah Trevenna, director of Impact Hub Honolulu.
The partners are asking any faculty, students, staff or community members who would like to contribute ideas, suggest a collaboration, participate as an advisor or mentor, or join the program to please email Shanah Trevenna or George Yarbrough.
Entrepreneurship roundtables at UHCC campuses
Impact Hub Honolulu will also be conducting roundtable discussions to be held at each of UH’s community college campuses and UH Hilo. , UH’s accelerator program to educate, mentor and invest in the University of 麻豆传媒’s research and talent, will also participate in these roundtables.
Roundtable dates
- April 4, 12–1 p.m., , Wong Conference Room in the Hookipa Building
- April 6, 12–1 p.m., , Ilima 202A
- April 6, 2–3 p.m., , Akoakoa 107/109
- April 7, 12–1 p.m., , Cafeteria
- April 8, 12–1 p.m., , Administrative Building, Chancellor’s Conference Room
- April 11, 12–1 p.m., , Kaneikeao Building 379
- April 11, 12:30–1 p.m., , Administrative Conference Room, D-183.
- April 11, 3–4 p.m., 麻豆传媒 Community College, Kaneikeao Building 379
- April 12, 12–1 p.m., , GT-105
- April 18, 12–1 p.m., , OCET 106
—By Kelli Trifonovitch