Rally against child labor

Entrepreneurship Academy E cell members and course participants conducted a against child labor in Hubli. During the Grassroots innovation course EA students visited Foundation in Hubli. Agastya works to generate for learning in shool children by providing first hand experience with low cost science model.

Participants stared rally from Deshpande Foundation at 10.45am. Rally passed through BVB's main gate, Kadsideshwar Arts college, Vidyanagar police station to Agastya Foundation.
Participants experimented with a wide variety of science models and enjoyed seeing an example of grassroots innovation in their local community.

Course on Innovation and creativity for BBA students

Creativity leads to Innovation, innovation leads to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Academy organized two days course on Innovation and Creativity for EA partners. Course has been hosted by Oxford College of management, Hubli.
Course stated on 22nd and concluded on 23rd of November. Fist day started with game called Pully making activity. In this activity participant are asked to create Pully with available resources in the college campus. It was very creative and interesting session for them.
Soon after the activity participant under gone a session called ‘Who am I’. This activity help hem to understand his/her own self and built confidence in all participant.

Completed Grassroots’ Innovation Course for MBA 1sem

Entrepreneurship Academy conducted Grassroots’ Innovation Course on 20 November 2010. Objective of this course was to develop the understanding of importance of innovation to solve grassroots problems. Participants were trained in Entrepreneurship motivation, Innovation and creativity, Right to information Act, and IT.

Apart from this other topics were also covered in the course. Like Motivation profile questioners (MPQ) which will help to understand the once motivational style and take action accordingly. Majority of the students liked this session.
Most interesting session for the participant was, inspiring Entrepreneur. In this session founder of Sankalpa Rural Development Sociality ® Mr Sikandar Meeranak, interacted with participant. SRDS provides rain water harvesting solution in rural and urban areas.
SRDS also started the terrace garden service in HUblu-Dharwad. All participants visited the DCSE terrace garden and discussed with Mr Ali, who is maintaining DCSE garden.
Md Akbarkhan Mulla expressed that RTI was his interesting topic in this course and it was very nice session. He had some bad experience with local bureaucrats, but now he can use RTI as tool to get information.
Behavioral block Questioner and problem solving tree session were very interesting. One will give the understanding of inner blocks for innovation and other one help to think innovative solutions, this was expressed by many of the student in their feedback.

“Desh” session for EA

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande is the Chairman of Sparta Group LLC, A123 Systems (AONE), Sycamore Networks (SCMR), Tejas Networks, Sandstone Capital and HiveFire. He was also a founding investor in Airvana, Cimaron, Webdialogs and Relicore.

Prior to co-founding Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande was founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp.

Dr. Deshpande serves as a member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous donations have made possible MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.

Dr. Deshpande holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada.

Dr. Deshpande is a trustee of the Deshpande foundation. He and his wife are involved in several non-profit initiatives that include support for MIT, IIT, TiE, Akshaya Patra Foundation, Public Health Foundation of India and the Social Entrepreneurship Sandbox in India.

DCSE completes 3 part training of trainers series on Achievement Motivation

Rita Sengupta of NIESBUD, Delhi returned to Hubli this week to complete the final module of the training of trainers on achievement motivation. 15 dedicated professionals, including EA faculty, Champions, DFP alumni, and DCSE staff, completed the entire 10 day training, which was spread over the course of 6 months. The final module culminated with an intensive look at how to best utilize achievement motivation learning tools, including questionnaires, activities and thematic aperception tests.
Participants who pass an evaluation will be accredited by the Dehspande Foundation for completing the training.

Two days course for MBA 1 semester on ‘Grassroots Innovation’

Entrepreneurship Academy has been conducted two days course for MBA 1 semester on ‘Grassroots Innovation’. Course has the objectives of Transform students’ perspective on the world around them by enabling them to identify areas for innovation. Students also engaged themselves in the build their capacity to use problem solving skills to address local issues through innovative solutions.

More then 45 students are participated from IMER and BIMS. IMER hosted the course in there Tilakwadi college campus, Belgaum.