Yuva Summit on 2011

The Deshpande Foundation proudly announces Development Dialogue's Yuva Summit on 27 January 2011 with Keynote Speaker Rahul Bose. Bose is renowned for his work as an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player. His appearances in Hindi films, include Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine honored him as "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English, August and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Bose is also a well know social activist and the founder of the anti-discrimination NGO, The Foundation.

The Summit will also feature special guest speakers:
Dr. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande - Founder, Deshpande Foundation
Yuva Summit on 27 January 2011- Principal, BVB College of Engineering, Hubli
Ken Zolot - Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT, Boston
Meenu Venkateswaran - CEO Pravah, Delhi

Todd Fry - Executive Director, Deshpande Foundation’s Merrimack Valley Sandbox, Boston and others
We warmly invite youth, faculty, and college administrators affiliated with the Deshpande Foundation to join us at 9.00am on the 27th of January to share and hear stories of young leaders' achievements, listen to inspiring keynote speakers, and participate in engaging group discussions with youth leaders from across the world.welcome .

Space is limited, so please be sure to register online by clicking on the link below as soon as possible and at the latest by 5 January 2011.

If you are interested in attending or have queries regarding the Yuva Summit please contact the Yuva Summit team at yuva@dfmail.org. or 0836-2378500.

"Cracking the Code" Competition for the Students.

Cracking the Code Flyer

Oxford College IT Class

Oxford College had an IT training on the communication and Social networking tools, on 20-09-2010 in Deshpande Centre for social Entrepreneurship. These tools are very useful to set the communication level high, these tools will be used by them in communication with the E A team as well as their faculties. E Cell members have got this opportunity to gain this extra knowledge which can be helpful for them in their entrepreneurial thinking, the tools they learned are useful for their academics also.

E A Team wish Oxford college E Cell members All the Best for their Future.

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Rashmi Bansal In DCSE Hubli

Rashmi Bansal the author of “Stay Hunger Stay Foolish” has visited Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Hubli on 14th September and had a discussion with Mr Naveen Jha (Director, DCSE India). Reshmi Bansal has interacted with DF staff and in house entrepreneur (SEIR) Miss Sharvani (Safe Hands) Mr Shikandar (Rain water harvesting) E A faculties and all the E cell members from Hubli Dharwad had an interaction with Rasmi Bansal in IMSR College Auditorium Hubli, the faculties and the students had a chance to know more about the book and the inspiration behind the book. Rashmi Bansal’s first visit to Hubli (DCSE) and visited Akshay Patra & Agastya (NGO Partners of DCSE) and spoke with Hubli Champions and had secession with DFP cohort 5 Fellows. It was greate having her here in DCSE.

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Oxford College Inauguration

The first BBA College to be a partner with Entrepreneurship Academy, Oxford college had inaugurated their E cell on 01 Sept 2010 Mr Naveen Jha (Director, DCSE India) was the guest of honor and Mr Ajay Handa (The Hans ltd) was the chief guest for the program with Mr Vasant Horriati (Chairman, Oxfor college) Mrs Manjula Mathew (Director/principal, Oxford college) and the Faculties Mr Shashidhar, Mrs Arifa and others along with the E A Team Miss Genny & Mr Charles were present for the program.
Mr Naveen Jha had spoke about Deshpande foundation and Entrepreneurship and Mr Ajay Handa had shared his view on Entrepreneurship and was happy to see the E cell and Entrepreneurship Academy in the college.
The E cell has named as SMART E Cell the students of the E Cell had played a skit on entrepreneur and gave a good presentation in the function.
E A Team congratulates the new partner……

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3rd E Cell Meeting

EA had 3rd E Cell meeting on 04th July 2010 in DCSE Hubli. EA had introduced Suma to the E Cell members, who have recently joined for EA program. The students from GBS and BIMS Belgaum and IMSR Hubli had attended this meeting; there was an interaction with Elisha and Azim the English instructor of DFP from North Eastern University Boston. The students had a brainstorming secession for the activities to be done with the E Cell after the internship, lot of Ideas had come out and the students are excited for the action.

E Cell 1st Meeting

Entrepreneurship Academy team has organized the first weekly meeting with the E Cell members in DCSE Hubli on 13th June 2010 (Sunday) at 11:00am. All the E cell members were invited to attend the meeting from all the EA partners (MBA College) of Hubli, Dharwad and Belgaum.

The students have attended the meeting and they got the opportunity of talking to the MBA students of USC marshall (This school is considered a top 20 business school by both U.S. News & World Report and BusinessWeek. The USC Marshall School of Business (also known as USC Marshall School of Business) is a private research and academic institution at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools) they interacted with each other and talked about the courses and the activities that they do apart from the academics and how the outdoor activities helps them in their education.

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EMT By Genny & Xanthine

Deshpande Foundation’s Sandbox Fellows, Xanthine Basnet and Genny King, conducted a training of trainers on achievement motivation at DCSE on Thursday and Friday of this week. Participants included EA faculty from IMSR, JSS, BET’s GBS, Oxford College as well as a couple
outstanding graduates of the Deshpande Fellowship Program. The session started with an introduction by Naveen Jha on the value of developing the ability to entrepreneurially motivate others. Over the course of the intensive two day training, participants engaged in activities that pushed them to think outside of the box, dig into complex issues regarding entrepreneurship education, reflect on their own motivational styles and competencies and develop innovative teaching tools. Feedback from the participants at the conclusion of the TOT, reflected an appreciation for the opportunity and an excitement to transfer the skills they developed during the training into their work training others to lead more entrepreneurial lives.

1 Advisory Committee Meeting

On 12th May 2010, there was a 1st Advisory Committee Meeting in Dshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Hubli. All the E Cell committee members from Belgaum, ( BIMS, GBS) Dharwad (JSS and KIMS) Hubli (GBS) were present for the meeting from 03 : 00pm to 05 : 30 pm. Mr Naveen (Director of DCSE India) has addressed the members.

EA Team had organized the meeting.

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande meets with faculty, directors & E-Cell members.

On 12th April, Desh met with EA’s E-Cell members and faculty at DCSE. During the event, Desh gave awards to students from GBS (Hubli) for their involvement in the 2K Challenge. Following the awards’ ceremony, one student from each school gave a brief presentation about their E-Cell activities and interest in engaging in entrepreneurial activities through the E-Cell. Desh then addressed the group with an inspirational talk on pursuing an entrepreneurial life. Below are some students’ feedback on what they learned from the session.

• You are the CEO of your own life
• Learn not just to be an entrepreneur, but also learn to lead an entrepreneurial life.
• Life is full of opportunities.
• Enjoy playing in every stage of life.
• Don’t give up or comprise one’s passion to be something.
• Entrepreneurs must have the guts to face Uncertainties..

Site visits:

As part of the Social Entrepreneurship course, students and faculty from JSS (Dharwad), GBS (Hubli) and IMSR (Hubli) visited Akshaya Patra (www.akshayapatra.org) and Agastya Foundation (www.agastya.org). Site visits are an important component of EA’s courses, as they give faculty students an opportunity to see local examples of the material covered in EA courses first hand. Below are some students and faculty members’ comments about their site visit experience.

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"It was on March 18, 2010 that we had visited the Agastya Foundation in Hubli.Some of the experiment we saw were interesting, many experiment where based on the visual and mind connection, they were very simple experiments but explaining much more than what it appears. We where lucky enough to try some of those and have an hand on experience on it."

By Ninaad N Musale GBS Hubli.
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IT trainings for faculty & students:

E-Cell members are engaging in trainings on IT applications for aspiring entrepreneurs. The first round of training covered a variety of areas, such as advanced Google applications, FaceBook and Blogs.
Through regular trainings, faculty members are developing advanced IT skills for academics. Trainings thus far have covered, advanced Google applications, FaceBook, Blogs, Dropbox, and advanced applications of Microsoft office suite.
EA plans to continually engage faculty and students in trainings to enhance their ability to utilize cutting edge IT applications in their work