LOCATION: IHQ (E38) 7th FLOOR HACKER REACTOR
DATE AND TIME: NOVEMBER 2ND 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM (DOORS OPEN AT 5:00 PM)
ABOUT THE EVENT
Meet Creative Arts Competition winner Rebecca Hui, who responsibly brings the extraordinary art of indigenous people to Western design and fashion companies at scale through Roots Studio, her Competition-winning venture that is now a full-fledged company in New York! Come for Rebecca’s inspiring story, and stay for an evening of straight-talk from this successful founder about leveraging the MIT innovation ecosystem to make your arts venture come to life.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE ARTS COMPETITION
Building on MIT’s entrepreneurship legacy, the Creative Arts Competition supports arts-focused startups at the Institute, helping to turn students’ big ideas into successful business ventures.
A year-long challenge, the Creative Arts Competition equips a cohort of semi-finalists, selected in Fall by application, with mentors and workshops to hone their products, business models, and pitches. Throughout the Fall, workshop events and Creative Cafés are open to the public, allowing potential collaborators to meet each other and venture-build in advance of the November 15th application deadline. The Competition culminates in a spring pitch event on April 4th, where finalists compete for a $15,000 prize to launch new solutions for the creative industries. arts.mit.edu/win.
ABOUT IDEAS
The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge is MIT’s 20+ year-old annual social entrepreneurship program housed in the PKG Public Service Center. Since its founding in 2001, IDEAS has enabled MIT student-led teams to apply their education and expertise in collaboration with community partners to address social and environmental challenges around the world. Through this program, MIT students can recruit a team from anywhere in the world and develop a creative solution in partnership with impacted stakeholders. Teams benefit from a supportive body of reviewers, mentors, and funding within the range of $1,000 – $20,000.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Inclusive Innovation Series pulls together events and initiatives organized by MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship community around intersecting topics of diversity, equity, inclusion, innovation, and entrepreneurship. By convening the community around these important topics inside MIT’s newest home for innovators, MIT Office of Innovation aims to increase the ecosystem’s accessibility to communities historically underrepresented in innovation, entrepreneurship & STEM. We know the world’s most pressing issues require breakthrough innovations from diverse teams, and we believe these teams can meet and discover the rich resources of the I&E ecosystem through this series.
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Co-sponsored by IDEAS and Office of Innovation
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