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Focusing Your Idea for the Innovation Challenge

Posted by Anonymous on October 29, 2010 at 12:19 PM MST

The size of your idea may be big—you might have an idea that will take years to implement! Having big ideas is good; but you will want to focus your proposal on what you will be able to accomplish in the year that Innovation Challenge funds will be provided (March 2011-March 2012). Let’s look at an example:

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ASU's teachers college off to great year

Posted by Anonymous on October 27, 2010 at 1:13 PM MST

I’d argue that 2010 is the year of the teachers college in Arizona. For whatever criticism normally placed on colleges of education, the truth remains: there has never been a higher demand for qualified, dedicated educators in this country.

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An Easy Opp to Support AZ Homeless Youth

Posted by Anonymous on October 25, 2010 at 11:16 AM MST

Maricopa County had over 4,000 homeless youths under the age of 21 in 2009. Now, there's something that you can do to contribute to a solution, and it doesn't take but an hour of your time and costs you only $15...and a laugh.

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Wynter Fenn, undergraduate, School of Social Transformation

Posted by Anonymous on October 18, 2010 at 1:56 PM MST
Wynter Fenn, undergraduate, School of Social Transformation
Wynter Fenn, undergraduate, School of Social Transformation

Wynter Fenn is a senior majoring in Justice Studies and also president of STAND at ASU, a student-led group that raises awareness of atrocities abroad.

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Education project aims to raise the bar on education, use entrepreneurship for transforming students into excellent teachers

Posted by Anonymous on October 18, 2010 at 12:41 PM MST

Hailed as groundbreaking and a breakthrough in commitment to education, the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has partnered with Teach For America, thanks to an $18.85 million grant from philanthropist and entrepreneur T. Denny Sanford.

The resulting project, aptly named the Sanford Education Project, is a vehicle to infuse some of TFA's best practices to raise the status of teaching and education careers and serve as a model for teacher's colleges in Arizona, Andrea Stouder said. Stouder serves as the executive director of the Sanford Education Project.

“Our job is to help facilitate a change within the entire college," Stouder said. "If we win, everybody wins. If we do what we hope to do, we will leave a legacy on the Teachers College that will last, not run a program that will go for a few years and then disappear.”

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My Life Venture triggers students’ entrepreneurial drive

Posted by Anonymous on October 18, 2010 at 12:38 PM MST
My Life Venture instructor Sidnee Peck listens on during a class discussion
My Life Venture instructor Sidnee Peck (left) listens on during a class discussion. MLV offers students the opportunity to explore the basics of entrepreneurship.

Behind Sidnee Peck, the giant slideshow has students’ mouths hanging open. She shows them that if they saved $5 a day and tucked it into a high-interest savings account, they'd have nearly $1 million by retirement.

"All of a sudden that pack of cigarettes or that coffee does not seem so appealing," she says to her class.

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Imagine Cup offers student entrepreneurs a platform to solve world’s problems

Posted by Anonymous on October 18, 2010 at 12:35 PM MST
ASU students David Hayden (left) and Andrew Kelley (right)
ASU students David Hayden (left) and Andrew Kelley (right) accept their award for their winning project at the 2010 Imagine Cup competition. Hayden and his team developed a way for students with poor vision to take notes with ease.

Being legally blind, David Hayden, now a Computer Science Masters student, was having difficulty keeping up with taking notes in the fast-paced math classes two years ago. Little did he know that the innovative solution he created to resolve this problem would land him in Poland in 2010 for the world’s premiere student technology competition.

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First Innovations rekindles entrepreneurial spirit in the classroom

Posted by Anonymous on October 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM MST
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Pat Sekaquaptewa discusses her work with the Nakwatsvewat Institute, a Native American, nonprofit organization that works with Native communities to develop and enhance their governance, justice and educational institutions.

For Eddie Brown it is a matter of reiterating what’s already known; American Indians’ history, past and present, is rich in innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.

The question becomes how to teach that history, along with modern day thinking and problem-solving to students so they can contribute to the sustainability of American Indian tribal communities.

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Senior takes STAND to combat global problems, raise awareness locally

Posted by Anonymous on October 18, 2010 at 12:23 PM MST
Wynter Fenn is a Senior majoring in Justice Studies at Arizona State University.
Wynter Fenn is a Senior majoring in Justice Studies at Arizona State University. She is currently the president of STAND at ASU, a student-led group that raises awareness of atrocities abroad. Photo by Kyle Patton

Listen to Wynter Fenn's story below:

As the bell rings to release students for lunch, they all rush past me while my Holocaust Literature teacher inserts a DVD on 21st century genocide, anticipating students to stay and watch. I soon found myself in an empty classroom, viewing in awe the gruesome images of scorched bodies, emaciated children and millions of people crammed into a refugee camp.

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Michael Moon, MBA candidate, W.P. Carey School of Business

Posted by Anonymous on October 03, 2010 at 5:14 PM MST
Quoc Bui (left) and Mike Moon of FreetheApps.com, develop mobile applications th
Quoc Bui (left) and Mike Moon of FreetheApps.com, develop mobile applications that are used on smart phones, tablets and personal computers. The two earned an estimated $800,000 in their first year of business selling the applications through the Apple iTunes store.

Michael Moon is a current MBA candidate in the W.P. Carey School of Business and a 2005 Computer Science Engineering graduate from UC Davis. Moon, along with a business partner, are entering their second year as co-CEOs and creators of FreetheApps.com, an online business that develops and markets popular mobile-web based applications for smart phones, tablets and personal computers.

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