Joining a group such as Entrepreneurship Club has many advantages. It's a great way to learn valuable skills for the business world, but it's also a great way to meet likeminded peers.
Members of the Entrepreneurship Club know the importance of thinking creatively to drive business trends and improve sales, either for their own business or for their employer. Through the club, they exercise their creative muscles to learn ways to think like an entrepreneur.
"The club
provides us with valuable resources we need to make ourselves more marketable,
said Lee Miller, an electrical engineering major who has been involved since
the club's beginning.
Through various exercises and attending events, such as the Collegiate Entrepreneur's Organization meeting in Chicago, students hone their skills and meet students from other schools and attend seminars.
They also have the opportunity to show off their skills during competitions. Members of the club took part in Chicago Quest, a contest that's part scavenger hunt and part "The Apprentice."
Starting with just a single clue, teams scoured all of downtown Chicago, collecting more clues, until they arrived at the site of one of the Quest's four main tasks: an elevator pitch, a rapid prototyping activity, a media interview and a written opportunity assessment report.
MSOE students claimed second place against teams from Illinois Institute of Technology, DePaul University and University of Illinois at Chicago.
Throughout the contest, several innovative Chicago-area companies and organizations, including Motorola, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, Stuart School of Business, Businesspov.com, Inventables, Cleversafe and the Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center, hosted tasks.