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Entrepreneurship program inspires students
University students from across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have today completed an exciting four-day residential entrepreneurship program at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
The visionary Enterprisers program, developed by the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to empower young entrepreneurs, has involved 55 students, five Sunshine Coast high school teachers and a team of 18 facilitators.
It has been facilitated by MIT Sloan School of Management’s Professor Neal Hartman of the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the University of Cambridge Professor Shai Vyakarnam.
Organiser Colin Graham, the CEO of USC’s Innovation Centre, said students had gained invaluable insights into identifying and seizing opportunities, building social networks and teams, being creative and making things happen.
Mr Graham said the program had helped strengthen USC’s alliance with Cambridge and MIT in advancing entrepreneurial education.
“We are working towards signing an agreement with the University of Cambridge to have sole rights to run the Enterprisers program across Australia and New Zealand," he said.
– Terry Walsh