Program Highlights:
EXPLORE
- Business Leader Lecture Series
The CEPE sponsors public lectures by entrepreneurs and business leaders who have had experience creating and implementing productive ventures. The Business Leader Lecture Series serves as an accessible means for students to explore entrepreneurship in forms as diverse as historical preservation, medical equipment innovation and resta
urant proprietorship. Intimate dinners with the speaker, for selected students and faculty, create a unique opportunity for the students to develop relationships with professionals. ENGAGE
- Course in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Social Change:
This non-credit course explores innovations in business and markets as viable tools in creating value, promoting human development, and transforming societies. The goal of the course is to provide students with an in-depth, hands-on introduction to the complexities of innovation, ideas, and the nature of the entrepreneurial process of venture creation. We work on completing and marketing an idea or product that meets a potential demand and/or addresses a social need. Along the way students are introduced to some of the necessary accounting, business plan writing, and presentation skills that can assist the young entrepreneur. The entire class is run as a year-long seminar made up of guest speakers and specialists, informative visits, fieldwork, one-on-one consultations with the instructor, and class presentations.
- MyEJ.org 90-Day Entrepreneur Boot Camp
Participants in the entrepreneurship course enroll in the Acton Foundation’s My Entrepreneurial Journey. The 90-Day Entrepreneur Boot Camp is a series of challenges, experiments and exercises designed to enable students to identify where their talents, passions and the world intersect.
- Social Entrepreneurship Initiative
The Social Entrepreneurship Initiative is designed to promote the idea that entrepreneurship is a viable means of mitigating social and collective action problems. The program encourages students to explore, design, and implement sustainable entrepreneurial solutions to social problems. CREATE
- Mentorship Program
Each year members of our network of alumni, scholars and business leaders are paired with our young entrepreneurs to provide them with guidance and insight. Mentors help to guide students through the process of bringing an idea to implementation.
- Entrepreneurship Expo
The annual culmination of the CEPE Entrepreneurship Program is the Entrepreneurship Expo where both established and burgeoning entrepreneurs in the Hampden-Sydney College network have the opportunity to connect and explore the potential for investment and cooperative ventures. Highlights of the Expo include the Venture Pitch Presentations in the Tiger's Den, where program participants present new venture and product ideas to successful entrepreneurs and investors in the H-SC network in hopes of receiving start-up loans, professional expertise or partnerships to further their career goals.
- Hammer House H-SC
The CEPE at Hampden-Sydney sponsors the first-ever college *If I Had a Hammer* franchise. The H-SC “Hammer House” team consists of 5-8 students, each responsible for some aspect of running the nationally recognized *If I Had a Hammer* mathematics enrichment program. Responsibilities include, operations management, “build” instruction, school administrator relations, corporate sponsorship sales and public relations. With on-going training and development, the H-SC students are entirely responsible for the operation, revenue generation and expansion of the program.
