Saturday, May 25, 2019
Ten teams of students put their best ideas forward Shark-Tank-style during Penn State Beaver's annual Lion's Den competition.
Penn State Beaver students who want to improve campus can enter the Lion's Den competition for a chance to make their dream a reality.
Beaver Instructor Ashu Kumar tells his students they need to display clarity, confidence and commitment if they want to succeed. Those qualities have resulted in full-time jobs for three IST graduates.
Penn State Beaver information sciences and technology instructor Ashu Kumar is leading an advisory group that will serve as consultants to area businesses and non-profits, identifying their specific problems and challenges and connecting them with faculty and students who may be able to provide solutions.
Do you have an idea to improve life on campus? Then enter the Lion's Den, an annual student idea competition designed to foster innovation on campus. It's part of the University-wide Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Beaver Information Sciences and Technology Instructor Ashu Kumar is developing a voice-enabled classroom assistant that can, among other things, take attendance and award participation points.
Faculty and staff from across Penn State came together Aug. 15-16 at University Park in support of entrepreneurship teaching and learning at the fifth annual ENTI Summer Gathering. ENTI, launched is 2013, is Penn State’s Intercollege Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
IST instructor Ashu Kumar has been named a finalist in the University's 2017 Open Innovation Challenge. He'll pitch his idea - a voice-enabled classroom assistant - at the Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology on March 18.
Ashu Kumar, the former director of data analytics for one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, will join Penn State Beaver as an IST instructor in the fall.