Biola University Office of Innovation

📌 Are you pitching? Are you attending? 📌 Let us know by commenting below, say you are coming through this event or fill out our form to pitch: https://lnkd.in/gKYUx6QA OR JUST SHOW UP to support the entrepreneurs pitching. Can't wait to see you there! 📌 IDEA pitch competition  📅 Monday, November 11, 2024 ⏰ 7 - 9 pm 📍 Biola Library Patio 4 judges will decide on the winner who will receive $500   to prototype their idea & give feedback to all - THANK YOU to the judges!   1. Sena Lee | Biola University ALUMNI | MILLU | YWAM-er 2. Stefan Jungmichel | Biola University ALUMNI | AI Lab Coordinator 3. Dr. Ed Eng, MBA, MS | La Mirada mayor 4. Ed Oyama | Super Simple Marketing #pitchcompetition #pitchyouridea #entrepreneurship #biolauniversity

Joining us #biolans - get your creative caps on, come learn from Christ-centered startup leaders, and explore our #innovation labs. THIS week, Tuesday, October 22, in the Biola Library Patio, we are hosting our Startup Competition Kick-off event & ProtoDesign Lab Launch! Yes, it's a long title, but it's been a long road in the making with our Biola University Office of Innovation enthusiasts!!!! IN PERSON EVENT: Startup Kickoff & ProtoDesign Lab Launch WHEN: Tuesday, 22 October 2024 at 5-8PM WHERE: Library Patio RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/dDaiVidF WHAT'S in STORE: Panel Discussions to ✨ ignite your creativity & 🚀 launch your ideas: 📌 Danielle Mathews | The Lab, Inc | The Ohio State University College Athlete 📌 Gaby Matthews | The Lab, Inc | Sports Performance 📌 Darius Fong | Run Tech Club | 2x Grammys 📌 Grant Lawrence | Thank God | Biola University Alumn 📌 Sena Lee {Moderator} | MILLU | YWAM-er | #Biolan INTERACTIVE scavenger hunt to celebrate 🎉 the launch of our NEW ProtoDesign Lab by: 📌 Interacting with 3D Printers to ignite your creativity with our ProtoDesign Coordinator Enqi Chen 📌 Making your very own button with our new button makers 📌 Picking out your favorite fabric to come back later and sew something cool with our new sewing machine with our OOI Manager Andrea Florenza 📌 Getting inspired by our resident shirt-making team using our Cricut machines & shirt transfers with our OOI Coordinator Jehan Christian 📌 Instantly seeing how AI integrates with 3D printing & entrepreneurship with the amazing Biola University Crowell School of Business AI lab with Joseph Hartono, Stefan Jungmichel and Clarissa Jocelyn 📌 Getting to know our Biola University Office of Innovation team, especially our Biola Entrepreneurship Society President Audrey Seputra and VP Angel Martinez along with our designer Makenna Brandt (Animation student) and our copywriter Asha Joseph (English & Torrey student). We are a mighty team of creatives, innovators and entrepreneurs who support students and dream big with them. At the Biola University Office of Innovation, we are THRILLED and BLESSED and EXCITED to bring you an inspiring evening filled with 📌 interactive games, 📌 an insightful panel, and 📌 a chance to be inspired by startup leaders about their journeys. This event will be a great opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate the start of something amazing. #startup #event #university #student #startupjourney

Our HS Innovation Camp is FULL - 20 local High School students are coming to the Biola University campus NEXT WEEK to INNOVATE! They will create their own ideas from a spark of a dream to versions 1, 2 and 3 of their prototypes in 5 days. Crazy? No... we know all of these students can embrace design thinking and create ..... let's do this! Our OOI dream team is ready to execute this amazing camp: Sarah H. and Sena Lee co-founders of MILLU, our ops coordinator, Jehan Christian and our AI lab & prototype and design lab lead Stefan Jungmichel, and our academic leaders & champions Michael Arena and David Bourgeois. #highschoolsummercamp #summercamp #innovation #innovationcamp #summer

The Biola Startup Competition is NEXT month, Friday, April 19, 2 pm - 6 pm. 🔺Come support student entrepreneurs 🔺Be inspired by innovation & creativity 🔺Meet faith-based investors who are judges and mentors This event showcases and invests in redemptive entrepreneurial ventures. Join us to celebrate all our teams' hard work in the competition over the last year. Our finalist teams (10 student startups THIS YEAR!) will give their 10-minute pitches followed by a Q&A from our esteemed judges. We will conclude the afternoon with an awards ceremony and celebration of all the innovation and growth that has taken place over the last year.

Our student innovator launched his new PODCAST this week - CONGRATS David Pendleton II - for persisting in your KINGDOM impact vision and work. Can't wait for the next episode to come out in a couple of weeks. This is a PRIME example of how our Office of Innovation coworking space at Biola University encourages creativity, provides accountability, and has its doors open to ask questions, ideate, check-in, and execute for entrepreneurial-minded student-leaders to CREATE what their strengths can bring to the world. BRAVO David! We are so proud of you. #studentinnovation #universityinnovation #universitystartup #startup #podcast https://lnkd.in/du__cqzv

Join us for a Faith Driven Investor Watch Party next week, Wednesday, January 24, from 11:30 am - 2:30 pm at the Biola University Office of Innovation in the Biola Univ Library, main floor, turn right after the turnstiles. ENJOY watching IN COMMUNITY with Biola University students, faculty, mentors and advocates. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gwPSAqMf #faithdriveninvestor