UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor launched an ambassador program this semester to help promote the minor to fellow students.
The ENTI Student Ambassador Program will hold its first event on Dec. 6 from 6-8 p.m. at Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub. The event is open to all current Penn State students interested in learning more about opportunities available within the ENTI minor. Pizza will be provided and ambassadors will be available to answer questions and discuss how the ENTI minor can fit into students’ studies.
Linda Feltman is the faculty associate for the Student ENTI Ambassador Program and lecturer of telecommunications and media industries in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. She said the ENTI minor helps students become a more well-rounded person who can think differently. The minor is designed to help students master leadership, problem-solving, communication and management skills.
“The ENTI minor offers students an incredible cross discipline opportunity to work with students who are outside of their particular major or college,” Feltman said. “To that end, the ambassador program was created to promote that opportunity while increasing enrollment.”
Four current ENTI ambassadors across different majors hope to have the opportunity to promote their minor to other students.
“Many students miss out on great opportunities because they do not know they exist and promoting this minor will help students capitalize on these opportunities,” said ambassador Aidan Matunis, a Penn State senior studying biotechnology.
All ENTI students take three core courses: MGMT 215: Entrepreneurial Mindset, ENGR 310: Entrepreneurial Leadership and MGMT 425/ENGR 425/IST 425: New Venture Creation. In addition to the nine core credits, students take three more courses as part of one of 10 concentration areas known as clusters: Arts Entrepreneurship, Bio-Tech, Digital Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Entrepreneurship as Advocacy, Food and Bio-Innovation, Hospitality Management, New Media, New Ventures, Social Entrepreneurship and Technology Based Entrepreneurship.
Students can declare the ENTI minor after they attain a third-semester classification or have been accepted to a major. The ENTI minor does not have entrance requirements and can be declared in LionPATH.
Applications to be an ENTI ambassador are now open and the deadline to apply is Dec. 9.
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor and Center for Penn State Student Entrepreneurship are supported by Penn State Undergraduate Education.