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HEN HATCH IS A STARTUP FUNDING COMPETITION FOR UD STUDENTS, STAFF AND ALUMNI.
business concepts. “It’s a 15-week experience of what an entrepreneur would do to start a business,” he says.
Through Horn, the university offers about 40 incoming freshmen a four-year
enrichment program called Delaware Innovation Fellows. Now finishing its third year, the program helps students “develop an entrepreneurial mindset, identify their passion ideas and recognize
what they want to become,” Strauss says. Another Horn option for undergrad-
uates is a 10-credit certificate program that correlates with their majors. Some examples include: Eco-Entrepreneurship for College of Earth, Ocean & Environment students; New Product Development for agriculture students; and Design & Creative Making for stu- dents in the College of Arts & Sciences.
The elite century-old Tower Hill School is completing its first year offering a social innovation program in partner- ship with the University of Pennsylvania. Juniors and seniors can take the class, taught by Penn faculty, sometimes on- line and sometimes visiting the school. Students hone entrepreneurial skills while developing projects that have a beneficial social purpose. “They have to generate an idea, prove it out, test it, and try to form
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