AEM 3255

Creativity Sprint: An Entrepreneurship Hackathon

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

The ability to shepherd an idea from ideation to development to implementation is an essential skill in today's business environment for entrepreneurs, innovators, and organizational change agents. To this end, this course aims to develop students' abilities to identify problems and generate solutions to real world business and societal challenges. The course focuses on problem identification (understanding the core elements of a presenting problem), idea generation (developing solutions to those problems), and implementation (putting those solutions into practice). The course includes lecture-based content and activities around these topics and features participation in a weekend-long hackathon event that serves as a practicum experience where students will generate, develop, and pitch an idea related to a societal or business challenge.

Distribution Requirements (ICE-IL)

Last 4 terms offered (None)

Outcomes REF-FA25

• Identify real problems (a.k.a., pain points).
• Effectively ideate creative solutions, including thinking through the idea's feasability, viability, and novelty.
• Recognize how technologies and solutions from one industry can be adapted to solve teh pain points of another industry.

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