Students develop products, businesses, social programs, or other innovations that can be used to solve existing problems or capitalize on potential opportunities.

During your Entrepreneurship experience, you may have done some of the following:

• Assess the environment to identify problems to solve or opportunities to address
• Apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and principles to create products, businesses, services, programs, not-for-profits, or other innovations
• Evaluate the impact of innovations related to your major

Reflection Activities

First, clearly identify and describe your Entrepreneurship. Then, select and incorporate evidence that demonstrates you had some of the experiences suggested above. To do so, you will need to complete at least 2 of the reflection activities listed below. As this is a digital portfolio, avoid relying only on writing.  Consider providing pictures, video, or other media to demonstrate skills obtained or enhanced by this experience.

You can use video to respond to some of the prompts, so long as you also include materials you produced during the experience.

1. Please provide an example of a project in which you identified an issue or explored an opportunity. Include a PDF of the completed project. How did you encounter this topic? What solutions did you generate in regards to this topics? What did you learn in the course of this project? How might you draw on this experience in the future? What might you do differently?
2. Include a reflection on the process of creating a product, business, service, program, not-for-profit, or other innovation. What did you learn during this process? What were key moments in the creation process? How might you draw on this process again in the future? What might you do differently? Include a PDF of the completed project. You might include a brief video in which you speak about this project.
3. Include a one minute reflection video regarding your entrepreneurship or innovation experience. What were key experiences and concepts you will take away from this process? How will this be useful to you in the future?
4. Provide an example or two of emerging concepts or innovations in your field or offer suggestions for possible innovations that could occur within your field. What problem(s) is (are) being addressed? What are the potential impacts of such projects? How would this change your discipline?
5. Include an example of a project related to entrepreneurship and social justice. How does this project seek to address a community issue in an ethical way? What is the potential impact of this project? Were you involved in this project? If so, how? How might you draw on this project’s model in the future?
6. Interview an entrepreneur and ask them for 5 “tips” – what they learned and will share – about starting a business or not-for-profit. Provide the interview questions/answers. Describe why you chose to interview this entrepreneur in particular. Then reflect on the impact of this information on your career goals by providing a paragraph outlining your goals now that your internship has ended.
7. Have you applied concepts from your entrepreneurship experience in another context, such as a family, social, or other activity? If so, how did you do so? If not, how might you apply concepts you learned in the future?

If one or more of the prompts don’t seem to directly address your experience, please feel free to interpret them to some degree, allowing you to respond in an authentic way. This is your experience; these prompts are meant to help you share it in a way that is useful to multiple audiences.