La Salle University OPEN MINDS Innovation Challenge

More fun news about this weekend's OPEN MINDS Innovation Competition... we will also be hosting our own Escape Room challenge for teams to additionally compete in another fun way. Learning and thinking aren't meant to be boring or painful! www.lasalleinnovates.com

OPEN MINDS registrations continue. Students are reminded to pre-register so we can ensure sufficient catering and accommodations for everyone. www.lasalleinnovates.com

www.lasalleinnovates.com

Final details are coming together to make this another incredible year. Students can register here https://goo.gl/forms/rKjY9eYK8nnuGLAG3

2017 OPEN MINDS Student Information and Registration Form

Here's a quote from a student at our first OPEN MINDS in 2015...

Dear Prof. Melick,

I really want to say thank you for this past weekend. Open Minds was an amazing event that really did "open my mind". It pretty much summed up my 4 years of college in like 48 hours. I really learned so much and really can't express how grateful I am to have been apart of it. Thank you again for all your guidance/advice on our project (It's In the Bag). It was a tough loss but I really learned so much!

Thanks,

Deirdre

After participating in the Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC this week we continue to hear how critical it is for ALL students to exercise their creativity and learn the innovation lifecycle to be productive members in tomorrow's workforce. The La Salle OPEN MINDS Innovation Competition is a unique opportunity for students to solve complex problems, learn and enhance lifelong career skills, have fun, and have an opportunity to win cash awards for their creativity. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTyIHEIIznE2jGara4xJ5ApE-L0aQCNWsGFBKSKYkE8

OPEN MINDS Landing Page Solving complex challenges starts with YOU @ La Salle. Join the 3rd Annual OPEN MINDS Innovation Challenge as we tackle the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals on January 27-29, 2017. Students compete for $15,000 in prizes $3,500 First Place Cash Award plus $2,500 Grant $2,000 Se...

Posters advertising our upcoming OPEN MINDS Innovation Competition are going up around campus and getting students talking and thinking about some problems they'd like to address at our event.

Change and innovation starts at La Salle. Our 2017 OPEN MINDS competition will focus on the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Students will work in teams to choose a topic and devise innovative solutions to complex problems among these categories. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300

Sustainable Development Goals .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

The 2017 La Salle University OPEN MINDS Innovation Competition is scheduled for the weekend of January 27-29. Keep following our page for more information. For students who wish to get involved to help plan the event and contribute ideas on how to make this event even more impactful email us at [email protected]!

Photos from our 2016 La Salle OPEN MINDS Innovation Competition held January 29-31.

Midnight team challenge winners... Create a free-standing tower of paper without tape or support.

A full house to kick off OPEN MINDS 2016.

54 students registered for our second annual La Salle OPEN MINDS Innovation Competition this weekend and a few we are still waiting to register. We are set up for another great event this year and we wish all of our participants good luck.