Many (most? all?) Ashoka employees are intra- and/or entrepreneurs.  I count myself among them.  The other day I sat down with a colleague to hash out some details for an idea I have about a way of connecting independent musicians with new venues and new audiences.  Here’s the big idea, in napkin form.* *NOTE: More like legal pad form… -Laura
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Many (most? all?) Ashoka employees are intra- and/or entrepreneurs.  I count myself among them.  The other day I sat down with a colleague to hash out some details for an idea I have about a way of connecting independent musicians with new venues and new audiences.  Here’s the big idea, in napkin form.*

*NOTE: More like legal pad form…

-Laura

STEM education is super duper duper important. Don’t get me wrong.  But what would we do with the great innovations of great engineers if we didn’t also have great minds figuring out how to implement, distribute, and market them, create the organizations and businesses and value chains needed to deploy them?  Are our schools creating the types of people capable of making good on that potential?  Check out this article in the atlantic to understand why calls for better STEM education should be accompanied by calls for empathy education.
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STEM education is super duper duper important. Don’t get me wrong.  But what would we do with the great innovations of great engineers if we didn’t also have great minds figuring out how to implement, distribute, and market them, create the organizations and businesses and value chains needed to deploy them?  Are our schools creating the types of people capable of making good on that potential?  Check out this article in the atlantic to understand why calls for better STEM education should be accompanied by calls for empathy education.

The Miami Chapter

Our partners at the Knight Foundation did a great interview with Ashoka South Florida Director, Lorena Garcíca Duran, about her role setting up shop in Miami and the Ashoka Summit for business and social entrepreneurs that starts later on today.

We’ll keep you posted about the summit in the coming days, starting with the live stream at 1.30 pm EST today.

Source: knightfoundation.org

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