Rejection Challenge

Last week in class we spent 1 hour and a half doing the Rejection Challenge (also known as Red Paper Clip Challenge). Each team starts off with a transparent acrylic box worth 50 cents. The idea is to trade the box for something of higher quality (price), and continue to trade items until the time is up. The team that brought back the item of highest value won.

We started by filling the tiny box with some flowers we found, in an attempt to add some value to it.

Week 5 - Vlog

Week 4 - Vlog

Market Needs

This week in class we learned about market research, coming up with a value proposition, and lean startup methodologies. Our task for the week was to talk to the professors and gather more information on the patents we selected.

Week 3 - Vlog

Team Building with Lego

Last week we did a team building that involved Legos. Basically your team would be split into two (business vs engineering) and each team would receive an image they had to describe in words with no images. The initial challenge was that your bag of lego pieces probably didn't include all (if any) of the pieces you needed. The idea here was that you work with what you got. 

Week 2 - Vlog

Week 1 - Vlog