This award recognizes students with entrepreneurial minds who demonstrate exceptional abilities in identifying and pursuing opportunities, and in developing innovative solutions and ideas that create value for others and the community.
The awards aim to:
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Recognize excellence in innovation and entrepreneurship among students
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Inspire other students to be entrepreneurial innovators by sharing success stories in innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurial mind-sets among QU students.
Eligibility
To be considered for this award, applicants must meet the following criteria:
The Award
The award(s) will be nominated by the designated CCP Student Award Committee, either to an individual or a group.
- Certificate of Excellence
- Valuable prize
Applicants of the award should:
- Demonstrate high readiness in detecting problems and taking the initiative in suggesting solutions
- Be able to provide creative ideas on how they can contribute to promoting the value
- Showcase how their solutions can effectively influence the general environment and add value to others
Interested students or groups of students must:
- Fill in the Award
Online Application Form.
- Submit the final product of the achievement/initiative (word document).
The following subtitles and questions may help you:
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Defining the existing problem or the needs in the community
Question: How do you conceptualize the problem, needs of the community? What are its causes, implications, and significance?
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Thinking about the initiative in suggesting solutions
Question: What are the ideas, initiatives and solutions chosen to tackle this problem? How did you choose these ideas? What are the approaches/processes of your solutions? What are the resources that sustain your ideas?
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Showing that the Creativity thinking attributes are achieved: sensitivity, fluency, flexibility and originality.
Question: What outcomes are innovative about your solutions/initiatives? To what extend are your chosen ideas creative?
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Showing the high effectiveness of the solutions in influencing the general environment
Question: What is the impact of your solutions on the community and the general environment? What are the values created on the social, cultural and economic landscape? What are the challenges and benefits of these solutions?
- Submit a PowerPoint document describing their innovative achievement/initiative with voice recording on the slides (5 min maximum).