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Upcoming Events
Feedback Friday
Feb. 21, 4 - 6 pm
*VIRTUAL
*Feedback Friday is virtual due to weather!
Join us for Feedback Friday, a dynamic round table where your voice shapes the future of student entrepreneurship. Bring your curiosity and questions; we'll provide the snacks and beverages.
Undergraduate Info Session
Feb. 25, 10 - 10:45 am
Virtual
Interested in working with other students across different disciplines? Fascinated by creating solutions to complex problems? Do you want to start a business or nonprofit? Attend an info session to learn about our undergraduate certificates at the daVinci Center and how it can help you achieve your goals.
Master of Product Innovation Info Session
Feb. 25
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Virtual
Guest speaker: Matt Sozio, MPI alum
Explore this cross-disciplinary master’s degree where you’ll tackle real-world challenges in product innovation, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship.
Design Thinking with Cael Parker
Feb. 27
6:00 - 07:30 pm
Virtual
Unlock your potential with a dynamic workshop that hones six essential design thinking skills!
Design Thinking Workshops
Unleash your creative potential by mastering the principles of design thinking. There is an increasing emphasis on skills such as problem-solving, adaptability, and empathy to current as well as future job roles. Through this immersive workshop, participants will be introduced to the six foundational steps in the design thinking process: defining How Might We challenges, seeking extremes, creating options, selecting ideas, prototyping, and feedback.
There are two ways to our Design Thinking workshops:
1. At your own pace
Take this asynchronous workshop on the practice of human-centered thinking. Delivered by the Executive Director of the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation, this experience gives participants the opportunity to actively engage in their learning.
Enroll in our asynchronous workshop >>
2. Our live workshops
Program participants are encouraged to have their cameras on to increase participation and engagement. To access the session, participants register to a workshop below and you will receive a zoom to join:
Design Thinking with Cael Parker
Mar. 26, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Shift Retail Lab
1235 W Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
Unlock your potential with a dynamic workshop that hones six essential design thinking skills!
Design Thinking with Manjari Kumarappan
April 7, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Virtual
Unlock your potential with a dynamic workshop that hones six essential design thinking skills!
Info Sessions
Learn more about our undergraduate and graduate programs by attending one of our Info Sessions.
Undergraduate Info Session
Mar. 7, 12 - 12:45 pm
Virtual
Interested in working with other students across different disciplines? Fascinated by creating solutions to complex problems? Do you want to start a business or nonprofit? Attend an info session to learn about our undergraduate certificates at the daVinci Center and how it can help you achieve your goals.
Healthcare Innovation Certificate Info Session
Mar. 19, 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Virtual
Join faculty and staff from the VCU School of Nursing and da Vinci Center to learn about a graduate certificate that helps those interested in innovation create products and solutions for healthcare challenges.
Undergraduate Info Session
Mar. 19, 3 - 3:45 pm
Virtual
Interested in working with other students across different disciplines? Fascinated by creating solutions to complex problems? Do you want to start a business or nonprofit? Attend an info session to learn about our undergraduate certificates at the daVinci Center and how it can help you achieve your goals.
Undergraduate Info Session
Apr. 3, 4 - 4:45 pm
Virtual
Interested in working with other students across different disciplines? Fascinated by creating solutions to complex problems? Do you want to start a business or nonprofit? Attend an info session to learn about our undergraduate certificates at the daVinci Center and how it can help you achieve your goals.
Master of Product Innovation Info Session
April 4, 12 - 1 pm
Virtual
Discover the Master of Product Innovation (MPI) program at VCU! Join da Vinci Center staff to explore this cross-disciplinary master’s degree where you’ll tackle real-world challenges in product innovation, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship.
Undergraduate Info Session
Apr. 14, 12 - 12:45 pm
Virtual
Interested in working with other students across different disciplines? Fascinated by creating solutions to complex problems? Do you want to start a business or nonprofit? Attend an info session to learn about our undergraduate certificates at the daVinci Center and how it can help you achieve your goals.
Healthcare Innovation Certificate Info Session
April 24, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Virtual
Join faculty and staff from the VCU School of Nursing and da Vinci Center to learn about a graduate certificate that helps those interested in innovation create products and solutions for healthcare challenges.
Undergraduate Info Session
Apr. 29, 10 - 10:45 am
Virtual
Interested in working with other students across different disciplines? Fascinated by creating solutions to complex problems? Do you want to start a business or nonprofit? Attend an info session to learn about our undergraduate certificates at the daVinci Center and how it can help you achieve your goals.
Master of Product Innovation Info Session
May 21, 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Virtual
Discover the Master of Product Innovation (MPI) program at VCU! Join da Vinci Center staff to explore this cross-disciplinary master’s degree where you’ll tackle real-world challenges in product innovation, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship.
Other Upcoming Events
Feedback Friday
Mar. 21, 4 - 6 pm
SHIFT Retail Lab
1235 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
United States
Join us for Feedback Friday, a dynamic round table where your voice shapes the future of student entrepreneurship. Bring your curiosity and questions; we'll provide the snacks and beverages.
Open House
Mar. 3, 3 - 5 pm
SHIFT Retail Lab
1235 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
United States
Drop by anytime and stay as long (or as short) as you’d like—this is a laid-back event designed to spark curiosity and connection! Interested in learning more about the Shift Retail Lab, our Shelfie Program, or da Vinci Center courses? Join us at the top of the hour for a brief presentation to get the scoop.
Open House
Apr. 7, 3 - 5 pm
SHIFT Retail Lab
1235 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
United States
Drop by anytime and stay as long (or as short) as you’d like—this is a laid-back event designed to spark curiosity and connection! Interested in learning more about the Shift Retail Lab, our Shelfie Program, or da Vinci Center courses? Join us at the top of the hour for a brief presentation to get the scoop.
Demo Day at Feedback Friday
April 18, 4 - 7 pm
SHIFT Retail Lab
1235 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
United States
VCU Demo Days is a bi-annual pitch competition held each fall and spring semester at Shift Retail Lab's Feedback Friday events. Participants have the opportunity to deliver investor-style pitches and compete for seed funding and support. All friends, family, and community members are welcome to attend and cheer on the pitches. Following the pitches, everyone is invited to stay for an awards ceremony and networking session.
Open House
May 5, 3 - 5 pm
SHIFT Retail Lab
1235 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
United States
Drop by anytime and stay as long (or as short) as you’d like—this is a laid-back event designed to spark curiosity and connection! Interested in learning more about the Shift Retail Lab, our Shelfie Program, or da Vinci Center courses? Join us at the top of the hour for a brief presentation to get the scoop.
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