The Black Scholars Index (BSI) is now award winning, as they say.
This past Friday, I won 3rd Place and a cash prize at the F.R.E.E. Research Poster Competition (Focusing Research on Entrepreneurial Empowerment).
What is F.R.E.E?
Focusing Research on Entrepreneurial Empowerment (FREE) is a research symposium with a poster session format. The purpose of this event is to provide a platform for students to showcase their research and receive feedback on it. Another purpose of the research symposium is to encourage entrepreneurship. Accordingly, we asked participants to dedicate a portion of their poster to explaining how they could apply their research to business exploits, namely a product or service.
BSI is in its infancy, but has great potential and will launch its redesign and new features in a few months. Totally built with open-source software (to-date), and with a one woman team, BSI already has ~200 registered scholars.
I was thrilled to participate in this event and am grateful to the Black Graduate Student Association and the Black Engineering Society for sponsoring it.
I competed against engineers and mathematicians, so I’d say third place is awesome.
Here is the competition’s website: http://sites.google.com/site/freeyourmind2k8/
And here are just a few images of the day:
entrepreneur. educator. researcher.
