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2009 SAGE
The SAGE Project began in the fall of 2008 as a series of seminars developed to expose high school students to the people and ideas that demonstrate a green entrepreneurial spirit. Participants were versed in the science of environmental challenges, entrepreneurial thinking, and the role they can play in meeting these challenges. Students learned about opportunities and ventures in profit and non-profit contexts. The goal of the program was to create a "green entrepreneurial culture" of informed and prepared young adults in the Central New York region.
In 2009 the program was ramped up by partnering with the Metropolitan Development Association of Central New York and Syracuse (MDA) by encouraging high school and college students to enter an idea in the MDA's Business Idea Competition. The competition had a prize of $5,000 for students and $1,000 for their school or organization.
Programs held to encourage student involvement in the competition and to instruct them on sustainability and green entrepreneurship included:
Do you want to be a science millionaire? On November 11, 2009. This event for high school students and faculty introduced participants to the ideas that demonstrate the green entrepreneurial spirit. This day long event helped participants to become better educated about climate change, presented a session on the key elements of a successful start-up and included a green projects panel. Students were also involved in a idea development activity that focused on environmental challenges.
We're all "green" when we have a new idea: A workshop to generate an idea to submit to the MDA competition on December 13, 2009. Participants spent the afternoon going through a series of activities to help them expand and develop a business idea that they planned to submit to the MDA's Idea Competition. Working in groups, the students went through a number of creative thinking exercises to develop green and sustainable ideas that could solve or alleviate environmental challenges being faced in the world. For those already working on an idea, they were encouraged to use these activities to evaluate and potentially expand their concept before it to submitting to the MDA.
The deadline for submission the MDA Business Idea Competition was January 22, 2010. Winners of the award will be announced on April 27, 2010 at 4:00 PM at the Storer Auditorium on the campus of Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY.
For more information, contact Maura Stefl at mhstefl@esf.edu
This project is a collaboration between the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) and the Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse and Central New York (MDA) with support, in part, from a NYS Department of Labor grant led by CNY Works.
