INNOVATE: Trinity’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community

An immersive, experiential, cohort experience to learning life-long leadership, innovation, inventive, and entrepreneurial skills -- through activities, field trips, speakers, mentors, networking, events, and other exciting hands-on, real-world experiences

One of the newest initiatives of the Entrepreneurship Center is the INNOVATE Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community for first-year students.

With a theme of “learning by doing,” the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community immerses students in a creative, inventive, and entrepreneurial environment of activities, field trips, speaker and networking opportunities, and other activities that build skillsets and mindsets for whatever major or career students intend to pursue.

All lines of work and play are enhanced by having innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets, and mastering so-called “soft skills” at an early stage of your college career will enhance and expand many of your opportunities down the road.

• The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community is a group of up to 60 students clustered together in the same residential living area.
• Lead by an on-floor innovator-in-residence, students undertake a series of individual and group engagements that build confidence, knowledge, skills, and networks.
• Regular and engaged meetings and activities progress student self-awareness, creative thinking, and predisposition towards innovative and entrepreneurial action.
• Field trips to local innovators and entrepreneurs expose students to many diverse and stimulating case studies for how problems are bring solved in the real-world around us.
• Semester long activities create immersive learning environments to achieve distinctive skills and achievement goals.

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community closely aligns with the Innovation Fellowship program, and most Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community students have also been accepted into that program.

First-year students select the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community during their application for on-campus Housing and are notified of their acceptance as part of that process.  Students accepted into the Innovation Fellowship will have priority selection spots in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community housing lottery.

Students interested in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community Living Learning Community are also advised to consider applying for the Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Orientation Next program during First Year Orientation in August.

For more information, contact Danny Briere, Executive Director.