Join Business, Entrepreneurship, and Networking Sessions (BEANS) for our first event of the semester as we welcome Michael Odokara-Okigbo to discuss how he and his team have developed NKENNE, the first African language learning app on the market. Fresh off Greenlight Maine and Big Gig, he's excited to spill some serious tea and help facilitate […]
New innovations based on cutting-edge research have a high failure rate because they focus on the wrong needs or even the wrong end user. In this workshop, you will learn how to use Innovation Engineering tools to test your assumptions and validate that they align with end user needs, wants, and expectations. Register here.
Patagonia. The North Face. Banff. You may know of international brands, but let BEANS introduce you to the young entrepreneurs who are driving change within the Maine outdoors community. Patrick Caron and Zach McCarthy will be at the Foster Center ready to share their experiences growing their own respective businesses, Move Free Designs and Inclusive […]
Join the Foster Center on Friday, Oct. 21 at 12:30 p.m. in Orono's Webster Park for the unveiling of the SunRule. An interactive sculpture that harnesses the rays of the sun to help users explore multiplication and division, the SunRule was invented by UMaine associate professor of mathematics education and instructional technology Justin Dimmel […]
