DESIGN AND ENTREPRENUERSHIP WORKSHOP BY MIT

Rajesh Nair, co-founder of Degree Controls Inc and being its single largest shareholder and is presently completing his MS in System Design and Management at MIT initiated a seven week long workshop at Mar Baselios college of Engineering, Trivandrum with an experiment to see if entrepreneurs can be made by giving them proper training and guidance. The workshop kick started on december 7 and ended on January 25th. The initial phase of the workshop included sessions of familiarizing with different hardware components like arduino and micro controllers and also familiarizing with application development on various platforms like android, arduino etc. The next phase was to analyse problems related to healthcare by visiting hospitals and medical centers  and create economic solutions to it.

 The main objective of the workshop was to create entrepreneurial attitude in students so that they see problems as opportunities and try working on them. Meanwhile, several sessions was given to pitch the problem before different personalities and to overcome the initial fear. The workshop included two mini projects and three main projects, the final project being the one that is worth taking to the next level. The participants had to finally make an investor pitch using presentations and many of these projects were invited to startup village, Cochin.

        This was the best workshop in my life till today. Would have been a big miss if I  hadn't attended it. This workshop has changed my attitude very much. Now I see every problems around me as a possibility. 
Best workshop ever!!
thanks to Rajesh Nair, Aditya Pasupuleti, Prashant Patil, Dan Sawada and many more who came long distances and spared their Christmas holidays for us

see also....MIT Video - Starting Up Young Entrepreneurs