Innovation Week is a student-led initiative to get undergraduates thinking about how technology impacts their daily lives and engaged in the pursuit of technological innovation for the greater good. A week's worth of events are designed to introduce students to the resources available to student innovators at the Weiss Tech House and connect them with industry leaders who can help them turn their ideas into viable, marketable products and services.

Innovation Week 2007 was held November 5-9, 2007. Events included our keynote speaker, Mr. Andrew McKelvey, ex-CEO and Chairman of Monster Worldwide (Monster.com), Zander Lurie, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Development at CNET, and Adam Cook, a Penn alumnus and the inventor of ScoopFree. More than 200 students from across the University learned how they could access more than $80,000 in cash and prizes available each year through the Weiss Tech House Innovation Fund and PennVention.

• Monday, November 5, 2007:


• Treasure Hunt Kick-Off - Part virtual, part "real world" trivia-based, this treasure hunt’s clues will draw from Penn’s vast history of innovation. Win $1,000 in the Treasure Hunt and learn how you can access $80K available at the Weiss Tech House!
• 5:30 pm, Location: Weiss Tech House


• Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader? Come play trivia games and compete in magnetic car races to see how your skills match up to our 5th graders. The community relations committee works with children in West Philadlephia teaching hands on experiments in science and technology. Please join us for fun games and food....its just like being a kid again!
• 6:00 pm—7:30 pm, Location: Weiss Tech House



• Tuesday, November 6, 2007:


• The Weiss Tech House and Ware College House Entrepreneurs Hall cordially presents: Mr. Andrew McKelvey
    Principal, Blackfin Capital
    Founder, McKelvey Foundation
    Ex-CEO and Chairman, Monster Worldwide (Monster.com)
    Founder, Telephone Marketing Programs (TMP Worldwide)
  
• 6:30pm—7:30pm , Location: Weiss Tech House



• Wednesday, November 7, 2007:


• "CNet Networks and the Interactive Media Landscape" Zander Lurie
  Senior Vice President of Strategy and Development, CNET
• 6:00pm—7:30pm, SHDH 107



• Thursday, November 8, 2007:


• Weiss Tech House Mentoring Committee and Delta Sigma Pi Present THINK BIG: Learn how to apply your Penn experiences toward and entrepreneurial path
• Innovation in the 21st Century - Dr. Karl Ulrich, founder of TerraPass and inventor of the Xootr Scootr, will talk about the future of innovation.
• 6:00pm—7:30 pm, JMHH 265



• Friday, November 9, 2007:


• Inside the Innovation Fund: From Proposal to Pitch Come see the inner workings of the Innovation Fund. We’ll be going through the process from the time the project is digitally submitted up to the pitch. The presentation will include a mock pitch/deliberation, so you can see just how our decisions are made. Following the pitch there will be a Q and A session, so we can answer any questions you might have about the Innovation Fund.
  
• 12:00pm—1:00pm, Location: Weiss Tech House


• Treasure Hunt Closing Event Claim our grand prizes at the Innovation Week closing ceremony!
• 1pm, Location: Weiss Tech House