One of my students, Eva, participated in the VentureX startup battle recently. I am really excited for her because she took advantage of a wonderful opportunity to meet like minded people in the area and work with them. She likened the experience to going to Disney World only more fun! I gave her a ton of extra credit for it. (She did spend an entire weekend there.) But let us be honest. Look at Eva's blog; she does not really need the credit.
I'd like to encourage all my students to take advantage of opportunities like this. Graduation time will come quickly enough and practicing your networking skills now when it is less of a risk than when you are actually looking for a job is invaluable. Besides, you may meet someone who would like for you to intern or better yet work for them and complete your program doing on-the-job-training.
That is worth giving up a weekend for!
