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By engaging our community of alumni, faculty, staff and friends, we offer a challenging and diverse array of internships and other unique opportunities for students to explore their entrepreneurial ideas in a real-world context.

Application Deadline: November 15

The Entrepreneurship Scholars is an intensive winter term program designed to provide exceptionally creative and motivated Oberlin students with a dynamic environment in which to explore and develop their ideas. The program supports students with a wide variety of ambitions, including starting a grassroots organization, offering a new product or service, launching a tour, commercializing a discovery, and more.

The January 2010 Entrepreneurship Scholars program will take place in San Francisco, Cleveland, and Oberlin, and will include 15-20 talks by leading entrepreneurial alumni and friends of the college, intensive skills building workshops, peer collaboration, and individual venture development challenges. The program also allocates time for students to work on their specific projects.

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» VIEW scholars and speakers from the 2009 program

Under the guidance of guest lecturers, including Steven Roth ’77, arts marketing consultant, and Charlotte Landrum, Associate Director of Conservatory Communications, students participating in the project will
develop strategic marketing, advertising, design, and publicity skills in a collaborative hands-on learning environment with a focus on the arts. The aim of the project is not only to provide students with the opportunity to work closely with experienced arts marketing professionals, but also to engage them in learning valuable marketing skills to take into their future workplace as well as a portfolio of materials and experiences gained through the application of these skills to real-life clients.

WHO IS THIS FOR?
This Winter Term project is for students who are interested in any of the following:
Theater / Dance
Design / Graphic Design
Journalism
Art
Arts Management
Film/TV Producing
Music
Art/Museum Curation
Arts Entrepreneurship

Students will market actual arts events in Oberlin and beyond; projects may include on-campus performances as well as events in other cities.

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Internships are an important tool for gaining the knowledge and experience needed to launch an idea. Through summer and winter term internships students can further explore markets and make important contacts. Oberlin's Creativity & Leadership Project is dedicated to providing support for internships that further entrepreneurial development. The project supports internships ranging from “shadowing” and working with a mentor to developing fundamental skills needed to launch a venture successfully.

APPLY FOR AN INTERNSHIP STIPEND (via the Office of Career Services)

FIND AN INTERNSHIP

HOST AN INTERN