By: Audrey Zorh & Amma Owusu-Addo
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” —Thomas Edison
Today, we woke up all energized and fresh to an amazing day three of entrepreneurship. The day started with a talk from Mrs. Ruth Kwakwa (the Dean of Students Affairs). She gave this talk which made us realize that we are not only about education but also there is another side to us that most of us barely make good use of—our curiosity—and a university like Ashesi helps young people bring out this other side.
After that inspiring talk, we got back to our classrooms to set-up for our informal peer evaluation. As we went round asking people to explain their project to us, we realized that many of us had come up with very great ideas, which when implemented would solve the problems most of us are facing. One of the ideas which we found interesting was the mobile hospital and the mobile game truck. Such an idea doesn’t exist anyway in our society. At least they will reduce the distances people would have to walk to game centres and hospitals. And these facilities will easily be accessible to the people. Personally, we think this session was very helpful since our friends gave feedback which was very helpful for the improvement of our business plan.
Next, was the ethical considerations in business with Mercy, our facilitator. We really enjoyed this session because of the arguments people brought up and their opinions about ethics. I vividly remember that the first ethical dilemma we discussed in class, someone said they were going to shoot their close friend and take the money. I mean how can you do that? Your close friend?? Really?? Then again, everyone is entitled to their own opinions and there is nothing like a wrong answer as AIX has taught us.
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
Finally, we had our feasibility session with Victor, another facilitator. It basically talked about knowing whether the business idea will work taking into consideration the viability of the business idea, if it will fit in the business budget and if the company won’t run into losses. A lot goes into feasibility especially for the customer. There was active participation from us, the students. There were a lot of group discussions which run until 8:00 pm. Then, we all left for our coaching sessions. Our coaches, Ewurabena and Emmanuel, made our session very exciting which crowned the amazing day that we had. We discussed the rest of the ethical dilemmas. And we were dismissed to our rooms afterwards. What a splendid day.
Mentor student interaction makes this experience even more interactive.
Mentor student interaction makes this experience even more interactive.
The Ashesi Innovation Experience (AIX) 