Entrepreneurship Report: Amazing Day Three Of Entrepreneurship

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. Continue reading

Participants’ Report: Day Three

By: Albert Essilfie, Daniel Mba, Edem Agbakpe, and Nii Nertey Tetteh

Photo: Participants take on a challenge.

Participants take on a challenge.

Today has really been tremendous. It began when we had to crawl out of bed for aerobics. Our mentor, Nana Yaw woke us up. The way we didn’t biz him up koraa. Then we heard the music and decided to check it out. The weather was really cold, so we decided to get our cardigans, even though they were ineffective. That was a nice way to kick start the morning. After taking our bath and having breakfast, we then headed to the lab for our daily sessions. Today’s sessions were quite interesting. We studied critical thinking, lateral thinking and career options, which opened our minds to a whole lot of new things. For example, when you look at corn, you don’t just see corn, but money, oil, etc.

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Participants’ Report: Day Two

By: Thelma Adjidjonu, Gifty Affum & Claudia Dentu

Photo: CitiFM's Bernard Avle

The #AIX2014 class joins Citi FM’s Bernard Avle for a photo.

Wow! Ashesi. Today was our first, real, full day on campus. If the rains didn’t wake us up, the bitter cold did. Most of us decided to get up and marvel at the foggy dawn. Having to bath with many others really takes us out of our comfort zone but we grinned and bore it and trooped to class. Continue reading