Fwd: [HCSSA Venture Club] Student Power: Create a Start-up from Scratch
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Location instruction:
Audience should go through the Gordon McKay (9 Oxford Street, Cambridge) entrance, take stairs or elevator to the 3rd floor and follow signs to Cruft 309.
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[Harvard CSSA Venture Club - Startup Camp I]
Student Power: Create a Start-up from Scratch
Speaker: Jing Zhang, M.S., Siwen Zhang, M.ed., Ed.D. candidate, Meng Yang, Ph.D., MPH
(Co-founders of Global Peer Support in China)
Time: Oct 30th (Wednesday), 2013, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Place: Cruft 309, Harvard University(Click here to see the map)
Address: 9 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
<Introduction>
Global Peer Support team members will share their experiences of the startup journey as current students. GPS has been recognized as a venture incubation program at Harvard Innovation Lab (iLab), and takes residence at iLab. Global Peer Support (GPS) in China was established in summer 2013 by a group of Harvard students. It is founded on the mission to connect minds. GPS believes that by facilitating personalized, strategically supported mentorship between at-risk Chinese youth and college students from top universities, GPS helps shape a generation of informed, creative, entrepreneurial, independent, and future-oriented new citizens in China. This panel discussion will cover their experience of product design, market research, and implementation as they continue to evolve as a new startup for the China market. They will also talk about iLab experience.
<Short-bio of speakers>
• Jing Zhang is a Master’s candidate in Harvard School of Public Health. She is passionate about making social impact, and served as a volunteer teacher in the rural area of Guizhou, China. She was also actively involved as a ‘Big Sister’ in the Big Sister Big Brother program in Boston. Currently she is a mentor of three high school students, working with them to develop skills that help define their future goals.
• Siwen Zhang is an Ed.D. candidate in Human Development and Education at Harvard School of Education. Prior to Harvard, Siwen earned her M.Ed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she worked as an Assistant Residence Director in the Department of Residential Life. Siwen gained her teaching experience as a Chinese foreign language teacher in Manila, Philippines, while she collaborated with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) on former President Arroyo’s project to equip the Filipino workforce with foreign language competence. She is both a presidential public service fellow at Harvard University, and a spencer fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
• Meng Yang currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow in Harvard School of Public Health. She holds a Ph.D. in Nutrition and a Master of Public Health. At Harvard, She was awarded as the Marco Polo Fellow to improve the communication between Harvard professionals and Chinese fellows. She previously worked as a certified high school teacher in China and a researcher who collaborated with Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Pepsi Co.
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学生的力量：创业从零开始 (分享创业伊始的酸甜苦辣)
演讲者：张晶，张锶雯，杨萌
“全球伙伴支持计划”简介
全球伙伴支持计划（Global Peer Support; GPS）是一个由哈佛大学和浙江大学的学生于2013年夏天创建的旨在为中国青少年提供高质量精神引导和支持服务的教育组织，已成功入驻哈佛大学创新实验室（Harvard Innovation Lab)的长期创业抚育项目。GPS将创新性的构建中国高中生与世界顶尖大学在校生或毕业生之间的交流平台，通过一对一个性化的伙伴支持模式达到减轻中学生对未来的困惑，提高综合素质并释放学习压力的目的。 我们的宗旨是塑造出创新性，创业型，自主独立，拥有未来奋斗目标的新一代中国公民。此次创业讨论不仅是一次创业经验的分享，更是一次难得的现身说法。期待您的加入，让我们共同探讨如何实现从无到有，却又综合国内外资源，并适应国内需求的新一代创业梦想吧。
〈创始人简介〉
张晶：2012年被授予上海交通大学硕士学位，现就读于哈佛大学公共健康学院。积极投入多项社会公益活动，曾参加中国贵州边远地区的支教活动。在美国，她积极参与波士顿地区‘大哥哥大姐姐’非盈利机构，并是三名高中生的导师，帮助她们解决学习和生活中的困惑。
张锶雯：现就读于哈佛教育学院人类发展和教育博士专业，主攻美国移民现状及政策。此前，她获得了马萨诸塞大学教育硕士学位。锶雯有丰富的教学及管理经验，曾是公派菲律宾马尼拉的汉语志愿者，并和前总统阿罗约合作，参与菲技术教育和发展当局有关提高菲律宾工人外语竞争力的项目。她获得了哈佛校长公共服务奖学金，并以校长公共服务学者的身份实习于西雅图移民难民办公室。同时，她也是哈佛教育学院斯宾塞学者，致力于认识、比较并提高中国及美国青少年对公民教育的认识。
杨萌：现在哈佛公共卫生学院担任博士后。她获得了康涅狄格大学营养博士学位和哈佛大学公共健康硕士学位。在哈佛，她被授予马克波罗学者一职以加强哈佛专业人士和中国各届的交流。杨萌有着丰富的教学和研究经验，在知名国际报刊发表多篇有影响的文章，曾经和美国疾病控制中心和百事可乐公司合作致力于提高全世界范围内的公共健康和改善公共政策。
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