Center for Entrepreneurship - Southwest
The Center for Entrepreneurship at Southwest College offers entrepreneurial workshops, training, and specialized entrepreneurial programs in collaboration with our HCC Centers of Excellence of Digital Information Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing. We offer one-on-one and group mentoring services to help develop a personalized pathway for entrepreneurship and innovation with our three student clubs: Innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing.
Building Awareness &
Building Awareness &
Opportunity Workshops, Small Business Workshops, Business Summits, 21st Century Skills Trainings, Student Hackathons & Tech Faires to build innovation and entrepreneurship skills.
We build ChangeMakers for HoustonOffice of Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Inspiring Action!
Inspiring Action!
HCC PitchFest (formerly IDEAS@HCC) Competition, InnovateHER Competition, One-on-One Mentoring, Open Office hours, Access to Houston's Startup EcoSystem and Investors.
We Grow Innovators & EntrepreneursRavi Brahmbhatt, Director
We partner with the local and national community organizations to foster entrepreneurial activity in Southwest College.
We host a citywide student competition, IDEAS pitch competition to help budding entrepreneurs validate their value proposition and earn cash awards to build their ideas of Social impact and innovation!
We host a citywide student hackathon, Inventathon@HCC, to build ideas and solutions for the world’s most pressing issues. It’s a 2-day event of hands-on creative problem solving and rapid prototyping for high school and college students!
We publish a bi-monthly blog/newsletter of past events, student success stories, entrepreneurial success stories, and upcoming evenings on this page.
Resources
Workshops & Training
Current Semester Programs/Events:
- SCORE Houston Workshops (Virtual)
- SBDC Webinars (Virtual)
- HCC Opportunity Workshops (Digital Skills w/ Microsoft)
- HCC Veterans Entrepreneurship Program
Past Workshops and Training
- HCC Innovation Lab Playlist
- SW/Central Opportunity Workshops
- SW/Central SCORE Workshops
- Baylor University Training
- TYE Boot Camp
- Preoccupied Workshops
- BrandUrSelf Workshops
Center for Excellence Collaborations & Events
- Black Girls Code Workshop @ West Loop Campus (w/ CoE Digital Information & Technology)
- Black Girls Code Workshop @ Missouri City (w/ CoE Digital Information & Technology)
- Food Entrepreneurship Panel (w/ CoE Consumer Arts and Sciences – Culinary Program)
- Women in STEM @ Central College (w/ HCC Libraries)
Our Community, Our Money
The Entrepreneur In You
Our Community, Our Money (The Entrepreneur In You), is a show produced with the Entrepreneurial Initiatives department and HCC-TV. The show will focus on topics related to business and the community. The show will promote a variety of activities developed by the Entrepreneurial Initiatives Department, Centers of Excellence, students, partners, and business owners in our community.
The show will air on Mondays, Wednesdays, (6:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.) and Saturdays (7 p.m.) and it is broadcast on AT&T U-verse Channel 99, Comcast Channel 19, TV Max Channel 97, Phonoscope Channel 77 and Cebridge Channel 20. HCCTV reaches more than 700,000 basic cable television subscribers daily in Houston’s city limits and beyond. This show will be an opportunity to drive more engagement to our programs and to highlight the success of our students, small business owners, and community.
Center for Entrepreneurship - Southwest Contact
Ravi Brahmbhatt, MBA
Director, Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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