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  Lewis & Clark Winterim students learn from Portland’s entrepreneurial community
  January 22
  What happens when you put 22 students from all academic disciplines together for a week with seven speakers, seven mentors and six judges? You get a deep dive into the principles of entrepreneurship, and everyone learns and creates together!
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  Faculty Approve Creation of Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation Minor
  March 6

  The faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences voted unanimously on March 3 to approve the creation of a minor in entrepreneurial leadership and innovation. The strong support for the new program underscores the fact that the liberal arts and entrepreneurship share a common interdisciplinary approach rooted in understanding people, systems, and methods of creating positive change.

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  Alumna Combines Entrepreneurship, Tech, and Equity to Win Biz Competition
  September 23
  Renee Allums BA ’18 won the fifth annual PitchBlack business competition with her idea #tag that aims to highlight and compensate digital content creators who have previously gone unrecognized and uncompensated.
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  Winterim Immerses Students in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
  January 22

  From January 12 to 17, 33 Lewis & Clark students from around the United States and across the globe immersed themselves in the study of entrepreneurship and leadership. A perennial favorite offering of the John E. and Susan S. Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Winterim is a weeklong experience bringing students, speakers, and mentors together to explore what it means to be an entrepreneur. 

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  New Scholarship Aims to Foster Oregon Entrepreneurship
  September 10
  A new merit scholarship being offered aims to encourage Oregon high school students to study entrepreneurship as part of their liberal arts experience. Scholarships will be available to selected students who apply to begin school in the fall of 2020.
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  Sophomore Nick Lombardi Competes on American Ninja Warrior
  May 28
  Nick Lombardi BA ’21 will appear on the upcoming season of NBC’s American Ninja Warrior, which airs at 8pm on Wednesday, May 29. Lombardi, a student-athlete and entrepreneur, talks about his experience, his shave-ice food truck business, and how his love of Lilo and Stitch helped him get noticed in a sea of applicants.
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  Winterim Applies the Liberal Arts To Entrepreneurship
  January 25
  From January 13 to 18, 30 Lewis & Clark students from all corners of the globe took a deep dive into entrepreneurship and leadership. The flagship program of the John E. and Susan S. Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Winterim is a weeklong experience bringing students, speakers, and mentors together to explore what it means to be an entrepreneur.
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  Entrepreneurship Winterim
  August 20
  Winterim
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  Winterim Applies the Liberal Arts To Entrepreneurship
  January 8
  From January 13 to 18, 30 L&C students from all corners of the globe will do a deep dive into entrepreneurship and leadership. 
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  Entrepreneurial Spirit
  February 7

  Students explore how entrepreneurs think at our annual Winterim workshop.