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Year in Review
[ “Year in Review” is where you should reflect on the past year and show how you have evolved as a person and as a student. You may want to focus on your growth in a particular area (as a leader, scholar, researcher, etc.) or you may want to talk about your overall experience over the past year. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
G.O.A.L.S.
[ “G.O.A.L.S.” is a place where students write about how their planned, current, and future activities may fit into the Honors & Scholars G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.
Global Awareness: Students cultivate and develop their appreciation for diversity and each individual’s unique differences. For example, consider course work, study abroad, involvement in cultural organizations or activities, etc .
Original Inquiry: Honors & Scholars students understand the research process by engaging in experiences ranging from in-class scholarly endeavors to creative inquiry projects to independent experiences with top researchers across campus and in the global community. For example, consider research, creative productions or performances, advanced course work, etc.
Academic Enrichment: Honors & Scholars students pursue academic excellence through rigorous curricular experiences beyond the university norm both in and out of the classroom.
Leadership Development: Honors & Scholars students develop leadership skills that can be demonstrated in the classroom, in the community, in their co-curricular activities, and in their future roles in society.
Service Engagement: Honors & Scholars students commit to service to the community.]
Career
[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career. Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
Artifacts
Attached to this post is my ICE Scholars Business Model Canvas. Our team of 6 worked with the Business Model Canvas to create a memory and battery enhancing phone case known as “The Backpack”. Our team was formulated in a draft type setting as each of us was able to express why we thought we deserved to be on team Backpack. I believe our groups process was very similar to that of an actual startup as we experienced both the good and the bad of the creation process as a team. Our group started by wanting to offer our product to all phone users but quickly transformed to focusing on iPhone users due to market validation found in survey’s. We also as a group started team Backpack only wanting to add memory storage but quickly added the battery enhancement feature once again due to market validation. Through time and hard work our group was able to create an actual digital prototype as well as create a clickable site to accompany our product. I believe the strongest part of our Business Model Canvas is the financial section as we wanted to ensure that all fixed and variable cost were accounted for to ensure that our startup actually got off the ground. Although in a sense this was a hypothetical project I do believe I learned a lot about the start up process as a whole and loved every minute of being able to collaborate with numerous likeminded and creative people. I hope one day I’ll be filling out a real business model canvas with a team just like ours!
About Me
My name is Bryan Babcock and I am a Freshman majoring in finance with a minor in entrepreneurial studies at The Ohio State University. I am fortunate enough to be a member of the universities ice scholars program as well as being an aspiring member in Ohio States cast program at which we partner with the universities Technological Commercialization office. I am very passionate about school and take my studies quit seriously. When I can pull myself away from my classes and work I enjoy day trading as well as working on my own projects. I am a young man who is incredibly passionate about the relationship between finance and entrepreneurship as I am a nationally recognized DECA member for my work in an Entrepreneurship Promotion Project. I love my Columbus sports and everything buckeyes!!
