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Month: September 2015
Year in Review
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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
Double Up:
Although I never played fantasy football, many of my friends have managed teams and also played draft kings or ESPN’s Streak for the Cash. I have never liked sports enough to wager anything on games. We came up with the idea for an ICE (Innovation Creativity & Entrepreneurship) project and found that The market is saturated with online gaming sites devoted to only sports so our group decided to make one that catered to all types of betting. We flushed out our ideas a lot and eventually came up with an online platform where users can wager “imaginary points” on everyday events in order to double their balances. Users are able to wager their points on everything from the outcomes of political debates to the number of attendees at an event and outcomes of TV shows etc.
We came up with the idea that the points will not be connected to money directly but they can be exchanged for cash prizes or items such as a PS4 etc. We did market research to validate our idea and found that a majority of the 62 respondents said that they would use it/they saw value in it. Interestingly, we found that of those who responded the majority were women. This is beneficial for our idea because our idea is geared away from sports and the typical “betting type”. Our idea is aimed at customers who would not typically wager on events, as we assumed (often women).
Lastly, we found that cash was the most coveted prize for point exchange followed by gift cards and finally material items. From there our next step is to reach out to potential product partners.
Although this started as only an idea for a project, we are continuing with it and look to develop a working MVP of the app/website in the very near future.
About Me
Phillip hails from Cleveland and is now a freshman International Business student with an interest in International Economics and its effect on currencies. Phillip is an ICE Scholar and looks forward to developing a basic knowledge of entrepreneurship that can amount to a tangible business in the near future. He is working towards a Spanish minor and wants to study abroad for a year, preferably in Chile and China.
Phillip looks to further his understanding of economics as well as grasp a deeper understanding of other cultures while at Ohio State. Phillip is involved in the Fisher International Friends network which pairs international students with students from the U.S. to talk about cultural differences between countries and help international students to adapt to American life. Phillip enjoys traveling and is also an avid golfer and skier.