Are you a graduate student or postdoc interested in taking your ideas from early stages to tangible outcomes? Innovate Carolina and The Graduate School are partnering to host a masterclass series on how to make your ideas a reality! Our goal is to bring grad students and postdocs from all disciplines together to learn about changemaking using
Ashoka’s Changemaking competencies as a guide for the sessions.
Key Changemaker skills are:
- Teamwork
- Collaborative problem solving
- Empathy
- Leadership
We encourage participants to attend all three masterclass sessions in the series, but this is not required!
After this masterclass series, participants will be able to:
- Describe and validate their idea
- Work with a team and gain support for their idea
- Embody the four changemaking competencies to transform their idea into reality
Session 1 - January 15th from 2-4pm
I want to be a changemaker! How do I start?
The first session in the masterclass series will start by covering the 4 key Ashoka Changemaking Competencies. Then representatives from The Graduate School will walk students through building a career plan for academic and non-academic careers. This session will focus on the importance of
empathy and
collaborative problem solving regardless of your intended career path.
Session 2 - January 22nd from 2-4pm
I have an idea: How do I know if it’s a good one? How do I protect it? The second session in the masterclass series will discuss how to know if your idea is a good one using
empathy and
collaborative problem solving. Then attendees will learn methods for effectively protecting their ideas, which is an important step for making them a reality!
Session 3 - January 29th from 2-4pm
I have an idea: How do I talk about it and get support? What do I do next? The final session in the masterclass series will cover
leadership, effective communication, and
teamwork. We will wrap up with a quick overview of resources available to students and postdocs who would like to continue on their Carolina Changemaker journey.
