Educational Opportunities
ACTiVATE® at GW
Are you a woman who:
- has 5-10+ years of experience in technology, business management, or development?
- would like to start a technology-based business and already has an interesting concept?
- wants to start a technology-based business but does not have a specific idea?
- wants to add a product or more value to an existing business but has not been sure how to proceed?
Then the ACTiVATE® at GW Program is for you! This is an innovative and intensive women's entrepreneurial acceleration program taught by experienced entrepreneurs. Designed to last a year, this applied program uses women-tested methods and techniques to unlock the true potential of experienced women - a largely untapped market. In a safe yet aggressive environment, women push past their ideas and their comfort zones to turn those ideas into actions and businesses based on technology. The program provides its students with all tools necessary for successful starting and running of a business.
A year with ACTiVATE® at GW will provide you with:
- the support and connections you need to start and grow a technology company. You will have access to select panelists, mentors, potential funders, and sponsors.
- resources to find a technology-based business idea using technology from a university or government lab to develop it.
- an opportunity to fulfill your entrepreneurial dreams, changing your life forever.
For more information on becoming a part of this program and accelerating your entrepreneurial dreams, please visit ACTiVATE® at GW and/or email us.
Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative
The Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative is grooming tomorrow's leaders through hands-on learning through business planning, mentoring, and core skill-building in areas from finance and negotiation to balancing and prioritization. This program has been awarded the Best National Speciality Program Award by USASBE.
For more information, please visit the Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative's website.
The GW Experience
Students
An Incubator for Ideas
GW student entrepreneurs may apply for spots in entrepreneurship incubator.
A Home Away from Home
Twins study medicine and public health at George Washington.
Student Co-Produces New Album
George Washington student José Curbelo helped produce an album of northern Uruguayan music for Smithsonian Folkways.
A Call to Service
GW students traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico as part of the fourth annual Alternative Winter Break program.
Faculty
Teaching Campaigning in Cairo
GSPM professors teach practical skills to emerging politicians in Egypt.
South African Youth Perform at GW
Latest collaboration between Professor of Theatre Leslie Jacobson and the Bokamoso Youth Centre premieres Friday.
A Life-Changing Course
Today’s reading by Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of “The Far Euphrates,” is the first of six from visiting artists in this spring’s Jewish Literature Live course.
Alumni
Medical Alumni Can ‘Adopt a Doc’
New scholarship program enables graduates to put a face and name to donations.
GW Alumni, Graduate Student Win Fulbrights
Fifteen alumni and one doctoral student will conduct research around the globe with 2011-12 Fulbrights.
Furry Friend Gets Kids Excited About Learning
George Washington alumna helped create a curriculum for elementary school students centered on the dog who used to serve as the postal service’s mascot.