Today is a BIG day. Our teams will be presenting their ideas to Gresham Smith & Partners. We began at 7:00 AM with a strategy breakfast for the HCA projects with Dr. Furse.
At 8:00 AM, Dr. Talbot met with all the Accelerator teams to begin working on their resumes. 3 Great Resumes from the Accelerator teams were used as "examples" as we began to re-examine the resume process: Emily Agostino, Carlos Aro and Mark Bowling.
At 9:30 AM, we all gathered in the Averbuch Auditorium to for Gresham Smith & Partners presentations (http://www.gspnet.com/). The presentations were amazing. After much deliberation, the winning team was announced: Team 2: Carlos Aro, Ahsaki Black, Jay Fettig, Stephen Fox, Michael Gottfried (Leader), Alex Nordholm, Katrice Peterson, Mike Puchon, Adrian Rief (Lead). Coach for the team: Kristin Keiper. Other teams ranked as follows: 2nd Place: Team 4, 3rd Place: Team 1, 4th Place: Team 3, 5th Place: Team 5. The winning team proposed an mixed-use urban development that included a culinary school, an outdoor amphitheater, a design school (furniture, etc), condos, row homes, restaurants and coffee shops. The winning team will be dining with the GS&P team on Tuesday.
After a quick lunch, the teams met at 12:30 to work on the American Airlines projects. This was followed by a Q&A session with Dr. Furse on the HCA project.
At 4:00 PM, teams met with Dr. Talbot to work on resumes for next week's interview sessions for Jobs and Internships.
After dinner, the final session of the evening was an Innovation session centered around the Whirlpool project (which we will present to Whirlpool on Tuesday). We ended the day at 8:30 PM. This weekend is our "push" weekend - very project intensive. Our teams have 6 presentations next week...
