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Maharishi School student wins first in entrepreneur competition
by Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, The Review and the Maharishi School School News online
September 2014

This summer Maharishi School senior Zhou Huijun (Queena) was part of a team that won first place among 69 students that composed 19 groups at Babson College for their design of a non-profit tutoring organization.

She attended a five-week Entrepreneurial Development Experience course at Babson at its Wellesley campus in Babson Park, Massachusetts, outside of Boston. Her course-long team project, "Foundation Education," won the award.

Babson’s Summer Study program for high school juniors and seniors is structured to provides a living/learning laboratory for students to focus on applying and advancing their knowledge in business and entrepreneurship. The course challenge was “to create innovative, real-world solutions to social, economic and environmental issues,” working as a team with other students “on new venture ideas,” according to the college’s online course description.

The program chooses students by considering elements within three categories: academic performance, leadership experience, and “passion.” The program looks for students who have challenged themselves academically and demonstrated high achievement, who have demonstrated leadership skills and have been engaged in cocurricular activities with your school or community, and who have demonstrated a “passion” or high self-motivation for hands-on learning

Ms. Zhou's experience in Destination Imagination at Maharishi School helped prepare her for being successful in her Babson experience.

"On the second day of the course, one of the students told me, 'Queena, you really think outside the box.' I told her about DI and how last year we got 8th place in World Competition. I think being able to think out of the box enabled me to come up with fresh and unique ideas to redesign and improve whatever I'm working on."

The projects were judged by two professors and one venture capitalist. Ms. Zhou's first-place team presented their project on the last-day showcase ceremony, attended by faculty, students, alumni, and the business community.

During the course, students had classes in the morning and activities in the afternoon. Team meetings were held at night. Businesses that the students met with included IBM, Levi Strauss, and InnerCity Weightlifting.

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