AI and Entrepreneurship Day 2026
AI: Scary, Amazing, or Something You Get to Shape?
Concordia College's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership is hosting a hands-on day for high school students who are curious about AI and what it means for their future.
Students will explore why AI feels so big and unknown, and why the best way to understand it is to get in the water rather than watch from the shore.
They’ll practice “getting in” with a team-based problem-solving activity.
Teams will join a track* (Health and Wellness, Business and Marketing, Arts and Creativity, or Science and Technology) and work with Concordia student ambassadors to tackle a real problem three ways: with AI, without AI, and together, using their own voice and passion.
Teams will build a solution and then show their work at a poster session where they’ll vote on their favorites.
Students will leave more confident in:
- Their own voice
- Creating with AI authentically
- Solving problems better without losing what makes their ideas human.
Each participant will receive lunch in Concordia’s Anderson Commons dining center and a chance to win a door prize.
AI and Entrepreneurship Day is a day to get curious, get creative, and discover that the future of AI is shaped by the people who show up to shape it.
Register your group size to reserve a space at the event. (Individual registration for your students will be sent to you via email by Nov 1.)
Agenda
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8:30 a.m. |
Arrival, Registration, and Cobber Ambassador Team Intro* |
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9 a.m. |
Welcome from President Irvine and Intro of Heather |
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9:10 a.m. |
”Why AI? Why?!” Opening Comments from Heather, the director of entrepreneurship, and Cobber Spotlight |
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9:30 a.m. |
Workshop: Prompting AI by Tellwell’s founder and Cobber grad Max Kringen |
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10 a.m. |
AI and Entrepreneurship Challenge Instructions and Workshop Transition |
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10:30 a.m. |
AI and Entrepreneurship Challenge Workshop (Cobber Ambassador, across campus) |
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Noon |
Rotating Lunch in Anderson Commons dining center |
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12:45 p.m. |
Showcase and Voting |
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1:45 p.m. |
Reflection and Closing |
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2 p.m. |
Buses Depart |
Teachers and Administrators
A new parallel workshop day for you! Led by President Colin Irvine and Vice President of Student Engagement Dr. Michael Chan, explore the latest strategies for adaptive teaching, learning, and AI.