3A- My Entrepreneurship Story

My first semester of college, I had the amazing opportunity to study abroad in Ireland with the Innovation academy. The entire trip was mainly business based and opened my eyes to so many different sides of Business. Being in the Innovation academy, in the little time I have been enrolled here at UF, I have gained so much knowledge about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, a business leader and an innovator. A project I was given when I was abroad was to come up with a solution to a common problem that we phased in our everyday lives. My group and I came up with a business plan to "create" an app that would make the lives of the college students at Maynooth University (The college we studied at during our time their) more efficient. Our concept idea was called "Mazier", an app that would essentially make the lives of college students at Maynooth easier. After interviewing several students who attended Maynooth University, my group members and I realized we all shared a few common problems.
 1) Many students were unaware of campus events
 2) Navigating campus was extremely difficult due to no signs/maps
 3) Searching for a free computer in the library was extremely time consuming & most times you ended up empty handed

Mazier was to end all of this stress and confusion. Mazier was an interactive app that students can go on and post about different events going on around campus. You could look through published events and even register to be apart of them with the tap of a button. Mazier would also track your location and through an interactive map, show you exactly where you stood on campus and made it much easier to know where you were going. Lastly, Mazier would allow students to rent a spot on a computer at the library for up to three hours. Maynooth's library allowed students to check out laptops for 8 hours and return them. Many times you would walk to the library to leave empty handed because there were no laptops to check out. Mazier would keep count of how many laptops are at the library helping students save time and check out a laptop through their cellular device. Overall, had we developed this app, I think it would have really been helpful to current and incoming students at the University.


Lastly, I enrolled in ENT3003 primarily because it was a requirement to fulfill a requirement for my innovation minor. I never heard of this class before my adviser mentioned it to me but I can honestly say I am a bit excited for this course. I've always enjoyed courses that required me to think outside of the box and this course looks to me like it is right up my alley. I have always wanted to own my own business someday and I believe this course will be very beneficial for me in the long run.