This is the sixth year of celebrating American Archives Month at UMBC! This year we're looking deep into our institution’s shared history with the physical space that we occupy today. On display in the Library Rotunda are photographs, artifacts, and clippings from the Stabler family papers (Collection 27), which were donated by the descendants of Edmund Stabler, a long-serving superintendent of the Baltimore Manual Labor School. An online exhibit about the School will also be available this month. Both of the exhibits were curated by recent UMBC graduate Nichole Zang, with assistance from Special Collections graduate student assistant Tucker Foltz and Archivist Lindsey Loeper. Nichole’s History M.A. thesis informed the work on display; a copy of her thesis, “Holy Temples to Dark Rooms: The Origins of Baltimore’s Juvenile Reform Movement of the Nineteenth Century,” is also available in Special Collections.

American Archives Month is a collaborative effort by professional organizations and repositories around the nation to highlight the importance of records of enduring value. Archivists are professionals who assess, collect, organize, preserve, maintain control of, and provide access to information that has lasting value, and they help people find and understand the information they need in those records. - Society of American Archivists, www.archivist.org

Concepts By Cash, Arts Management Division is seeking several experienced art teachers to work with elementary school age students in after schools programs in Baltimore City. Teachers should have experience doing both 2 and 3 dimensional artwork with this age group and have great classroom management skills. Classes are held two - four days a week depending on location and begin late October 2015.

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12th, 2015

If interested, please send a cover letter and resume to Ms. Hester, ch@conceptsbycash.com

SINGLE CARROT THEATRE SEEKS ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER FOR UPCOMING PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER.

SINGLE CARROT THEATRE SEEKS SOUND DESIGNER FOR UPCOMING PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER.

Inventory Controller

Position:

Inventory Controller is responsible for inventorying the artwork for three fast paced art galleries including unpacking crates, photographing the art, creating database entries for art, and wrapping the art for transport.

Successful candidates must be detail oriented, self motivated, and good with numbers. Carpentry skills are a plus.

If you are eager to learn, we will teach you the skills necessary to be successful! We value a winning personality over experience and will train the right person.

Responsibilities:

UMBC wants to give you $750 for telling us your idea! How can you win cash for your innovative solution?

The UMBC Idea Competition is designed to challenge you to think about problems and opportunities facing society. If UMBC is one of the most innovative schools in the nation, then UMBC students are just the kind of innovators that can really change the world. Now’s your chance to make it happen.

Submit your idea online via the entry form. And you can also grab your camera or smartphone and post a YouTube video in which you pitch your idea. The top entries will be judged, live, by a panel of professionals and alumni along with a crowd of students at the final competition held November 12, 2015, in the Sports Zone in The Commons. The top 3 winners, determined by the results of student and panel voting, will receive cash prizes up to $750.

How to Enter
To enter the competition, complete the UMBC Idea Competition Entry Form, which asks you to (i) describe a problem or opportunity, and (ii) describe your idea for addressing it. Submission forms will be limited to one page, so you will need to articulate the problem you have identified and your idea succinctly. You will also be allowed to post a video to YouTube in which you can personally pitch your idea to the campus. The videos are not required, but they are encouraged as an effective way to communicate ideas to the review committee. YouTube videos are limited to 60 seconds and creativity is encouraged. Videos longer than 60 seconds will not be considered by the judges.

For a full list of the rules, visit http://entrepreneurship.umbc.edu/competitions/umbcs-idea-competition/

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE IN ONE WEEK, 
OCTOBER 8, 2015 AT 5:00PM!

Shayla Adams, CEO and Founder of RemixEducation, spoke to the UMBC community about her experiences as a social entrepreneur with a fast paced life style.

If you missed this informative and exciting workshop be sure to listen to the unedited audio of the workshop available below. Also below is the slide deck Shayla used in her presentations.

Shayla started off this series by talking about how she has always had the “entrepreneurial spirit.” As a kid she would sell toys and lemonade and as she grew, she constantly came up with new ideas to help her community. This was how she started getting involved with nonprofits.

After finishing college she came back to her hometown in Columbia, Maryland and saw that many students from her high school weren’t going to college because of their financial situations. She saw a need in her community and decided to start a scholarship to help first generation college students achieve their goals. This demonstrated Shayla’s first lesson of social entrepreneurship, which is to identify a need in the community.

She then moved to North Carolina to teach, and saw a need to help at-risk high school students. She went on to establish the H.E.R Story Program, where she exposes at risk girls to various post-secondary opportunities and mentoring. After the first year in North Carolina was a huge success, she was asked to open a program in Washington DC. This leads to Shayla’s second lesson of social entrepreneurship, which is to develop a strategic plan before you grow. She said it would have been a lot easier to start the Washington DC program if she had set goals and guidelines that encompassed the next 2-5 years. She said to always have a system set before growing, or it will be very hard to stay on top of everything.

She persevered through the challenges of running two programs in two different states because the problem she was trying to solve was authentic to her, which is the third lesson of social entrepreneurship. She has a passion and a great deal of knowledge about the education system and what at-risk youth needed to thrive. Shayla says to start something that you’re passionate about and then do research on that issue, which is the fourth lesion of social entrepreneurship. It is up to you to figure out if what you want to do is feasible and right for your community.

She then talked about her biggest challenges/surprises as an entrepreneur. She said her biggest challenge was identifying and maintaining leadership. To her, leadership is influencing others to want to follow you and your vision. She also said she was surprised to learned many managerial skills while running her business and was surprised with how often she needed to train others on these skills (i.e. Writing professional emails, how to document activities, etc.)

She suggested checking out the podcast called Startup, which is something she wished she listened to years ago.

She is also looking for student help! Shayla believes that innovative minds are what makes her program better. Below are the opportunities she is offering:

• Innovation fellows needed to help her throughout the year (with the potential to get college credit).
• Tech gurus needed to help her software company, Test4Me, continue to grow.
• Interns needed to work for her early start up involving “coworking spaces” called The Nest.

If you are interested in any of these opportunities please reach out to Shayla directly at shayla@remixeducation.org.