Today Jeanette and Sven met Nick who showed us around campus. He is studying political sciences, is working in the Visitor’s service and in a micro financing company. He plays beach volleyball and ice hockey. Apparently, sports activities are an important part of life on campus.
In fact the original name is Leland Stanford Junior University. It’s named after the son of the founders who passed away at the age of 15. Not being able to longer take care about their own child they decided ”the children of California” to be their children.” This resulted in the foundation of this university.
Stanford equals the size of 76 Disney Lands. It has the same amount of female and male students. 37000 applications come in every year. From these 2200 are selected and 1700 go on as fresh men. Interestingly, prospect students do not apply for a certain program. They apply for the university and can choose a programme after they spent some time on campus.
The Hoover tower hosts a library as well as an archive of the Russians when they were collecting information about different people during the cold war.
Bill Gates funded the computer science building. Here, also Google was invented. It’s first url was under the umbrella of stanford.edu I other buildings around companies like Yahoo had their starting point.
Joa and Daniel participated this morning in Stanford’s Pre-Collegiate Summer program for Gear Up—Bring Business Opportunities to Life. Stanford’s
Pre-Collegiate Studies launches Summer College Academy, is an innovative learning experience for high school students that begins online and
culminates in a three-week residency on the Stanford campus.
They had the pleasure of giving feedback on 11 business concepts pitched by high school students that ranged from new high-tech bandages for sports to new tools for managing your learning across diverse e-learning tools.
The session was extremely inspiring to see young people solving real-world problems in innovative ways through an entrepreneurial approach. The course is being led by Lena Ramfeldt who has also taught at DV as a guest professor. More information about the summer school below: http://spcs.stanford.edu/news/summer-college-academy/050614
Now, off to a Mingle.