“This is a mentor program on steroids,” said Ted Zoller, director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship. “No one else is doing this.”
The Adams Apprenticeship Program was created to help undergraduate students in their junior year and first-year graduate students by creating an individualized entrepreneurship program for them.
The program will accept 20 apprentices this year — 10 MBA students and 10 undergraduates.
Students selected to participate will have the opportunity to create their own advisory board and choose from a select group of UNC alumni and associates, called Adams Advisers, who will introduce the students to different opportunities.
The students’ boards will be constructed to best suit their needs for advisers who can propel their interests forward.
Launch Chapel Hill entrepreneur-in-residence Laura Zavelson said she is especially excited for the relationships that will be developed through this program.
“Our hope is that they will meet somebody they will make a personal connection with. Knowing the right people will make such a difference,” she said.
The Adams Apprenticeship Program applications will remain open until Oct. 5.