Welcome to Milking the Rhino: Innovative Solutions Showcase!
Milking the Rhino is an award-winning documentary produced by Kartemquin Films that examines environmental conservation from the perspective of people who live with wildlife and offers a complex, intimate portrait of two community-based conservation efforts in Kenya and Namibia. It tells intimate and complex stories of Maasai and Himba communities trying to break out of poverty by leveraging and protecting their surrounding natural resources.
Inspired by Milking The Rhino, Penn State has created the Innovative Solutions Showcase for students from all majors as a venue to foster critical thinking about sustainable community development, developmental entrepreneurship, and the role of technology in enabling new solutions to global inequities. We want students to explore the ethical intricacies of globalization and loss of indigenous cultures, and the role technology plays in fostering and hurting sustainable self-determined development.
Student teams from across the world are invited to articulate their understanding of the challenges faced by indigenous communities in Africa with regard to wildlife and natural resource management, conservation, and sustainability. The teams will then draw from their academic areas to conceptualize and effectively communicate innovative and sustainable solutions to empower indigenous people and foster development by leveraging local resources. Students will prepare three-minute video pitches which will be rated by a five-member interdisciplinary panel of referees. The mechanics and logistics of the showcase, important dates and resources are presented on this website.
The Milking the Rhino: Innovative Solutions Showcase is hosted by the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program at Penn State. Sponsors include the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK), Marjorie Grant Whiting Center for Humanity, Arts and the Environment, Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Office of Student Activities, Center for Global Studies, School of International Affairs & the Dickinson School of Law, and Johnson and Johnson.
Please join our mailing list list to receive information on important dates and events. Email [email protected] for more information, questions or comments.
Inspired by Milking The Rhino, Penn State has created the Innovative Solutions Showcase for students from all majors as a venue to foster critical thinking about sustainable community development, developmental entrepreneurship, and the role of technology in enabling new solutions to global inequities. We want students to explore the ethical intricacies of globalization and loss of indigenous cultures, and the role technology plays in fostering and hurting sustainable self-determined development.
Student teams from across the world are invited to articulate their understanding of the challenges faced by indigenous communities in Africa with regard to wildlife and natural resource management, conservation, and sustainability. The teams will then draw from their academic areas to conceptualize and effectively communicate innovative and sustainable solutions to empower indigenous people and foster development by leveraging local resources. Students will prepare three-minute video pitches which will be rated by a five-member interdisciplinary panel of referees. The mechanics and logistics of the showcase, important dates and resources are presented on this website.
The Milking the Rhino: Innovative Solutions Showcase is hosted by the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program at Penn State. Sponsors include the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK), Marjorie Grant Whiting Center for Humanity, Arts and the Environment, Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Office of Student Activities, Center for Global Studies, School of International Affairs & the Dickinson School of Law, and Johnson and Johnson.
Please join our mailing list list to receive information on important dates and events. Email [email protected] for more information, questions or comments.