{"id":13865,"date":"2015-03-28T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13865"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:54","slug":"out-of-the-box-thinking-fostered-at-unique-school-founded-by-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/out-of-the-box-thinking-fostered-at-unique-school-founded-by-tech-giants","title":{"rendered":"Out of the box thinking fostered at unique school founded by tech giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of British ColumbiaOne year ago, Tamara Etmannski became the first Canadian Global Impact Competition winner. The award earned her a scholarship to take part in a 10-week program at Silicon Valley\u2019s Singularity University \u2014 a non-accredited institution that aims to solve the world\u2019s greatest challenges through technology. The university was founded by tech legends Peter Diamandis, of the X PRIZE Foundation, and Ray Kurzweil, of Google.<\/p>\n<p>Etmannski, now a UBC Faculty of Applied Science lecturer, is helping develop a new Masters of Engineering Leadership program, tied to the Sauder School of Business. As the second Canadian Global Impact Competition heats up \u2014 the winner will be announced April 2 \u2014 Etmannski explains how her experience at Singularity University transformed her thinking, and what engineering and business can teach each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ubc.ca\/2015\/03\/23\/out-of-the-box-thinking-fostered-at-unique-school-founded-by-tech-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of British ColumbiaOne year ago, Tamara Etmannski became the first Canadian Global Impact Competition winner. The award earned her a scholarship to take part in a 10-week program at Silicon Valley\u2019s Singularity University \u2014 a non-accredited institution that aims to solve the world\u2019s greatest challenges through technology. The university was founded by tech [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55455,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions\/55455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}