Twitter Chat 4/30: Engineering & Entrepreneurship

Cultural Vistas and the IAESTE program return to host an upcoming Twitter Chat with Big Beacon on the subject of “Entrepreneurship and Engineering”.

This topic is at the forefront of our minds at our nonprofit as we welcome a delegation of six German entrepreneurs, selected and sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, for a two-week visit focused on strengthening entrepreneurship between the U.S. and Germany.

In Wednesday night’s conversation, Cultural Vistas will be exploring the topics of:

• The intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship
• The role of social media in start–up culture
• How entrepreneurship and start–ups are changing the face of engineering and engineering education

Join us for the weekly #BigBeacon Twitter chat at 8:00 pm EST on April 30, 2014 to discuss these topics & more.

About Cultural Vistas

A nonprofit organization, Cultural Vistas annually serves more than 5,000 students, professionals, and emerging leaders through career-focused international internships, educational study tours, language immersion and cultural exchange programs in the United States and 100-plus countries around the world. – Learn more at culturalvistas.org.

Follow @CulturalVistas on Twitter

About IAESTE

The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience is a non-profit exchange organization that provides students in technical degrees (primarily engineering and science) with paid, course-related internships abroad, and employers with highly skilled, highly motivated interns  for long or short term projects. With over 80 countries involved and exchanging over 4,000 internships each year worldwide, IAESTE (I-ess-tay) is the largest organization of its kind in the world. – Learn more at iaeste.org.

Follow @IAESTE on Twitter

How to Twitter Chat

If you’ve never Twitter chatted before, don’t worry; it’s very easy. First, get a Twitter account if you don’t already have one, and log in. At 8 PM ET on Wednesday go to twitter.com and type #BigBeacon into the search box on Twitter. Thereafter all the tweets with the hashtag #BigBeacon will show up on your Twitter page. To participate, simply express your opinion by sending a tweet, and be sure to append the hashtag #BigBeacon so other members of the Twitter Chat see you are posting. Alternatively, automate the hashtag search and append feature by using the free service Tchat at http://www.tchat.io.