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ORGANIZATIONS
Road to Silicon V/Alley Cohort
Venture Capital & Mentorship Committee Member
Road to Silicon V/Alley is a program at Rutgers focused on developing pathways to begin successful innovation careers as entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs. Throughout the program, students attend site visits to successful start-ups, technology firms, and cutting-edge corporate innovators. Successful Rutgers alumni and friends in the innovation fields lead workshops that supplement understanding of applied technology. Students form mentor relationships with these alumni and friends, who support their progress through the program. Students will learn multiple different sects of business and what leads to successful intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship.
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Venture Capital Committee. Janice developed and organized the 2020 Rutgers Undergrad Venture Capital Case Competition by closely brainstorming and working with Professor Mukesh and her committee members. Janice outreached and pitched to venture capitalists, startup companies, keynote speakers, and sponsors to build traction and value for the event and led design for the event brochure to be presented to the Business School's dean for approval. Although the event was postponed to the next university semester due to university closings, she can't wait for everyone's hard work to shine in the upcoming semester.
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Hult Prize Competition. Janice entered the global Hult Prize Competition alongside her fellow RSVP teammates and formed Moove, a transportation company that aims to mitigate toxic runoff and methane levels by working with farms and biofuel companies. Janice and her team worked closely with the Hult Prize Advisors, Professors, and Industry mentors at Rutgers and won 3rd place at the Hult Prize Campus Competitions. Her team was invited to pitch at Regionals at Monterrey, Mexico. Read more about her team and her journey here!
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation Living-Leaning Community
Mentor
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation LLC is a first-year program for students who embrace and thrive on creativity, innovation, and big ideas. The program allows students to immerse themselves in entrepreneurship and provides opportunities to take an idea from conception to a business plan. LLC members have exclusive access to classes not available to first-years, as well as provides mini-grant funding for projects and business ventures. The LLC also has exclusive trips to entrepreneurial events and keynote speaker sessions. After enjoying her first year at the LLC, Janice will continue her participation into the 2nd year of the LLC experience as a mentor.
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2020 Startup Grind Global Conference- San Mateo, California. In February of 2020, Janice and her LLC attended the 2020 Startup Grind Global Conference in San Mateo, California, a conference dedicated to bringing together 10,000 innovators, startups, venture capitalists, and aspiring founders in one place with countless keynote speakers, social events, and workshops. Throughout the conference, Janice had the pleasure of learning valuable lessons from keynote speakers (from Reddit, Janice VC, Kickstarter, to Y Combinator) and talking to startup tents and hearing out their journeys from prototype to market. She also had the opportunity to pitch her own ideas and network with fellow aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Discovery Leadership Program. Janice had the privilege to attend the Discovery Program​ where she was first introduced to the LLC and engaged in a two-day leadership session for up-and-coming entrepreneurs. She visited Grow with Google's Headquarters in New York City to learn about identifying, approaching and solving problems, as well as learning how Google's growing influence and application of technology and software is changing everyday education and lifestyle. Janice and her LLC also visited Ironbound Boxing in Newark, NJ to watch and learn first-hand from its founder, Mike Steadman, on how he kicked-off his boxing ring with bootstrap entrepreneurship, outreach and branding, community, and dedication to the youth.
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Exclusive Courses.
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​Janice and her LLC peers took Introduction to Entrepreneurship with Professor Gary Minkoff their first semester, where they learned the frameworks for understanding the entrepreneurial process, including discussions of leadership, strategy, marketing, finance, operations, human resources, supplier management, facilities, and regulatory considerations. After enjoying the class and Professor Minkoff's mentorship, she went on to take Managing Growing Ventures during her second semester to consult for and create an Implementation Plan for a small business.
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Janice also took Rutgers Entrepreneurial Academy of Leadership with Professor Alfred Blake, where she and her LLC learned about important entrepreneurship lessons and heard from speakers such as Newark Venture Partners as well as Rutgers Alumni speak on business ventures and practice.​
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Korean Students Association
Freshman Representative, Operations Manager
Rutgers Korean Students Association is a Korean-Interest group that serves as a voice for the Korean Community at Rutgers and exposes students to traditional and modern-day Korean Culture. The mission of KSA is to promote Korean-American awareness to the different ethnic groups on campus and to strive to be a leading organization in uniting students on campus and raising future leaders. In addition, the organization serves as a resource platform and tends to the needs of its general members by means of academic, cultural, and social events.
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Freshman Representative. As a freshman representative for Rutgers' KSA, Janice was tasked with putting together KSA's biggest annual event of the year: Mr.KSA- a male beauty pageant event that draws the largest audience out of all their events. Janice worked closely and intensely with her fellow representatives and the staff to collaborate with contestants, prepare the script for hosting the event, and to execute the show on the day of the event. Janice led the coordination of recruiting and managing 8 contestants over a 4-month period of planning, filming promotional material, choreographing the freshmen's dance, and communicating requests and show updates with the staff.
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Operations Manager. As Operations Manager as a sophomore at Rutgers, Janice is currently working as the primary event coordinator to schedule and prepare the organization's events for the upcoming year.
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Mission. Janice is happy to work with Rutgers' KSA to promote cultural awareness and host events to create a community for the Korean students on campus. Through KSA, Janice hopes to not only engage in academic activities but also use her Korean culture as a means of learning from and teaching others.
The Daily Targum
News Anchor
The Daily Targum of Rutgers University is a student-written, student-managed, non-profit, incorporated newspaper published by the Targum Publishing Company, with a circulation of 10,000 daily. The Daily Targum is published Monday through Friday in New Brunswick, New Jersey, while classes are in session during the fall and spring semesters.
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News Anchor. Using her public speaking skills, Janice news anchored for her University's Newspaper Press, covering the Targum Takeaways, recapping weekly events, and notable Rutgers-related news. Janice worked with the news staff and film crew to deliver the news and the content.
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