BY Jay Robb, Faculty of Science
October 2, 2023
There’s learning by doing. And then there’s teaching by doing.
Darren Burke and 46 students are doing both in a new entrepreneurship course offered by the department of Kinesiology.
Burke, who’s the department’s first industry professor, is teaching the course while launching his third company. Students are following Burke’s lead and turning their interests and ideas into mock companies.
Burke holds nothing back and shares everything with the students, including his work-in-progress pitch to investors.
“It takes a lot of guts to be a start-up founder,” says Burke. “Most people don’t realize the amount of time and effort…
