Teaching entrepreneurship means giving students the skills they need to turn an idea into a reality, according to Bill Pugh, professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Maryland. “You have to figure out if building your idea is feasible and what technology you should use,” Pugh said. “You bounce it off other people. Maybe you start implementing it and find it isn’t going to work, or maybe the technology works but it just isn’t compelling, so you pivot. And you keep pivoting until you eventually come up with something that is either useful to you or wows your friends and family. Those are the skills you need to become an entrepreneur.”
An opportunity to foster that process inspired Pugh to lead the initiative for the new 5,300-square-foot Jagdeep Singh Family…