For the class’s main project, students were encouraged to create products that would be useful to consumers and solve problems. Jelle Berkhout, an entrepreneurship major from the Netherlands who is studying abroad at Millikin for a semester, said that he was the “idea man” for his team’s product, called “Racleen,” which aims to create a new way to remove spreads like jams and jellies out of a jar.
“It’s a problem I’ve been facing. I have to stick my knife all the way to the bottom of the jar. It’s not an efficient process and you end up with a mess and wasting food,” Berkhout explained.
While the Racleen team does not yet have a working prototype for their product, they have gotten positive feedback from potential consumers about the idea.
Jesse Blunt
Another team was further along in the process, having already created a working prototype, received feedback…
