Elli Rao

PennVention is an annual competition, where students teams develop an entrepreneurial idea for a product or a service. The Idea Generation Workshop was created to allow students to network and learn about the innovation process in an interactive environment.

Alumni and students alike came together this Saturday in a full room in the Arts, Research and Culture House for a screening of 1980 Wharton graduate Mitch Teplitsky’s documentary, Soy Andina.

Guest speaker Terrence Deacon, professor of Biological Anthropology and Neuroscience at the University of California at Berkeley, focused on his theory of the non-adaptative origins of language.