The following is a guest post written by Dr. Tim Lampe, Senior Associate Athletic Director and Adjunct Professor for the Center for Sport Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University. This spring, the Richmond International Raceway (RIR) hosted the 3rd Annual RIR STEM Education Day event. Using a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race as the backdrop to the […]
The following is a guest post by Dr. Tim Lampe, Senior Associate Athletic Director and Adjunct Professor at Center for Sport Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, VA – Months of hard work culminated on Friday, February 13th, when middle and high school students from the Richmond Public Schools (RPS) experienced a special STEM in Sport […]
Entrepreneurs from all over the world have hopes and dreams of one day of developing a product that can eventually be bought by one of the big investors in their industry.
The problem is that the large majority of these individuals aren’t able to show their ideas and products to investors and often times make critical mistakes that perhaps could have been avoided with the proper professional advice.
In recent years, the United States has fallen behind other nations with educating students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Only 16 percent of U.S. high school students are proficient in math and actively pursuing STEM careers. In a world run by technology, where the majority of jobs in the near future will […]
How well do you know your fans? The answer to that question is what will determine profitability and success for sports franchises in the very near future. The last decade brought a tsunami wave of new technology into the home: HDTV, hi-speed internet, DirecTV, LCD flat screens, you name it. That all of a sudden made watching from home a solid alternative to actually going to a game for most fans. Teams responded by investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in infrastructure. We saw the most beautiful stadiums in the world built, larger than life LCD screens and increased Wi-Fi connectivity. Basically, teams did these things because they “thought” fans would want it. That’s where things are beginning to change....
