The Hive

Valentine's Day Card Making
2019-02-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Learn cool card-making techniques and use all kinds of crafty materials to show the important people in your life how much you care about them!

Tools For Generative Thinking
2019-02-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Come explore the science behind creativity and learn tools to enhance your ability to generate great ideas. Get beyond the sameness, get beyond the ordinary, get to something truly new and different. Whether it’s ideas for a new way to solve a complex problem, growing awareness for your cause, raising funds, naming a student club, starting the next big thing … or something else, these tools will help boost your generative thinking. Peppered with real-life stories, this interactive workshop will share tips on how to put these tools into practice. See those ideas fly!
Jo Thorogood is a partner at The Sage Network, a group of ideation and facilitation professionals. Jo has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small businesses, and start-ups across many different industries–from media to medical, paint to pain meds, sound to soup. She has lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Finland, and the US.

Marketing Design 101
2019-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Figure out how you can get an edge on promoting your club or event. Learn the ins and outs of grid, color, imagery, and font for creating beautiful and effective flyer, poster, and presentation designs with the Claremont Marketing Group.

Lean Startup for Social Impact
2019-02-27 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Put on your entrepreneurial thinking cap and participate in a simulation designed to show how you can apply lean startup principles to maximize social impact. Take on the role of a pair of first-time founders and work in teams to figure out the most efficient and effective ways of leveraging new business models to address a health and education issue in the developing world. Led by Jivika Rajani.
Jivika Rajani is the founder and CEO of Aspir8 (Aspire + Innovate). Active in three transnational time zones and counting, Aspir8 exists to bring social innovation and entrepreneurship education into the mainstream – whether it be at schools and universities, or in more non-traditional, creative environments and corporate settings.

36 Questions To Make Friends With Anyone
2019-01-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Come to this workshop to discover 36 questions that will help you make friends with [almost] anyone! Come to have fun, listen well, and maybe make a lifelong friend!
This event is loosely based on this New York times article and psychology research: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html?ref=oembed
The questions take about 45 minutes to discuss—and they almost always make two people feel better about each other and want to see each other again, according to social psychology researcher Arthur Aron of the Interpersonal Relationships Lab at Stony Brook University in New York, who published his results in “The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness” in Personality and Social Psychology.

How To Change Your Future In 3 Easy Steps!
2019-01-29 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
A three-part workshop on how you can get the life you want taught by world-renowned mindfulness expert and CGU professor Jeremy Hunter.
See his TED talk for a taste of what to expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-j6Qfj8udg
This is a multi-part workshop with a limited number of spaces available, so you must sign up for all three Tuesdays evenings. Workshops will be held on 1/29, 2/5, and 2/12, from 7-8:30pm.
1. Enhance Your Power of Attention

2. Arm Yourself Against Attention Hijackers

3. Make Something to Make the Change Stick
RSVP link: https://goo.gl/forms/x74S0Kl7uSPdwapD3

Metalsmithing workshop 2
2018-10-29 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Design and create a silver pendant (one per person), for yourself or a friend. Collaborate with others to learn about the design process, silversmithing, and indulge in your creative side. Spots are extremely limited. Please sign up if you are sure you can make it!
sign up here:
https://goo.gl/forms/gLG7IJucRnQM7qUi1

Warp and Weft: Negotiating Cultural Spaces Pop-up Art Exhibition and Workshop
2018-10-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Commons — The Hive, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Dougall Paulson will be hosting a workshop on negotiating culture, identity, and the loom, ending with a tour and reception at the museum.

Creating New Habits
2018-11-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
What drives the creation of new habits? Learn a bag of tricks to create new habits in yourself to apply to personal or professional goals.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1990006624394545/

Product Management Workshop
2018-10-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
This will be an interactive experience designed to let you experience what Product Management is, what it’s like to be a Product Manager and what ypes of companies hire them.

Blue Tape Mural
2018-09-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Come learn about the cool things you can do with blue tape! We will be collectively creating this years annual hive blue tape mural that will stay up until the next academic year.

What Drives: Creative Research
2018-04-13 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States

Hive Product Management Workshop
2018-03-27 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CA
Registration limited to 20. Please sign up here:
https://goo.gl/forms/E1tNjusk76vSVNda2
OFO bikes: Love them or hate them??
And, what is product management anyway? A fad? A ticket to big bucks and happiness? Two boring words connected?
This workshop will give you an experience in being a Product Manager. We’ll engage in a real exercise, using product management tools to decide on real life moves and predicting what will happen in a large-scale product test we are all in the middle of: OFO bikes. Learn how product decisions are made and make them.
The workshop will be led by Hive Director Fred Leichter calling upon his years of industry experience as a designer, product manager and manager of product managers. We also have participation from OFO’s product team in SoCal.
Co-sponsored by Pomona Ventures and the Hive.

Intro to Screen Printing
2018-03-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Commons — The Hive, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States

The Interview - Empathetic Listening and Recording
2018-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive at the Claremont Colleges, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Everyone and their mother has a podcast these days. Maybe you’ve even thought of making your own. Come try for yourself in a low-stakes, collaborative environment!
In the first workshop of three, we will provide technical recording knowledge, while exploring the power of listening and being listened to. We will learn how to use microphones and practice recording interviews!
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Join us for a series of three workshops exploring the podcast creation process and the technical and interpersonal skills it requires. Each workshop will introduce technical skills (using a mic, storyboarding, audio software) and their respective real-world corollary (empathetic listening, narrative storytelling, clear communication). These workshops will give you the tools necessary to understand, create, and share the stories around you.
All workshops build towards one final product — a collaborative podcast created by all participants. But you should feel free to come to as many as you like.
Workshop #1: The Interview – Empathetic Listening and Recording Confidence
Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/351241928693275/
Workshop #2: Storyboarding – Creating Compelling Narratives
Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1855143271173562/
Workshop #3: Audio Editing – Make it Sound Good
Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1154271541380505/
These workshops are a collaboration between The Hive and Disco. https://www.discursive.co

Podcasting Workshops
2018-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive at the Claremont Colleges, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Everyone and their mother has a podcast these days. Maybe you’ve even thought of making your own. Come try for yourself in a low-stakes, collaborative environment!
Join us for a series of three workshops exploring the podcast creation process and the technical and interpersonal skills it requires. Each workshop will introduce technical skills (using a mic, storyboarding, audio software) and their respective real-world corollary (empathetic listening, narrative storytelling, clear communication). These workshops will give you the tools necessary to understand, create, and share the stories around you.
All workshops build towards one final product — a collaborative podcast created by all participants. But you should feel free to come to as many as you like.
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Workshop #1: The Interview – Empathetic Listening and Recording Confidence
In the first workshop, we will provide technical recording knowledge, while exploring the power of listening and being listened to. We will learn how to use microphones and practice recording interviews!
Workshop #2: Storyboarding – Creating Compelling Narratives
In the second of three workshops, we will collaboratively create a podcast “prototype” and delve into different forms of communicating and storytelling. We will listen to the interviews recorded in the first workshop and collaboratively engage with the process of creating a cohesive narrative from them.
Workshop #3: Audio Editing – Make it Sound Good
In the last of the three workshops, we will learn the skills needed to craft crisp, professional sound, turning our initial prototype into a captivating podcast you’d be proud to have your name on.
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These workshops are a collaboration between The Hive and Disco. https://www.discursive.co

Sound Labs Series: 01 Micing
2018-02-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Toolbox — The Hive, 130 E 7th St., Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
For more information go to our facebook: www.facebook.com/pg/Hive5C/events/

Ashoka: Socially Conscious Entrepreneurs
2017-11-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive at the Claremont Colleges, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
At 7pm on Thurs Nov 16th @ The Hive, learn how socially conscious people use empathy and entrepreneurship to solve critical community issues. Join guest speaker, Lorena Garcia Duran, U.S. Director of Ashoka Support Network, in a conversation about how social entrepreneurship addresses both local and global problems. You’ll also get a taste of what it means to be a social entrepreneur and explore design thinking skills you can apply to your own life/business contexts.
Join The Hive and Claremont Lincoln University as we welcome Ashoka. This is a great event for people interested in seeing how entrepreneurship and social impact intersect in an organization!

Action Coding with Nancy Nowacek
2017-11-15 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive at the Claremont Colleges, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
On Wednesday, November 15 at 6pm in Studio 2, artist Nancy Nowacek will run a participatory workshop based on her project Action Coding, a research work that asks the question: what if computer coding were an embodied and visible practice? Could coding be performed and learned in dance clubs, at recess, or in gyms if somewhere between sport, hip-hop and sign language? Join her at the Hive to explore different ways of approaching the project of creating scripts, embodying actions, and performing code.
Snacks will be served

What Drives: Merge and Mix
2017-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States

The Ball Out
2017-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Rains Center for Sport and Recreation, 220 E 6th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States

Sharpie Art Workshop
2017-09-29 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CA
Take an unconventional medium, the Sharpie, and illustrate moments, words, patterns, or symbols that represent the experiences that you’ve shared with friends and classmates this summer. We will have precut and painted plywood ready for you to express your vision onto. Come with a willingness to create and get weird.
You can take whatever you create, but we ask that it be displayed at the Hive for one week. Then, you can pick it up and present it as a gift to someone you care about or yourself!
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ACCESSIBILITY
The Hive is accessible through the entrance facing 7th Street (north entrance), the entrance facing College Ave (west entrance), and the entrance adjacent to Millikan Laboratory and the Cowart ITS building (east entrance). The west entrance can open automatically. For accommodations, please contact the Hive via Facebook message, email (hive@claremont.edu), or phone call (909-607-9248).

Product Management & Design Thinking by Intuit
2017-09-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CA
Ever heard of Intuit’s product management rotational program? Or how about their hack-a-thons and idea jams?
Come learn about these innovative programs from Intuit engineers, design thinkers, and product managers. Hear first-hand experiences from 5C alum on how they engage with the process of design thinking to take groundbreaking products from idea to reality at Intuit, the leading technology company behind turbotax, quickbooks, and mint.
Join us for this great opportunity to see how the Hive and Intuit both fuel collaborative creativity. Stick around for the second half of the event for an informal Q and A with Intuit’s 5C alum.
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ACCESSIBILITY
The Hive is accessible through the entrance facing 7th Street (north entrance), the entrance facing College Ave (west entrance), and the entrance adjacent to Millikan Laboratory and the Cowart ITS building (east entrance). The west entrance can open automatically. For accommodations, please contact the Hive via Facebook message, email (hive@claremont.edu), or phone call (909-607-9248).

Write Your Reps (pt. 2)
2017-04-26 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Tell Washington you care about fighting climate change! Come to the Hive on Wednesday to send a message to your representatives that climate change is real, could be catastrophic, and action must be taken!

Posters for the Planet!
2017-04-20 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Come join the EcoReps at the Hive as we make posters for the upcoming March for Science (4/22) and People’s Climate March (4/29)! A part of our Earth Week celebration, we are showing our support for the planet by making signs supporting climate action and validating science.

Design Thinking for Food & Sustainability
2017-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CA
Are you passionate about developing sustainable food systems? The Energize Colleges Program Fellow for the 2016-2017 year would like to invite you to partake in a hands-on workshop where students, staff, and faculty can work together to develop innovative solutions for contemporary issues with food and sustainability. Open to all of the 5Cs and students of any discipline. Light snacks will be provided!
Fill out this google form to RSVP:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEpgkprYzLoKl8e2ROSIykPlXwmDD7PdZ8F-6kwByd5kGA1Q/viewform
For more information please email energizecollegesclaremont@gmail.com
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ACCESSIBILITY
For accessibility accommodations, please contact
timothy.moore@hive.claremont.edu

Everyday Genius: Disagreeing with an Authority Figure
2017-03-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | CA
Come to this week’s Everyday Genius to reimagine what to do when you disagree with an authority figure (e.g. president, dean, parent, boss) who represents you or acts on your behalf!
We will be using design thinking to:
– Empathize by interviewing a fellow student
– Define the problem
– Brainstorm solutions
– Prototype your solution
– Get feedback and advice on how you might implement the idea in real life
Snacks will be provided! 🙂
For more information, contact the facilitator, Miller Saltzman.
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The Hive is accessible through the entrance facing 7th Street (north entrance), the entrance facing College Ave (west entrance), and the entrance adjacent to Millikan Laboratory and the Cowart ITS building (east entrance). For accommodations, please contact the Hive via Facebook message, email (hive@claremont.edu), or phone call (909-607-9248).

Financial Literacy Workshop with Money Matters Week
2017-02-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
We’re excited to announce that Money Matters Week is coming up!
WHAT IS MONEY MATTERS WEEK?
The 2nd annual Money Matters Week is a week of socioeconomic class and first-generation college student consciousness at the Claremont Colleges organized by Pomona College QuestBridge Chapter.
WHAT KIND OF THINGS WILL HAPPEN?
Quest is organizing a documentary screening, a financial literacy workshop, an open mic night, a 5C party, and much more! Check out the Facebook event below for more information.
WHY IS THIS RELEVANT TO THE HIVE?
The Hive is happy to host the Financial Literacy Workshop segment with Uvaldo Calderón, Interim Assistant Director of Financial Aid at Pomona College. Catch us in Studio 2 from 7-8:30PM on Tuesday, 2/28!
Also just in general, we want to give a huge shoutout to Quest for sparking dialogue centered on classism and class consciousness. Thank you, Quest! We can all show, not tell, or support by attending these events Quest worked so hard to organize. See you there!
ACCESSIBILITY
The Hive is accessible through the entrance facing 7th Street (north entrance), the entrance facing College Ave (west entrance), and the entrance adjacent to Millikan Laboratory and the Cowart ITS building (east entrance). The west entrance can open automatically. For accommodations, please contact the Hive via Facebook message, email (hive@claremont.edu), or phone call (909-607-9248).

Introduction to Design Thinking
2017-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
de·sign think·ing
noun
a human-centered process for tackling challenging, messy problems.
https://vimeo.com/90355541
The Hive is hosting an introductory workshop to design thinking in on Wednesday, 2/15, in Shanahan 2450 on Harvey Mudd’s campus. Whether you are interested in social justice, entrepreneurship, or just looking to flex your creative muscles, you’ll come out of the workshop with some useful tools – and you will have fun.
During the workshop, we’ll spend the time reimagining a specific human need. This is a fast-paced, hands-on activity where participants pair up to interview each other, identify real needs, then prototype and test solutions. NO PREVIOUS DESIGN OR DESIGN THINKING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. We will provide all the information you need to be successful!
Please RSVP in the Google Form below!
https://goo.gl/forms/l5dVOPnEPwfwVk8W2
https://goo.gl/forms/l5dVOPnEPwfwVk8W2
https://goo.gl/forms/l5dVOPnEPwfwVk8W2
ACCESSIBILITY
The Shanahan Center for Teaching and Learning has an elevator. For more details on its location, please see this document: https://www.hmc.edu/facilities-maintenance/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2014/01/shanahan-center-classroom-locations.pdf
Please contact hive@claremont.edu for more accessibillity information and accommodations.
