University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Ale Contreras Westermeyer

2017-10-18T23:14:02Z

Alecontrerasw:

'''Ale is a Graphic Design student from ''' '''[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_del_Desarrollo Universidad del Desarrollo] in Santiago de Chile.'''

[[File:Alecontrerasw2.jpeg|frame|Alecontrerasw2.jpeg]]

22 years filled with energy, restlessness, expression, optimism, closeness, warmth, dedication, art and melancholy. Now on my way to becoming a Fellow. 

Countless trips, whole afternoons spent on treetops, complete days staring at the sky have given me quite a different vision of life. Always with a few tricks up my sleeve, from colorful markers to my camera. The art in my life has always been the same: the transmission of feelings, the delivery of experiences.

The day I decided to go to Design school I made a choice of making a career that becomes part your inner self. It’s not a job in which you take off your uniform when you get home and cease to work. We are always designing, communicating, we are machines of constant creation of dreams and ideas. As a Designer, my objective is to be able to reach people’s hearts’s, sometimes changing paradigms, some others only providing moments to remember, to smile about, to meditate or to find taste in the value of detail; make the invisible visible.

Changing the world is a tough task but, step by step and taking care of every little detail we are to communicate and leave a trace. A reminder that in this world, with races at the speed of light, even though it might seem dark sometimes, there are still infinite marvels to be wondered. A lot of people, a lot of worlds. A lot to share, to teach, and above all, to learn.

 
''“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”''- Hermann Hesse 
[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:47:28Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!



= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div>
== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.

== Tactic #2: Desing atractive material. ==

Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.

== Tactic #3: Ask for permissions.  ==

We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.

== Tactic #4: Ready! ==

Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:47:16Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!



= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.

== Tactic #2: Desing atractive material. ==

Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.

== Tactic #3: Ask for permissions.  ==

We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.

== Tactic #4: Ready! ==

Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:46:13Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!



= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.
<div> </div>
== Tactic #2: Desing atractive material. ==

Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.

== Tactic #3: Ask for permissions.  ==

We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.

== Tactic #4: Ready! ==

Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:45:48Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!



= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.
<div> </div>
== Tactic #2: Desing atractive material. ==

Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.

== Tactic #3: Ask for permissions.  ==

We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.

== ==

== Tactic #4: Ready! ==

Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:45:09Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!



= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.
<div> </div>
== Tactic #2: Desing atractive material. ==

Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.

== ==

== Tactic #3: Ask for permissions.  ==

We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.

== ==

== Tactic #4: Ready! ==

Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:37:02Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign. ==
<div> </div>
== Tactic #2: Desing atractive material. Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place. ==

== ==

== Tactic #3: Ask for permissions.  We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building. ==

== ==

== Tactic #4: Ready! Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;) ==

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:36:09Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==
<div> </div><div>See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.</div><div> </div>
== Tactic #2: Desing atractive material. ==
<div> </div><div>Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.</div>
== ==

== Tactic #3: Ask for permissions.  ==
<div> </div><div>We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.</div>
== ==

== Tactic #4: Ready! ==
<div> </div><div>Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)</div>

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:35:10Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Tactic #1: Validate the idea.</div><div> </div><div>See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #2: Desing atractive material.</div><div> </div><div>Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #3: Ask for permissions. </div><div> </div><div>We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #4: Ready!</div><div> </div><div>Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)</div>

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:34:55Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Tactic #1: Validate the idea.</div><div> </div><div>See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #2: Desing atractive material.</div><div> </div><div>Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #3: Ask for permissions. </div><div> </div><div>We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #4: Ready!</div><div> </div><div>Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)</div>

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:34:39Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Tactic #1: Validate the idea.</div><div> </div><div>See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #2: Desing atractive material.</div><div> </div><div>Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #3: Ask for permissions. </div><div> </div><div>We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #4: Ready!</div><div> </div><div>Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)</div>

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:34:19Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Tactic #1: Validate the idea.</div><div> </div><div>See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #2: Desing atractive material.</div><div> </div><div>Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #3: Ask for permissions. </div><div> </div><div>We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #4: Ready!</div><div> </div><div>Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)</div>

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T16:33:58Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Tactic #1: Validate the idea.</div><div> </div><div>See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #2: Desing atractive material.</div><div> </div><div>Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #3: Ask for permissions. </div><div> </div><div>We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #4: Ready!</div><div> </div><div>Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)</div>

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T15:21:05Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =
<div> </div><div> </div>
*Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.

*Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
<div> </div><div> </div><div>Reflection: At first sight, some of the audience will be interested in going to visit the building, getting to know about what happens there, and take part of the projects. Also, it will probably be a minor number of people. Improving the screensaver with an incentive, can bring more people to get to know the place and later, eventually, become interested in the building itself and its projects.</div><div> </div><div>Adaptation: At first, my idea was to make students aware of a place that could give them tools for innovation that they didn't have nor use through a publicity that was going to be deployed as a wallpaper in the lab. computers (wich are pretty much used by every student nowadays). But seeing the board made me realize that this could be a lot bigger, I think that if we manage to set a plan that develope this big abstract "innovation" concept through different and more tangible aspects like (mindsets philosophy, coding, etc) in a ten month period that could be displayed as a thematic publicity that engage with students in all ways (Social media, faculty banners, apparel, etc). A big opportunity could be created for different segments to relate. For example, entrepreneurs could be involved in the process so they can expose their projects to the students but also to different market sponsors that could be interested like (Hardware, software, telecommunications, etc) in the networks created. In this process, students can engage with entrepreneurs and even create relationships that could become collaborative projects. This of course enabled by a well designed program/campaing that could lure stundents to this activities.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Tactic #1: Validate the idea.</div><div> </div><div>See if it is feeasible to change computer's wallpapers and carry out the campaign.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #2: Desing atractive material.</div><div> </div><div>Design wallpapers and broadcast material, that can really atract stutend to the place.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #3: Ask for permissions. </div><div> </div><div>We have to get the permissions to change computer's wallpapers, to be able to diffuse and use the building.</div><div> </div><div>Tactic #4: Ready!</div><div> </div><div>Do the activities and invitations. Very important: Buy the pizza! ;)</div>

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T13:53:06Z

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

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== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =

 
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Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T13:42:46Z

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

Before doing anything, it'll be better to start presenting the idea to faculty members and people from iCubo to get validation and feedback.

== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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</li>
</ul>
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Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.
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Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T13:41:04Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

Before doing anything, it'll be better to start presenting the idea to faculty members and people from iCubo to get validation and feedback.

== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =


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Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T13:39:10Z

Alecontrerasw:

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= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

Before doing anything, it'll be better to start presenting the idea to faculty members and people from iCubo to get validation and feedback.

== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

= Strategy #4: Change Places for Students =

<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.</li>
</ul>

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T13:30:30Z

Alecontrerasw:

= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

Before doing anything, it'll be better to start presenting the idea to faculty members and people from iCubo to get validation and feedback.

== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: =

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=

= Related Links: =

Universidad del Desarrollo: 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_del_Desarrollo http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_del_Desarrollo]

Fall 2017 students:
<div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicolas_Osben http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicolas_Osben]</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicole_Pollak http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicole_Pollak]</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Felipe_Garate http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Felipe_Garate]</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ale_Contreras_Westermeyer http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ale_Contreras_Westermeyer]</div>
[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:Universidad del Desarrollo Student Priorities

2017-10-05T13:28:24Z

Alecontrerasw:

= Fall 2017 Priorities:  =

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses. 
<div> </div><div>Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.  </div><div> </div><div>Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.</div>
The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers. 

= Strategy #1: I&E Web Page =

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea ==

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

== Tactic #2: Prototype ==

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

== Tactic #3: Official permission ==

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

== Tactic #4: Web page launch ==

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

= Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas =

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that. 

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

#They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
# Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday. 
#Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

== Tactic #1: Validate the idea. ==

Before doing anything, it'll be better to start presenting the idea to faculty members and people from iCubo to get validation and feedback.

== Tactic #2: Test the idea. ==

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.  

== Tactic #3: Paperwork ==

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it. 

== Tactic #4: Ready to go! ==

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

= Strategy #3: S'''tep by Step Innovation Program''' =

 

The strategy consists in creating a “step by step” program in which students can acquire tools for detecting problems that affect our society and have new ideas for solving them.

This program will be divided on monthly sessions. Each month we will develop different contingent issues. We will have two meetings per month. Students will be divided in groups.

 

The first activity is talking about our educational problems. This activity had 2 parts:

*First: write about problems that you can see.

*Second: share what you wrote.

 

First part: We gave the chance to students from all the campus to meet us at Espacio I. We bought some candies for motivating them. The idea was to create a new instance in which students can talk each other and present what problems they see in our campus that can have a direct or indirect impact in our society.

We gave them a paper and asked them to write problems at our campus that might have impact in our city, so they can express calmly their vision about our problems.

Second part: After they wrote in the paper, we gave them the chance to speak and talk about the problem they think we have at the campus. Here is when students started talking each other and exchanging point of views of why this problems exist. Few students proposed well presented problems, the others were not able to do it.

Finished this activity we realized that most of students were not able to analyse deeply our educational system. They did not have enough tools to present problems in an appropriate way. Then, we knew that we needed a mentor who can give us that critical vision and empathy tools for being able to be at different positions and know how it feels. So, we decided to improve our program by having experimented mentors in our sessions so they can work with the groups.

 

== Tactic #1: Validate idea ==
<div></div>
Before the big initiation, we need to talk with our managers so we can present them the program and get some feedback so that we can improve it.

== Tactic #2: Meeting #0 ==
<div></div>
We must test our idea and see how students react to this new program.

== Tactic #3: “Yes, you can”. ==
<div></div>
We must ask for the adecuated permissions to the people in charge of Espacio I, so we can use that place.

== Tactic #4: “We are in!”. ==
<div></div>
After all the tactics we can begin to develop our program.

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= Strategy #4: =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Design a poster and leave it in every computer as a wallpaper to motivate students to go to the Plaza i, and there they have an induction of the place.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Modification: Add to the screensaver (poster) an incentive, for example free pizza, to go visit the building.</li>
</ul>

= Related Links: =

Universidad del Desarrollo: 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_del_Desarrollo http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_del_Desarrollo]

Fall 2017 students:
<div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicolas_Osben http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicolas_Osben]</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicole_Pollak http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicole_Pollak]</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Felipe_Garate http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Felipe_Garate]</div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ale_Contreras_Westermeyer http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ale_Contreras_Westermeyer]</div>
[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Fellow:Ale Contreras Westermeyer

2017-09-11T01:34:55Z

Alecontrerasw:

'''Ale is a Graphic Design student from ''' '''Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago de Chile.'''

[[File:Alecontrerasw2.jpeg|frame]]

22 years filled with energy, restlessness, expression, optimism, closeness, warmth, dedication, art and melancholy. Now on my way to becoming a Fellow. 

Countless trips, whole afternoons spent on treetops, complete days staring at the sky have given me quite a different vision of life. Always with a few tricks up my sleeve, from colorful markers to my camera. The art in my life has always been the same: the transmission of feelings, the delivery of experiences.

The day I decided to go to Design school I made a choice of making a career that becomes part your inner self. It’s not a job in which you take off your uniform when you get home and cease to work. We are always designing, communicating, we are machines of constant creation of dreams and ideas. As a Designer, my objective is to be able to reach people’s hearts’s, sometimes changing paradigms, some others only providing moments to remember, to smile about, to meditate or to find taste in the value of detail; make the invisible visible.

Changing the world is a tough task but, step by step and taking care of every little detail we are to communicate and leave a trace. A reminder that in this world, with races at the speed of light, even though it might seem dark sometimes, there are still infinite marvels to be wondered. A lot of people, a lot of worlds. A lot to share, to teach, and above all, to learn.

 
''“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”''- Hermann Hesse 
[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Ale Contreras Westermeyer

2017-09-11T01:34:50Z

Alecontrerasw:

'''Ale is a Graphic Design student from ''' '''Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago de Chile.'''

[[File:Alecontrerasw2.jpeg|frame|Alecontrerasw2.jpeg]]

22 years filled with energy, restlessness, expression, optimism, closeness, warmth, dedication, art and melancholy. Now on my way to becoming a Fellow. 

Countless trips, whole afternoons spent on treetops, complete days staring at the sky have given me quite a different vision of life. Always with a few tricks up my sleeve, from colorful markers to my camera. The art in my life has always been the same: the transmission of feelings, the delivery of experiences.

The day I decided to go to Design school I made a choice of making a career that becomes part your inner self. It’s not a job in which you take off your uniform when you get home and cease to work. We are always designing, communicating, we are machines of constant creation of dreams and ideas. As a Designer, my objective is to be able to reach people’s hearts’s, sometimes changing paradigms, some others only providing moments to remember, to smile about, to meditate or to find taste in the value of detail; make the invisible visible.

Changing the world is a tough task but, step by step and taking care of every little detail we are to communicate and leave a trace. A reminder that in this world, with races at the speed of light, even though it might seem dark sometimes, there are still infinite marvels to be wondered. A lot of people, a lot of worlds. A lot to share, to teach, and above all, to learn.

 
''“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”''- Hermann Hesse 
[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-10T03:10:26Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame]]''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In hugging, as in life, there will be'<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

<div>[[File:Abrazosgratis5.png|frame]][[File:Abrazosgratis6.png|frame]] </div><div> </div><div>'''''Written by: [[Ale Contreras Westermeyer|Ale Contreras Westermeyer]], Nadia Fereydooni, Wim Kamerman, Robert Lambert, Connor McCormick, Eray Tufan.'''''</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; list-style: none none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px;">
<li></li>
</ul>
</div>
[[Category:Guides]]

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-10T03:09:44Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame|Abrazosgratis3.png]]''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In hugging, as in life, there will be'<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

<div>[[File:Abrazosgratis5.png|frame|Abrazosgratis5.png]][[File:Abrazosgratis6.png|frame|Abrazosgratis6.png]] </div><div> </div><div>'''''Written by: [[Ale Contreras Westermeyer|Ale Contreras Westermeyer]], Nadia Fereydooni, Wim Kamerman, Robert Lambert, Connor McCormick, Eray Tufan.'''''</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; list-style: none none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px;">
<li></li>
</ul>
</div>

[[Category: Guides]]

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-10T03:09:08Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame|Abrazosgratis3.png]]''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In hugging, as in life, there will be'<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

<div>[[File:Abrazosgratis5.png|frame|Abrazosgratis5.png]][[File:Abrazosgratis6.png|frame|Abrazosgratis6.png]] </div><div> </div><div>'''''Written by: [[Ale Contreras Westermeyer|Ale Contreras Westermeyer]], Nadia Fereydooni, Wim Kamerman, Robert Lambert, Connor McCormick, Eray Tufan.'''''</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; list-style: none none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px;">
<li></li>
</ul>
</div>

[Category: Guides]

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:36:48Z

Alecontrerasw:

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:36:25Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame|Abrazosgratis3.png]]''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In hugging, as in life, there will be'<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

<div>[[File:Abrazosgratis5.png|frame|Abrazosgratis5.png]][[File:Abrazosgratis6.png|frame|Abrazosgratis6.png]] </div><div> </div><div>'''''Written by: [[Ale Contreras Westermeyer|Ale Contreras Westermeyer]], Nadia Fereydooni, Wim Kamerman, Robert Lambert, Connor McCormick, Eray Tufan.'''''</div>

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:35:53Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame]]''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In hugging, as in life, there will be'<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

<div>[[File:Abrazosgratis5.png|thumb]][[File:Abrazosgratis6.png|thumb]] </div><div> </div><div>'''''Written by: [[Ale Contreras Westermeyer|Ale Contreras Westermeyer]], Nadia Fereydooni, Wim Kamerman, Robert Lambert, Connor McCormick, Eray Tufan.'''''</div>

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:35:20Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame|Abrazosgratis3.png]]''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In hugging, as in life, there will be'<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div>[[File:Abrazosgratis5.png]][[File:Abrazosgratis6.png]] </div><div> </div><div>'''''Written by: [[Ale_Contreras_Westermeyer|Ale Contreras Westermeyer]], Nadia Fereydooni, Wim Kamerman, Robert Lambert, Connor McCormick, Eray Tufan.'''''</div>

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:29:14Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame]]''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be'<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis4.png]]

<div>[[File:Abrazosgratis5.png]][[File:Abrazosgratis6.png]] </div>

File:Abrazosgratis6.png

2017-09-09T22:23:34Z

Alecontrerasw:

File:Abrazosgratis5.png

2017-09-09T22:22:56Z

Alecontrerasw:

File:Abrazosgratis4.png

2017-09-09T22:21:57Z

Alecontrerasw:

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:20:34Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame|Abrazosgratis3.png]]''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be'<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:19:55Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Abrazosgratis3.png|frame]]“In hugging, as in life, there will be''''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”''

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!
<div> </div>

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:18:29Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”''

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!
<div> </div>

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:16:59Z

Alecontrerasw:

== <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!” ==

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people? 

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include: =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success '''Timing''' =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!
<div> </div>

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:16:21Z

Alecontrerasw:

== <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!” ==

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people? 

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester. The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus. Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.
</li>
<li>
Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.
</li>
<li>
Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.
</li>
<li>
Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.
</li>
<li>
Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.
</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success '''Timing'''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.
'' ''
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”'' Mahmoud said.

= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.
</li>
</ul>



<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!
<div> </div>

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:13:51Z

Alecontrerasw:

''<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”''
 

==
= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

== <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept ==

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?
==

==
== <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester.
==

==
== <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Importance ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus.
==

==
== <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simplicity ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.
==

==
= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes =
==

==
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes of this event include:

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.
</li>
<li>
Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.
</li>
<li>
Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.
</li>
<li>
Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.
</li>
<li>
Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.
</li>
</ul>
==

 

==
= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success =
==

 

==
== <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timing ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.
==

==
== <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.
==

==
''“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,”''Mahmoud said.
==

 

==
= <span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
== Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days. ==
</li>
<li>
== Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’. ==
</li>
<li>
== Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost. ==
</li>
</ul>
==

 

==
= <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!
<div> </div> ==

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:06:20Z

Alecontrerasw:

== ''<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”'' ==

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.
 
<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.
</li>
<li>
Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.
</li>
<li>
Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.
</li>
<li>
Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.
</li>
<li>
Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.
</li>
</ul>
 
<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timing

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,” Mahmoud said.
 
<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization:

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.
</li>
</ul>
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!
<div> </div>

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:05:29Z

Alecontrerasw:

== ''<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”'' ==

[[File:Abrazosgratis2.png|thumb]]

== ==

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</li>
<li>Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</li>
<li>Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</li>
<li>Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</li>
<li>Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timing

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,” Mahmoud said.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization:

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:03:02Z

Alecontrerasw:

== ''<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!”'' ==

[[File:Abrazosgratis2.png|frame|Abrazosgratis2.png]]

== ==

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.
</li>
<li>
Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.
</li>
<li>
Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.
</li>
<li>
Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.
</li>
<li>
Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.
</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timing

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,” Mahmoud said.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization:

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud’s event
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.
</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling the program

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T22:02:17Z

Alecontrerasw:

== <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In hugging, as in life, there will be rejection. Don’t worry about it, keep doing good!” ==

[[File:Abrazosgratis2.png|border|Abrazosgratis2.png]]

== ==

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of the problems in the world today, everyone could use a little more love in their lives, so having an easy, low stress way to do that can make a large impact on the campus and everyone in it, so what easier way is there than giving hugs to people?

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Origin

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a ‘Free Hugs’ event on campus came about as an idea to “spread the love” as students get back in the swing of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Importance

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event gave students a way to talk about how they feel, what kind of things they might want changed on the campus, and someone with whom to talk. The goal was to make students more comfortable on the campus.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simplicity

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the major advantages of this initiative was the simplicity of the idea and its execution. A Free Hugs event can create a big impact on individual students. This big impact was seen as especially true for new students who did not yet feel included in their university community.

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible outcomes of this event include:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.
</li>
<li>
Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.
</li>
<li>
Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.
</li>
<li>
Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.
</li>
<li>
Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.
</li>
</ul>

<span style="font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key elements of success

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timing

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud leveraged existing welcome events on campus to ensure that many students would be in the vicinity when they held the event. This ensured that the event was properly framed in the students’ minds as a welcome event, and it increased the number of students that Mahmoud was able to reach. Other options include stressful times like examination periods or the ends of the semester.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentality

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people don’t want a hug, Mahmoud cautioned his team that this might be the case, and stressed that it’s not the team’s job to force anyone to hug them. Their purpose there was to share some love with the people that passed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Some people just don’t like touching people, or it's a cultural thing, or whatever. Don’t force hugs on people! You can just smile at them and try and spread love through some other way instead!,” Mahmoud said.

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<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters.  Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to scale the program is asking those who receive free hugs to pass it on to others. So instead of having 2 agents giving out hugs, there are an increasing number of huggers, creating viral love on campus!

Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T21:56:41Z

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Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T21:56:06Z

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Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T21:55:33Z

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Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T21:54:36Z

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Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T21:53:55Z

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Resource:How and why you should organize a 'Free Hugs' event to kickoff the school year

2017-09-09T21:53:06Z

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2017-09-09T21:51:21Z

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