University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2018-07-16T16:21:33Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus, where he is studying Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

Aristides's involvement in the startup community of Atlantic Canada has reached far and wide. Aristides went to the YES Atlantic Conference on Youth Entrepreneurship in New Brunswick and spoke on a panel about his experiences as a young founder. He has helped begin the process to spread Hoist Halifax Canada-wide, starting with the first chapter in the Hoist network, Hoist Annapolis Valley, located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the location of Acadia University. He also participated in the Shad Valley program in between the 10th and 11th grades of high school, which cemented his love of all things science, tech and entrepreneurship to an even larger extent. Aristides is also fluently bilingual in English and Greek, being born of Greek parents and having a dual citizenship, with fairly good knowledge of French as well. He is also knowledgeable in the area of web development, from being a freelance web developer "on the side" of his schooling and through being the technical co-founder of his startup. Aristides is also a recipient of the Schulich scholarship at Dalhousie, at a worth of over $40,000 over four years.

=== Links ===

[http://atmilios.com Personal Website]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidesmilios/ LinkedIn]

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2018-07-16T16:21:17Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus, where he is studying Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

Aristides's involvement in the startup community of Atlantic Canada has reached far and wide. Aristides went to the YES Atlantic Conference on Youth Entrepreneurship in New Brunswick and spoke on a panel about his experiences as a young founder. He has helped begin the process to spread Hoist Halifax Canada-wide, starting with the first chapter in the Hoist network, Hoist Annapolis Valley, located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the location of Acadia University. He also participated in the Shad Valley program in between the 10th and 11th grades of high school, which cemented his love of all things science, tech and entrepreneurship to an even larger extent. Aristides is also fluently bilingual in English and Greek, being born of Greek parents and having a dual citizenship, with fairly good knowledge of French as well. He is also knowledgeable in the area of web development, from being a freelance web developer "on the side" of his schooling and through being the technical co-founder of his startup. Aristides is also a recipient of the Schulich scholarship at Dalhousie, at a worth of over $40,000 over four years.

=== Links ===

[https://atmilios.com Personal Website]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidesmilios/ LinkedIn]

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2018-07-16T16:20:49Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus, where he is studying Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

Aristides's involvement in the startup community of Atlantic Canada has reached far and wide. Aristides went to the YES Atlantic Conference on Youth Entrepreneurship in New Brunswick and spoke on a panel about his experiences as a young founder. He has helped begin the process to spread Hoist Halifax Canada-wide, starting with the first chapter in the Hoist network, Hoist Annapolis Valley, located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the location of Acadia University. He also participated in the Shad Valley program in between the 10th and 11th grades of high school, which cemented his love of all things science, tech and entrepreneurship to an even larger extent. Aristides is also fluently bilingual in English and Greek, being born of Greek parents and having a dual citizenship, with fairly good knowledge of French as well. He is also knowledgeable in the area of web development, from being a freelance web developer "on the side" of his schooling and through being the technical co-founder of his startup. Aristides is also a recipient of the Schulich scholarship at Dalhousie, at a worth of over $40,000 over four years.

=== Links ===

[http://atmilos.com Personal Website]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidesmilios/ LinkedIn]

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-17T04:42:14Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

== Tactic no.4: Creation of a unified informational system about D.E.S. events via Facebook ==

We would like to create a Facebook group to complement the current Facebook page that exists for the D.E.S. A Facebook group would allow for a more active D.E.S. online community, that could respond to announcements with feedback and start new discussion threads and ideas.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it. We also wish to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enhance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented LaunchDAL Sub-brand =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

This will be a part of a larger marketing/promotional campaign for entrepreneurship events on campus. This campaign will be supplemented by CKDU (university radio) spots, the creation of a unified informational/update system (D.E.S. Facebook group), and other such initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T20:04:20Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

== Tactic no.4: Creation of a unified informational system about D.E.S. events via Facebook ==

We would like to create a Facebook group to complement the current Facebook page that exists for the D.E.S. A Facebook group would allow for a more active D.E.S. online community, that could respond to announcements with feedback and start new discussion threads and ideas.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it. We also wish to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enhance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

This will be a part of a larger marketing/promotional campaign for entrepreneurship events on campus. This campaign will be supplemented by CKDU (university radio) spots, the creation of a unified informational/update system (D.E.S. Facebook group), and other such initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T20:00:54Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

== Tactic no.4: Creation of a unified informational system about D.E.S. events via Facebook ==

We would like to create a Facebook group to complement the current Facebook page that exists for the D.E.S. A Facebook group would allow for a more active D.E.S. online community, that could respond to announcements with feedback and start new discussion threads and ideas.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it. We also wish to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

This will be a part of a larger marketing/promotional campaign for entrepreneurship events on campus. This campaign will be supplemented by CKDU (university radio) spots, the creation of a unified informational/update system (D.E.S. Facebook group), and other such initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T20:00:43Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

== Tactic no.4: Creation of a unified informational system about D.E.S. events ==

We would like to create a Facebook group to complement the current Facebook page that exists for the D.E.S. A Facebook group would allow for a more active D.E.S. online community, that could respond to announcements with feedback and start new discussion threads and ideas.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it. We also wish to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

This will be a part of a larger marketing/promotional campaign for entrepreneurship events on campus. This campaign will be supplemented by CKDU (university radio) spots, the creation of a unified informational/update system (D.E.S. Facebook group), and other such initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T19:58:54Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it. We also wish to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

This will be a part of a larger marketing/promotional campaign for entrepreneurship events on campus. This campaign will be supplemented by CKDU (university radio) spots, the creation of a unified informational/update system (D.E.S. Facebook group), and other such initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T19:56:47Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it. We also wish to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T19:52:45Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it. We also wish to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T19:21:24Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T19:19:37Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T19:18:43Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T19:01:45Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T19:00:57Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T16:12:46Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T16:12:23Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We wish to transform the Collider into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T16:11:40Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space ==

We wish to transform the Collider into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-06T16:09:43Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Promote the use of The Collider =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space ==

We wish to transform the Collider into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Beginner-Oriented New Brand under LaunchDAL =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-05T20:43:47Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Promote the use of The Collider =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space ==

We wish to transform the Collider into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Friendly Common Brand across all Entrepreneurship Activities =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-05T20:41:07Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #4 – Promote the use of The Collider =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space ==

We wish to transform the Collider into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience and entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #7 - Creation of a Friendly Common Brand across all Entrepreneurship Activities =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-05T20:38:16Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= =

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #5 – Promote the use of The Collider =

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space ==

We wish to transform the Collider into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience and entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #6 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #7 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #8 - Creation of a Friendly Common Brand across all Entrepreneurship Activities =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-05T20:36:16Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - "Collider" in the Library  =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Series of Hackathons, Events & Conferences ==

The Collider would serve a great venue for a series of student-led hackathons, events & conferences. The university does not currently host any regular hackathons for students, and that is something that needs to be changed. Our idea is to host a monthly hackathon with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them. 

Events and coferences are in our long term plan, but we definitely plan on hosting at least one big event a year to showcase the amazing students who have come up with innovative ideas for each year.

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #5 – Promote the use of The Collider =

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more.

== Tactic no.2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

== Tactic no.3: Promote the Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space ==

We wish to transform the Collider into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in and work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience and entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should students need it.

= Strategy #6 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #7 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Strategy #8 - Creation of a Friendly Common Brand across all Entrepreneurship Activities =

Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the "right stuff", that it is too difficult, that it is reserved only for business majors, etc. In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability.

== Tactic no.1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material ==

To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that we are striving for.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-05T19:51:26Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - "Collider" in the Library  =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Series of Hackathons, Events & Conferences ==

The Collider would serve a great venue for a series of student-led hackathons, events & conferences. The university does not currently host any regular hackathons for students, and that is something that needs to be changed. Our idea is to host a monthly hackathon with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them. 

Events and coferences are in our long term plan, but we definitely plan on hosting at least one big event a year to showcase the amazing students who have come up with innovative ideas for each year.

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #5 – Promote the use of The Collider =

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more.

== Tactic no. 2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #6 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #7 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-01T20:44:03Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - "Collider" in the Library  =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Series of Hackathons, Events & Conferences ==

The Collider would serve a great venue for a series of student-led hackathons, events & conferences. The university does not currently host any regular hackathons for students, and that is something that needs to be changed. Our idea is to host a monthly hackathon with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them. 

Events and coferences are in our long term plan, but we definitely plan on hosting at least one big event a year to showcase the amazing students who have come up with innovative ideas for each year.

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #5 – Promote the use of The Collider =

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more.

== Tactic no. 2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #6 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Keep Hackamarine running annually to get more oceanography/earth sciences students engaged in E&I. ==

First Hackamarine was a great success. It didn't only help exposing oceanography/earth sciences to E&I, but it was a great turn out regarding collaboration of cross faculty students. Students from oceanography, engineering, arts, phycology, commerce and management formed teams and brought different mindsets to marine problems and came with ideas on how to solve them.

== Tactic no.2: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.3: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #7 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a class-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-01T20:33:22Z

Amilios:

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - "Collider" in the Library  =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Series of Hackathons, Events & Conferences ==

The Collider would serve a great venue for a series of student-led hackathons, events & conferences. The university does not currently host any regular hackathons for students, and that is something that needs to be changed. Our idea is to host a monthly hackathon with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them. 

Events and coferences are in our long term plan, but we definitely plan on hosting at least one big event a year to showcase the amazing students who have come up with innovative ideas for each year.

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #5 – Promote the use of The Collider =

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more.

== Tactic no. 2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #6 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Keep Hackamarine running annually to get more oceanography/earth sciences students engaged in E&I. ==

First Hackamarine was a great success. It didn't only help exposing oceanography/earth sciences to E&I, but it was a great turn out regarding collaboration of cross faculty students. Students from oceanography, engineering, arts, phycology, commerce and management formed teams and brought different mindsets to marine problems and came with ideas on how to solve them.

== Tactic no.2: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.3: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #7 - Creating a class-exchance system =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to lauch such exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

== Tactic no.1: Get in touch with stakeholders to ensure the success of exchange system ==

Class exchange initiative deeply relies on the collaborative support and dedication of various stakeholders on campus. To ensure that the initiative will be successfull, the idea should be clearly delivered to the deans and professors. In this regard, we plan to have meetings to receive their feedback on the class exchange system. We believe this would lead for a better continuation by having the prior aggrement and commitment of affiliated stakeholders. 

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

'''Dalhousie Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-01T20:17:10Z

Amilios:

Dalhousie University Student Priorities

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - "Collider" in the Library  =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Series of Hackathons, Events & Conferences ==

The Collider would serve a great venue for a series of student-led hackathons, events & conferences. The university does not currently host any regular hackathons for students, and that is something that needs to be changed. Our idea is to host a monthly hackathon with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them. 

Events and coferences are in our long term plan, but we definitely plan on hosting at least one big event a year to showcase the amazing students who have come up with innovative ideas for each year.

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #5 – Promote the use of The Collider =

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more.

== Tactic no. 2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #6 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Keep Hackamarine running annually to get more oceanography/earth sciences students engaged in E&I. ==

First Hackamarine was a great success. It didn't only help exposing oceanography/earth sciences to E&I, but it was a great turn out regarding collaboration of cross faculty students. Students from oceanography, engineering, arts, phycology, commerce and management formed teams and brought different mindsets to marine problems and came with ideas on how to solve them.

== Tactic no.2: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.3: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #7 - Creating a class-exchance system =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to lauch such exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

'''Dalhousie Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-01T20:16:18Z

Amilios:

Dalhousie University Student Priorities

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TVR_IMkCNZ0}}

(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=FFWpEvOJMv0}}

(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - "Collider" in the Library  =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Series of Hackathons, Events & Conferences ==

The Collider would serve a great venue for a series of student-led hackathons, events & conferences. The university does not currently host any regular hackathons for students, and that is something that needs to be changed. Our idea is to host a monthly hackathon with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them. 

Events and coferences are in our long term plan, but we definitely plan on hosting at least one big event a year to showcase the amazing students who have come up with innovative ideas for each year.

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #5 – Promote the use of The Collider =

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more.

== Tactic no. 2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #6 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Keep Hackamarine running annually to get more oceanography/earth sciences students engaged in E&I. ==

First Hackamarine was a great success. It didn't only help exposing oceanography/earth sciences to E&I, but it was a great turn out regarding collaboration of cross faculty students. Students from oceanography, engineering, arts, phycology, commerce and management formed teams and brought different mindsets to marine problems and came with ideas on how to solve them.

== Tactic no.2: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.3: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #7 - Creating a class-exchance system =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to lauch such exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

'''Dalhousie Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

Priorities:Dalhousie University - Student Priorities

2017-10-01T20:16:07Z

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Dalhousie University Student Priorities

= Fellow Project Pitches =

== Fellow Projects Pitch - 2016 ==

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(Prepared by Yaser Alkayale and Seline Dogan)

== Fellow Project Pitch - 2015 ==

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(Prepared by Justin Javorek and Dhruv Bhatia)

= OVERVIEW =

Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation.

Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I.

The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project.

Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

= Strategy #1 - Connecting Engineering Students with the rest of the campus =

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events.

== Tactic no.1: Engineering Connect (E-Connect) ==

Create a student-led club on the main campus that will promote our main makerspace on Sexton Campus. This space would serve as place where students can get in initial contact with 3D Printing, Electronics, Raspberry Pi’s and more. This would create a funnel of students on main campus for Innovation Hub on Sexton Campus.

= Strategy #2 - Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) =

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives.

== Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs. ==

We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus.

== Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. ==

By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. ==

In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities.

= Strategy #3 - "Collider" in the Library  =

The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potential.

== Tactic no.1: Series of Hackathons, Events & Conferences ==

The Collider would serve a great venue for a series of student-led hackathons, events & conferences. The university does not currently host any regular hackathons for students, and that is something that needs to be changed. Our idea is to host a monthly hackathon with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them. 

Events and coferences are in our long term plan, but we definitely plan on hosting at least one big event a year to showcase the amazing students who have come up with innovative ideas for each year.

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =

We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on the campus.

== Tactic no.1: Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related events, contests, competitions, workshops etc. on co-curricular database. ==

We have a great co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for the work that they have done, and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs. 

== Tactic no.2: Enable students to enter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

By allowing students to specify their roles for the specified events, workshops, contests, projects etc. in the co-curricular record will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something. This way students can have an attachment to the event, workshop etc. they took a part in.

= Strategy #5 – Promote the use of The Collider =

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more.

== Tactic no. 2: Build a design thinking corner in the collider space ==

We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

= Strategy #6 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

We want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related. In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizes.

== Tactic no.1: Keep Hackamarine running annually to get more oceanography/earth sciences students engaged in E&I. ==

First Hackamarine was a great success. It didn't only help exposing oceanography/earth sciences to E&I, but it was a great turn out regarding collaboration of cross faculty students. Students from oceanography, engineering, arts, phycology, commerce and management formed teams and brought different mindsets to marine problems and came with ideas on how to solve them.

== Tactic no.2: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students so everyone is welcome to join and learn about the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

== Tactic no.3: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

We decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

= Strategy #7 - Creating a class-exchance system =

In order to enchance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to lauch such exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthlly basis. The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to 10 students per month, to voluntarily take a part in the class. The potential outcomes of this system would let students walk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. In addition to that, they can connect and get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to take their innovative ideas and start working on it as entrepreneurs.

= Related Links =

[[Dalhousie University]]

'''Dalhousie Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]
[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|d]] [[Category:StudentContributors|S]]

School:Dalhousie University

2017-09-22T03:51:12Z

Amilios:

[[File:Dalhousie-University.jpg]]

<div>Dalhousie University is internationally known as one of North America’s most welcoming universities. [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/history-tradition.html Founded in 1818], Dalhousie is one of Canada’s oldest universities, attracting more than 18,200 students from around the world. Located on [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dal-and-the-community/about-dal-communities.html Canada’s East Coast], the university blends [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/academic-excellence.html world-class academic programs] with [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/world-class-research.html leading-edge research]. </div>
== ==

== STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

The Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) serves as the heart of entrepreneurial endeavor and innovation at Dalhousie University. Its leading initiative, LaunchDal™, provides a series of credit and noncredit programs to help students, researchers and early-stage ventures to take their ideas to the next level.

'''LAUNCHDAL™ Programming'''

The Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology and provides student teams with funding of $1,500 to build their minimal viable product.

The Innovation course highlights the frameworks and best practices of design thinking and pushes students toward building prototypes by offering $1,000 in funding.

Launch Dal's $100,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance to LaunchPad Accelerator.

LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for student startups with $10,000 in seed funding to elevate their idea to the next level.

E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training program (at least two members from each organization or research project), where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.

The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate is a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth and success of student-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESP, students are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readiness.

'''Canada’s Business Model Competition'''

The competition is hosted and organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition ® has been sanctioned as the national qualifier competition for the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) with the winner advancing to the IBMC. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition ® will share $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.

Collider (Innovation Space)is a space for LAUNCHDAL’s programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCE.

Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovationfor the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level. In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301). An Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered to commerce students who have their own business venture or would like to work on their own idea to fulfill their co-op or internship requirements. In addition, NNCE co-hosts a series of entrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, and Demo Camp. Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos rather than traditional presentations. Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36.  

'''Entrepreneurial Societies and Student-Led Organizations on Campus.'''

The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons and connecting them with the local startup community.

Enactus is a student society focusing on improving the community through entrepreneurial action. Enactus is very focused on getting the students envolved with innovation and entrepreneurship ideas that benefit the larger local, national, or international community.

The Entrepreneurs and Law Association of Dalhousie Society hosts law clinics to answer legal questions in relation to starting a business. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and privacy law are discussed in a round-table format.

'''Events and Activities Around Campus.'''

Startup weekend is a fantastic event happening around campus twice a year which gets students from different disciplines working together on bright new ideas. It is led by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship and managed by faculty and volunteers with the centre.

Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and oceanography which allows allows students to work on their ideas and bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and the faculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.

== FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems is still in its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship. There is a group of local political, academic and business leaders called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. Based on this initiative there was a "Now or Never Report" released by the chair of the One Nova Scotia Commision Ray Ivany. One of the major topics in this report is entrepreneurship and innovation. Our president Dr. Richard Florizone is very involved with this initiative and strongly advocates entrepreneurship and innovation as one of the top priorities for the university. As a result from this growing interest in I&E, the Faculty of Engineering announced a project called Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus that would serve as a hub for innovation on Sexton Campus. E-corps is another great initiative by Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship to help researchers commercialize their reserch by applying lean methodology and design thinking frameworks and providing them with small seed capital to build their minimal viable products. There is also an initiative to introduce an Entrepreneurship Certificate across faculties.

Some faculty have been very interested in developing the I&E in the student body. For example, a new course has been started for rapid prototyping in the forth year level. It is considered a computer science credit, but is open to students of other faculties. Courses like this are constantly being developed by different faculty members all around campus. Doctor Fiona Black is also launching a program for certification in "creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship" to provide students from all faculties with the ooportunity to add entrepreneurship to their degree. The certificate name starts with the word "creativity" because it is a ver neutral word where students from all faculties can see themselves doing. It comprises of both for-credit courses and extracurricular work that students have to do in order to be accredited with the certificate. It is a greatinnitiative to allow students to achieve work a little bit outside of their field and allow them to bring their bright ideas and pursue them.

== UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION ==

Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) manages and facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of spin-off ventures.

This year (2017) the Creative Desctruction Lab (CDL) from the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto, is coming to Atlantic Canada, in the form of CDL-Atlantic. The CDL is a seed-stage program, focusing on the transition phase from pre-seed to seed-stage funding, helping innovators transition from "science projects" to high-growth companies. The program will be administered by Volta Labs CEO Jesse Rodgers, closely partnered with Dalhousie University and running out of the Rowe School of Business.

== FACILITATING UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ==

ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called Smart Energy App Challenge.

IDEA Sandbox where IDEA is "standing for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” is a collaborative initiative between Faculty of Engineering, the Rowe School of Business and NSCAD University.

Cultiv8 is anAgricultural Sandbox (workspace) located in the MacRae Library on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus in Truro. Incollaboration with NNCE's LaunchDal, Cultiv8 organized a first-of-its-kind Startup Weekend in Truro focusing on agriculture and food.

Volta Labs is a local workspace for early-stage startups that holds its tenants and network members accountable with a strong mentorship and peer-to-peer validation which help companies grow and scale faster. Volta also provides students with the ability to register for Volta network membership to stay connected to all events and offer them useful discounts for startups from companies such as Amazon or Hubspot.

The Technology Innovation Centre, run by the local venture capital group Innovacorps, provides local startups with multipurpose space off campus. Innovacorps organizes a biennial I3 Competition which is open to all students with early-stage startups or ideas to compete for over $900,000 in prizes across Nova Scotia.

The Collider, launched on October 2015, is a multipurpose collaborative space located on the second floor of the main campus library. The space is used for delivering LaunchDal programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However, the space is also be available to students to collaborate with their teams on their projects, to brainstorm, and to study while not in use by the Norman Newman Centre.

'''Research Centers'''

Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Brain Repair Centre (QEII Health Sciences Centre), Centre for Comparative Genomics & Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Institute for Research in Materials, Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Centre for Marine Vessel Development and Research, Centre for Water Resources Studies (CWRS), Minerals Engineering Centre (MEC), Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure, Vehicle Safety Research Team (VSRT), Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Centre, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR3),NRC Institute for Marine Biology,Aquatron Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

== ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ==

Innovacorps' Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF)assists and supports the academic community in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. The purpose of ESCF is to provide support for projects demonstrating readiness to advance a technology that has achieved, or is close to achieving, a prototype/proof-of-concept stage and is approaching market readiness with a possibility of attracting industry partners and/or investment. The prospect of generating a new revenue stream must also be apparent.

For Landscape canvas, please follow this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yAa802uP1Xzw3AOGfXIQlRIA4t4lD9WnzfH8sYp1SO0/edit?ts=56008d37#gid=0 link!] Updated canvas is on this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1__43f6_JL8JBa-I0UKWZl1SSvez8GRYF04sbrgVFTGY/edit#gid=6 link!]

For Landscape presentation click [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BhNneAnQrPRsRVzb9pAzIOADAMZvt1Dj5A9Tlg2sh9M/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_0_41 here!]

= Related Links =

'''Dalhousie University'''

[[Dalhousie University - Student Priorities|Dalhousie Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Dalhousie University

2017-09-22T03:50:14Z

Amilios:

[[File:Dalhousie-University.jpg]]

<div>Dalhousie University is internationally known as one of North America’s most welcoming universities. [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/history-tradition.html Founded in 1818], Dalhousie is one of Canada’s oldest universities, attracting more than 18,200 students from around the world. Located on [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dal-and-the-community/about-dal-communities.html Canada’s East Coast], the university blends [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/academic-excellence.html world-class academic programs] with [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/world-class-research.html leading-edge research]. </div>
== ==

== STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

The Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) serves as the heart of entrepreneurial endeavor and innovation at Dalhousie University. Its leading initiative, LaunchDal™, provides a series of credit and noncredit programs to help students, researchers and early-stage ventures to take their ideas to the next level.

'''LAUNCHDAL™ Programming'''

The Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology and provides student teams with funding of $1,500 to build their minimal viable product.

The Innovation course highlights the frameworks and best practices of design thinking and pushes students toward building prototypes by offering $1,000 in funding.

Launch Dal's $100,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance to LaunchPad Accelerator.

LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for student startups with $10,000 in seed funding to elevate their idea to the next level.

E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training program (at least two members from each organization or research project), where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.

The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate is a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth and success of student-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESP, students are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readiness.

'''Canada’s Business Model Competition'''

The competition is hosted and organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition ® has been sanctioned as the national qualifier competition for the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) with the winner advancing to the IBMC. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition ® will share $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.

Collider (Innovation Space)is a space for LAUNCHDAL’s programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCE.

Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovationfor the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level. In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301). An Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered to commerce students who have their own business venture or would like to work on their own idea to fulfill their co-op or internship requirements. In addition, NNCE co-hosts a series of entrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, and Demo Camp. Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos rather than traditional presentations. Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36.  

'''Entrepreneurial Societies and Student-Led Organizations on Campus.'''

The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons and connecting them with the local startup community.

Enactus is a student society focusing on improving the community through entrepreneurial action. Enactus is very focused on getting the students envolved with innovation and entrepreneurship ideas that benefit the larger local, national, or international community.

The Entrepreneurs and Law Association of Dalhousie Society hosts law clinics to answer legal questions in relation to starting a business. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and privacy law are discussed in a round-table format.

'''Events and Activities Around Campus.'''

Startup weekend is a fantastic event happening around campus twice a year which gets students from different disciplines working together on bright new ideas. It is led by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship and managed by faculty and volunteers with the centre.

Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and oceanography which allows allows students to work on their ideas and bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and the faculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.

== FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems is still in its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship. There is a group of local political, academic and business leaders called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. Based on this initiative there was a "Now or Never Report" released by the chair of the One Nova Scotia Commision Ray Ivany. One of the major topics in this report is entrepreneurship and innovation. Our president Dr. Richard Florizone is very involved with this initiative and strongly advocates entrepreneurship and innovation as one of the top priorities for the university. As a result from this growing interest in I&E, the Faculty of Engineering announced a project called Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus that would serve as a hub for innovation on Sexton Campus. E-corps is another great initiative by Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship to help researchers commercialize their reserch by applying lean methodology and design thinking frameworks and providing them with small seed capital to build their minimal viable products. There is also an initiative to introduce an Entrepreneurship Certificate across faculties.

Some faculty have been very interested in developing the I&E in the student body. For example, a new course has been started for rapid prototyping in the forth year level. It is considered a computer science credit, but is open to students of other faculties. Courses like this are constantly being developed by different faculty members all around campus. Doctor Fiona Black is also launching a program for certification in "creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship" to provide students from all faculties with the ooportunity to add entrepreneurship to their degree. The certificate name starts with the word "creativity" because it is a ver neutral word where students from all faculties can see themselves doing. It comprises of both for-credit courses and extracurricular work that students have to do in order to be accredited with the certificate. It is a greatinnitiative to allow students to achieve work a little bit outside of their field and allow them to bring their bright ideas and pursue them.

== UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION ==

Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) manages and facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of spin-off ventures.

This year (2017) the Creative Desctruction Lab (CDL) from the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto, is coming to Atlantic Canada, in the form of CDL-Atlantic. The CDL is a seed-stage program, focusing on the transition phase from pre-seed to seed-stage funding, helping innovators transition from "science projects" to high-growth companies. The program will be administered by Volta Labs CEO Jesse Rodgers, but will be closely partnered with Dalhousie University.

== FACILITATING UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ==

ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called Smart Energy App Challenge.

IDEA Sandbox where IDEA is "standing for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” is a collaborative initiative between Faculty of Engineering, the Rowe School of Business and NSCAD University.

Cultiv8 is anAgricultural Sandbox (workspace) located in the MacRae Library on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus in Truro. Incollaboration with NNCE's LaunchDal, Cultiv8 organized a first-of-its-kind Startup Weekend in Truro focusing on agriculture and food.

Volta Labs is a local workspace for early-stage startups that holds its tenants and network members accountable with a strong mentorship and peer-to-peer validation which help companies grow and scale faster. Volta also provides students with the ability to register for Volta network membership to stay connected to all events and offer them useful discounts for startups from companies such as Amazon or Hubspot.

The Technology Innovation Centre, run by the local venture capital group Innovacorps, provides local startups with multipurpose space off campus. Innovacorps organizes a biennial I3 Competition which is open to all students with early-stage startups or ideas to compete for over $900,000 in prizes across Nova Scotia.

The Collider, launched on October 2015, is a multipurpose collaborative space located on the second floor of the main campus library. The space is used for delivering LaunchDal programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However, the space is also be available to students to collaborate with their teams on their projects, to brainstorm, and to study while not in use by the Norman Newman Centre.

'''Research Centers'''

Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Brain Repair Centre (QEII Health Sciences Centre), Centre for Comparative Genomics & Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Institute for Research in Materials, Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Centre for Marine Vessel Development and Research, Centre for Water Resources Studies (CWRS), Minerals Engineering Centre (MEC), Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure, Vehicle Safety Research Team (VSRT), Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Centre, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR3),NRC Institute for Marine Biology,Aquatron Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

== ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ==

Innovacorps' Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF)assists and supports the academic community in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. The purpose of ESCF is to provide support for projects demonstrating readiness to advance a technology that has achieved, or is close to achieving, a prototype/proof-of-concept stage and is approaching market readiness with a possibility of attracting industry partners and/or investment. The prospect of generating a new revenue stream must also be apparent.

For Landscape canvas, please follow this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yAa802uP1Xzw3AOGfXIQlRIA4t4lD9WnzfH8sYp1SO0/edit?ts=56008d37#gid=0 link!] Updated canvas is on this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1__43f6_JL8JBa-I0UKWZl1SSvez8GRYF04sbrgVFTGY/edit#gid=6 link!]

For Landscape presentation click [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BhNneAnQrPRsRVzb9pAzIOADAMZvt1Dj5A9Tlg2sh9M/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_0_41 here!]

= Related Links =

'''Dalhousie University'''

[[Dalhousie University - Student Priorities|Dalhousie Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Dalhousie University

2017-09-22T03:50:00Z

Amilios:

[[File:Dalhousie-University.jpg]]

<div>Dalhousie University is internationally known as one of North America’s most welcoming universities. [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/history-tradition.html Founded in 1818], Dalhousie is one of Canada’s oldest universities, attracting more than 18,200 students from around the world. Located on [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dal-and-the-community/about-dal-communities.html Canada’s East Coast], the university blends [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/academic-excellence.html world-class academic programs] with [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/world-class-research.html leading-edge research]. </div>
== ==

== STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

The Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) serves as the heart of entrepreneurial endeavor and innovation at Dalhousie University. Its leading initiative, LaunchDal™, provides a series of credit and noncredit programs to help students, researchers and early-stage ventures to take their ideas to the next level.

'''LAUNCHDAL™ Programming'''

The Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology and provides student teams with funding of $1,500 to build their minimal viable product.

The Innovation course highlights the frameworks and best practices of design thinking and pushes students toward building prototypes by offering $1,000 in funding.

Launch Dal's $100,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance to LaunchPad Accelerator.

LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for student startups with $10,000 in seed funding to elevate their idea to the next level.

E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training program (at least two members from each organization or research project), where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.

The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate is a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth and success of student-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESP, students are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readiness.

'''Canada’s Business Model Competition'''

The competition is hosted and organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition ® has been sanctioned as the national qualifier competition for the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) with the winner advancing to the IBMC. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition ® will share $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.

Collider (Innovation Space)is a space for LAUNCHDAL’s programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCE.

Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovationfor the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level. In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301). An Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered to commerce students who have their own business venture or would like to work on their own idea to fulfill their co-op or internship requirements. In addition, NNCE co-hosts a series of entrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, and Demo Camp. Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos rather than traditional presentations. Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36.  

'''Entrepreneurial Societies and Student-Led Organizations on Campus.'''

The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons and connecting them with the local startup community.

Enactus is a student society focusing on improving the community through entrepreneurial action. Enactus is very focused on getting the students envolved with innovation and entrepreneurship ideas that benefit the larger local, national, or international community.

The Entrepreneurs and Law Association of Dalhousie Society hosts law clinics to answer legal questions in relation to starting a business. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and privacy law are discussed in a round-table format.

'''Events and Activities Around Campus.'''

Startup weekend is a fantastic event happening around campus twice a year which gets students from different disciplines working together on bright new ideas. It is led by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship and managed by faculty and volunteers with the centre.

Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and oceanography which allows allows students to work on their ideas and bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and the faculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.

== FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems is still in its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship. There is a group of local political, academic and business leaders called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. Based on this initiative there was a "Now or Never Report" released by the chair of the One Nova Scotia Commision Ray Ivany. One of the major topics in this report is entrepreneurship and innovation. Our president Dr. Richard Florizone is very involved with this initiative and strongly advocates entrepreneurship and innovation as one of the top priorities for the university. As a result from this growing interest in I&E, the Faculty of Engineering announced a project called Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus that would serve as a hub for innovation on Sexton Campus. E-corps is another great initiative by Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship to help researchers commercialize their reserch by applying lean methodology and design thinking frameworks and providing them with small seed capital to build their minimal viable products. There is also an initiative to introduce an Entrepreneurship Certificate across faculties.

Some faculty have been very interested in developing the I&E in the student body. For example, a new course has been started for rapid prototyping in the forth year level. It is considered a computer science credit, but is open to students of other faculties. Courses like this are constantly being developed by different faculty members all around campus. Doctor Fiona Black is also launching a program for certification in "creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship" to provide students from all faculties with the ooportunity to add entrepreneurship to their degree. The certificate name starts with the word "creativity" because it is a ver neutral word where students from all faculties can see themselves doing. It comprises of both for-credit courses and extracurricular work that students have to do in order to be accredited with the certificate. It is a greatinnitiative to allow students to achieve work a little bit outside of their field and allow them to bring their bright ideas and pursue them.

== UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION ==

Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) manages and facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of spin-off ventures.

This year the Creative Desctruction Lab (CDL) from the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto, is coming to Atlantic Canada, in the form of CDL-Atlantic. The CDL is a seed-stage program, focusing on the transition phase from pre-seed to seed-stage funding, helping innovators transition from "science projects" to high-growth companies. The program will be administered by Volta Labs CEO Jesse Rodgers, but will be closely partnered with Dalhousie University.

== FACILITATING UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ==

ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called Smart Energy App Challenge.

IDEA Sandbox where IDEA is "standing for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” is a collaborative initiative between Faculty of Engineering, the Rowe School of Business and NSCAD University.

Cultiv8 is anAgricultural Sandbox (workspace) located in the MacRae Library on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus in Truro. Incollaboration with NNCE's LaunchDal, Cultiv8 organized a first-of-its-kind Startup Weekend in Truro focusing on agriculture and food.

Volta Labs is a local workspace for early-stage startups that holds its tenants and network members accountable with a strong mentorship and peer-to-peer validation which help companies grow and scale faster. Volta also provides students with the ability to register for Volta network membership to stay connected to all events and offer them useful discounts for startups from companies such as Amazon or Hubspot.

The Technology Innovation Centre, run by the local venture capital group Innovacorps, provides local startups with multipurpose space off campus. Innovacorps organizes a biennial I3 Competition which is open to all students with early-stage startups or ideas to compete for over $900,000 in prizes across Nova Scotia.

The Collider, launched on October 2015, is a multipurpose collaborative space located on the second floor of the main campus library. The space is used for delivering LaunchDal programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However, the space is also be available to students to collaborate with their teams on their projects, to brainstorm, and to study while not in use by the Norman Newman Centre.

'''Research Centers'''

Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Brain Repair Centre (QEII Health Sciences Centre), Centre for Comparative Genomics & Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Institute for Research in Materials, Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Centre for Marine Vessel Development and Research, Centre for Water Resources Studies (CWRS), Minerals Engineering Centre (MEC), Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure, Vehicle Safety Research Team (VSRT), Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Centre, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR3),NRC Institute for Marine Biology,Aquatron Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

== ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ==

Innovacorps' Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF)assists and supports the academic community in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. The purpose of ESCF is to provide support for projects demonstrating readiness to advance a technology that has achieved, or is close to achieving, a prototype/proof-of-concept stage and is approaching market readiness with a possibility of attracting industry partners and/or investment. The prospect of generating a new revenue stream must also be apparent.

For Landscape canvas, please follow this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yAa802uP1Xzw3AOGfXIQlRIA4t4lD9WnzfH8sYp1SO0/edit?ts=56008d37#gid=0 link!] Updated canvas is on this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1__43f6_JL8JBa-I0UKWZl1SSvez8GRYF04sbrgVFTGY/edit#gid=6 link!]

For Landscape presentation click [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BhNneAnQrPRsRVzb9pAzIOADAMZvt1Dj5A9Tlg2sh9M/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_0_41 here!]

= Related Links =

'''Dalhousie University'''

[[Dalhousie University - Student Priorities|Dalhousie Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Dalhousie University

2017-09-22T03:29:03Z

Amilios:

[[File:Dalhousie-University.jpg]]

<div>Dalhousie University is internationally known as one of North America’s most welcoming universities. [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/history-tradition.html Founded in 1818], Dalhousie is one of Canada’s oldest universities, attracting more than 18,200 students from around the world. Located on [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dal-and-the-community/about-dal-communities.html Canada’s East Coast], the university blends [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/academic-excellence.html world-class academic programs] with [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/world-class-research.html leading-edge research]. </div>
== ==

== STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

The Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) serves as the heart of entrepreneurial endeavor and innovation at Dalhousie University. Its leading initiative, LaunchDal™, provides a series of credit and noncredit programs to help students, researchers and early-stage ventures to take their ideas to the next level.

'''LAUNCHDAL™ Programming'''

The Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology and provides student teams with funding of $1,500 to build their minimal viable product.

The Innovation course highlights the frameworks and best practices of design thinking and pushes students toward building prototypes by offering $1,000 in funding.

Launch Dal's $100,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance to LaunchPad Accelerator.

LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for student startups with $10,000 in seed funding to elevate their idea to the next level.

E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training program (at least two members from each organization or research project), where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.

The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate is a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth and success of student-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESP, students are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readiness.

'''Canada’s Business Model Competition'''

The competition is hosted and organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition ® has been sanctioned as the national qualifier competition for the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) with the winner advancing to the IBMC. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition ® will share $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.

Collider (Innovation Space)is a space for LAUNCHDAL’s programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCE.

Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovationfor the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level. In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301). An Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered to commerce students who have their own business venture or would like to work on their own idea to fulfill their co-op or internship requirements. In addition, NNCE co-hosts a series of entrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, and Demo Camp. Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos rather than traditional presentations. Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36.  

'''Entrepreneurial Societies and Student-Led Organizations on Campus.'''

The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons and connecting them with the local startup community.

Enactus is a student society focusing on improving the community through entrepreneurial action. Enactus is very focused on getting the students envolved with innovation and entrepreneurship ideas that benefit the larger local, national, or international community.

The Entrepreneurs and Law Association of Dalhousie Society hosts law clinics to answer legal questions in relation to starting a business. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and privacy law are discussed in a round-table format.

'''Events and Activities Around Campus.'''

Startup weekend is a fantastic event happening around campus twice a year which gets students from different disciplines working together on bright new ideas. It is led by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship and managed by faculty and volunteers with the centre.

Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and oceanography which allows allows students to work on their ideas and bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and the faculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.

== FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems is still in its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship. There is a group of local political, academic and business leaders called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. Based on this initiative there was a "Now or Never Report" released by the chair of the One Nova Scotia Commision Ray Ivany. One of the major topics in this report is entrepreneurship and innovation. Our president Dr. Richard Florizone is very involved with this initiative and strongly advocates entrepreneurship and innovation as one of the top priorities for the university. As a result from this growing interest in I&E, the Faculty of Engineering announced a project called Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus that would serve as a hub for innovation on Sexton Campus. E-corps is another great initiative by Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship to help researchers commercialize their reserch by applying lean methodology and design thinking frameworks and providing them with small seed capital to build their minimal viable products. There is also an initiative to introduce an Entrepreneurship Certificate across faculties.

Some faculty have been very interested in developing the I&E in the student body. For example, a new course has been started for rapid prototyping in the forth year level. It is considered a computer science credit, but is open to students of other faculties. Courses like this are constantly being developed by different faculty members all around campus. Doctor Fiona Black is also launching a program for certification in "creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship" to provide students from all faculties with the ooportunity to add entrepreneurship to their degree. The certificate name starts with the word "creativity" because it is a ver neutral word where students from all faculties can see themselves doing. It comprises of both for-credit courses and extracurricular work that students have to do in order to be accredited with the certificate. It is a greatinnitiative to allow students to achieve work a little bit outside of their field and allow them to bring their bright ideas and pursue them.

== UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION ==

Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) manages and facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of spin-off ventures.

== FACILITATING UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ==

ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called Smart Energy App Challenge.

IDEA Sandbox where IDEA is "standing for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” is a collaborative initiative between Faculty of Engineering, the Rowe School of Business and NSCAD University.

Cultiv8 is anAgricultural Sandbox (workspace) located in the MacRae Library on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus in Truro. Incollaboration with NNCE's LaunchDal, Cultiv8 organized a first-of-its-kind Startup Weekend in Truro focusing on agriculture and food.

Volta Labs is a local workspace for early-stage startups that holds its tenants and network members accountable with a strong mentorship and peer-to-peer validation which help companies grow and scale faster. Volta also provides students with the ability to register for Volta network membership to stay connected to all events and offer them useful discounts for startups from companies such as Amazon or Hubspot.

The Technology Innovation Centre, run by the local venture capital group Innovacorps, provides local startups with multipurpose space off campus. Innovacorps organizes a biennial I3 Competition which is open to all students with early-stage startups or ideas to compete for over $900,000 in prizes across Nova Scotia.

The Collider, launched on October 2015, is a multipurpose collaborative space located on the second floor of the main campus library. The space is used for delivering LaunchDal programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However, the space is also be available to students to collaborate with their teams on their projects, to brainstorm, and to study while not in use by the Norman Newman Centre.

'''Research Centers'''

Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Brain Repair Centre (QEII Health Sciences Centre), Centre for Comparative Genomics & Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Institute for Research in Materials, Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Centre for Marine Vessel Development and Research, Centre for Water Resources Studies (CWRS), Minerals Engineering Centre (MEC), Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure, Vehicle Safety Research Team (VSRT), Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Centre, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR3),NRC Institute for Marine Biology,Aquatron Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

== ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ==

Innovacorps' Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF)assists and supports the academic community in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. The purpose of ESCF is to provide support for projects demonstrating readiness to advance a technology that has achieved, or is close to achieving, a prototype/proof-of-concept stage and is approaching market readiness with a possibility of attracting industry partners and/or investment. The prospect of generating a new revenue stream must also be apparent.

For Landscape canvas, please follow this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yAa802uP1Xzw3AOGfXIQlRIA4t4lD9WnzfH8sYp1SO0/edit?ts=56008d37#gid=0 link!] Updated canvas is on this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1__43f6_JL8JBa-I0UKWZl1SSvez8GRYF04sbrgVFTGY/edit#gid=6 link!]

For Landscape presentation click [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BhNneAnQrPRsRVzb9pAzIOADAMZvt1Dj5A9Tlg2sh9M/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_0_41 here!]

= Related Links =

'''Dalhousie University'''

[[Dalhousie University - Student Priorities|Dalhousie Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Dalhousie University

2017-09-22T03:26:20Z

Amilios:

[[File:Dalhousie-University.jpg]]

<div>Dalhousie University is internationally known as one of North America’s most welcoming universities. [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/history-tradition.html Founded in 1818], Dalhousie is one of Canada’s oldest universities, attracting more than 18,200 students from around the world. Located on [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dal-and-the-community/about-dal-communities.html Canada’s East Coast], the university blends [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/academic-excellence.html world-class academic programs] with [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/world-class-research.html leading-edge research]. </div>
== ==

== STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

The Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) serves as the heart of entrepreneurial endeavor and innovation at Dalhousie University. Its leading initiative, LaunchDal™, provides a series of credit and noncredit programs to help students, researchers and early-stage ventures to take their ideas to the next level.

'''LAUNCHDAL™ Programming'''

The Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology and provides student teams with funding of $1,500 to build their minimal viable product.

The Innovation course highlights the frameworks and best practices of design thinking and pushes students toward building prototypes by offering $1,000 in funding.

Launch Dal's $100,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance to LaunchPad Accelerator.

LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for student startups with $10,000 in seed funding to elevate their idea to the next level.

E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training program (at least two members from each organization or research project), where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.

The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate is a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth and success of student-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESP, students are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readiness.

'''Canada’s Business Model Competition'''

The competition is hosted and organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition ® has been sanctioned as the national qualifier competition for the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) with the winner advancing to the IBMC. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition ® will share $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.

Collider (Innovation Space)is a space for LAUNCHDAL’s programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCE.

Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovationfor the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level. In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301). An Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered to commerce students who have their own business venture or would like to work on their own idea to fulfill their co-op or internship requirements. In addition, NNCE co-hosts a series of entrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, and Demo Camp. Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos rather than traditional presentations. Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36.  

'''Entrepreneurial Societies and Student-Led Organizations on Campus.'''

The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons and connecting them with the local startup community.

Enactus is a student society focusing on improving the community through entrepreneurial action. Enactus is very focused on getting the students envolved with innovation and entrepreneurship ideas that benefit the larger local, national, or international community.

The Entrepreneurs and Law Association of Dalhousie Society hosts law clinics to answer legal questions in relation to starting a business. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and privacy law are discussed in a round-table format.

'''Events and Activities Around Campus.'''

Startup weekend is a fantastic event happening around campus twice a year which gets students from different disciplines working together on bright new ideas. It is led by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship and managed by faculty and volunteers with the centre.

Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and oceanography which allows allows students to work on their ideas and bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and the faculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.

== FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems is still in its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship. There is a group of local political, academic and business leaders called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. Based on this initiative there was a "Now or Never Report" released by the chair of the One Nova Scotia Commision Ray Ivany. One of the major topics in this report is entrepreneurship and innovation. Our president Dr. Richard Florizone is very involved with this initiative and strongly advocates entrepreneurship and innovation as one of the top priorities for the university. As a result from this growing interest in I&E, the Faculty of Engineering announced a project called Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus that would serve as a hub for innovation on Sexton Campus. E-corps is another great initiative by Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship to help researchers commercialize their reserch by applying lean methodology and design thinking frameworks and providing them with small seed capital to build their minimal viable products. There is also an initiative to introduce an Entrepreneurship Certificate across faculties.

Some faculty have been very interested in developing the I&E in the student body. For example, a new course has been started for rapid prototyping in the forth year level. It is considered a computer science credit, but is open to students of other faculties. Courses like this are constantly being developed by different faculty members all around campus. Doctor Fiona Black is also launching a program for certification in "creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship" to provide students from all faculties with the ooportunity to add entrepreneurship to their degree. The certificate name starts with the word "creativity" because it is a ver neutral word where students from all faculties can see themselves doing. It comprises of both for-credit courses and extracurricular work that students have to do in order to be accredited with the certificate. It is a greatinnitiative to allow students to achieve work a little bit outside of their field and allow them to bring their bright ideas and pursue them.

== UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION ==

Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) manages and facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of spin-off ventures.

== FACILITATING UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ==

ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called Smart Energy App Challenge.

IDEA Sandbox where IDEA is "standing for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” is a collaborative initiative between Faculty of Engineering, the Rowe School of Business and NSCAD University.

Cultiv8 is anAgricultural Sandbox (workspace) located in the MacRae Library on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus in Truro. Incollaboration with NNCE's LaunchDal, Cultiv8 organized a first-of-its-kind Startup Weekend in Truro focusing on agriculture and food.

Volta Labs is a local workspace for early-stage startups that holds its tenants and network members accountable with a strong mentorship and peer-to-peer validation which help companies grow and scale faster. Volta also provides students with the ability to register for Volta network membership to stay connected to all events and offer them useful discounts for startups from companies such as Amazon or Hubspot.

The Technology Innovation Centre, run by the local venture capital group Innovacorps, provides local startups with multipurpose space off campus. Innovacorps organizes a biennial I3 Competition which is open to all students with early-stage startups or ideas to compete for over $900,000 in prizes across Nova Scotia.

The Collider, launched recently on October 2015, is multipurpose collaborative space located on the second floor of the main campus library. The space used for delivering Launch Dal programming; courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space is also be available to students to collaborate with their teams on their projects, to brainstorm, and to study while not in use by the Norman Newman Centre.

'''Research Centers'''

Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Brain Repair Centre (QEII Health Sciences Centre), Centre for Comparative Genomics & Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Institute for Research in Materials, Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Centre for Marine Vessel Development and Research, Centre for Water Resources Studies (CWRS), Minerals Engineering Centre (MEC), Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure, Vehicle Safety Research Team (VSRT), Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Centre, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR3),NRC Institute for Marine Biology,Aquatron Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

== ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ==

Innovacorps' Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF)assists and supports the academic community in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. The purpose of ESCF is to provide support for projects demonstrating readiness to advance a technology that has achieved, or is close to achieving, a prototype/proof-of-concept stage and is approaching market readiness with a possibility of attracting industry partners and/or investment. The prospect of generating a new revenue stream must also be apparent.

For Landscape canvas, please follow this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yAa802uP1Xzw3AOGfXIQlRIA4t4lD9WnzfH8sYp1SO0/edit?ts=56008d37#gid=0 link!] Updated canvas is on this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1__43f6_JL8JBa-I0UKWZl1SSvez8GRYF04sbrgVFTGY/edit#gid=6 link!]

For Landscape presentation click [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BhNneAnQrPRsRVzb9pAzIOADAMZvt1Dj5A9Tlg2sh9M/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_0_41 here!]

= Related Links =

'''Dalhousie University'''

[[Dalhousie University - Student Priorities|Dalhousie Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Dalhousie University

2017-09-22T03:26:07Z

Amilios:

[[File:Dalhousie-University.jpg]]

<div>Dalhousie University is internationally known as one of North America’s most welcoming universities. [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/history-tradition.html Founded in 1818], Dalhousie is one of Canada’s oldest universities, attracting more than 18,200 students from around the world. Located on [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dal-and-the-community/about-dal-communities.html Canada’s East Coast], the university blends [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/academic-excellence.html world-class academic programs] with [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/world-class-research.html leading-edge research]. </div>
== ==

== STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

The Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) serves as the heart of entrepreneurial endeavor and innovation at Dalhousie University. Its leading initiative, LaunchDal™, provides a series of credit and noncredit programs to help students, researchers and early-stage ventures to take their ideas to the next level.

'''LAUNCHDAL™ Programming'''

The Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology and provides student teams with funding of $1,500 to build their minimal viable product.

The Innovation course highlights the frameworks and best practices of design thinking and pushes students toward building prototypes by offering $1,000 in funding.

Launch Dal's $100,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance to LaunchPad Accelerator.

LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for student startups with $10,000 in seed funding to elevate their idea to the next level.

E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training program (at least two members from each organization or research project), where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.

The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate is a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth and success of student-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESP, students are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readiness.

'''Canada’s Business Model Competition'''

The competition is hosted and organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition ® has been sanctioned as the national qualifier competition for the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) with the winner advancing to the IBMC. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition ® will share $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.

Collider (Innovation Space)is a space for LAUNCHDAL’s programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCE.

Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovationfor the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level. In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301). An Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered to commerce students who have their own business venture or would like to work on their own idea to fulfill their co-op or internship requirements. In addition, NNCE co-hosts a series of entrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, and Demo Camp. Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos rather than traditional presentations. Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36.  

'''Entrepreneurial Societies and Student-Led Organizations on Campus.'''

The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons and connecting them with the local startup community.

Enactus is a student society focusing on improving the community through entrepreneurial action. Enactus is very focused on getting the students envolved with innovation and entrepreneurship ideas that benefit the larger local, national, or international community.

The Entrepreneurs and Law Association of Dalhousie Society hosts law clinics to answer legal questions in relation to starting a business. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and privacy law are discussed in a round-table format.

'''Events and Activities Around Campus.'''

Startup weekend is a fantastic event happening around campus twice a year which gets students from different disciplines working together on bright new ideas. It is led by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship and managed by faculty and volunteers with the centre.

Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and oceanography which allows allows students to work on their ideas and bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and the faculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.

== FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems is still in its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship. There is a group of local political, academic and business leaders called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. Based on this initiative there was a "Now or Never Report" released by the chair of the One Nova Scotia Commision Ray Ivany. One of the major topics in this report is entrepreneurship and innovation. Our president Dr. Richard Florizone is very involved with this initiative and strongly advocates entrepreneurship and innovation as one of the top priorities for the university. As a result from this growing interest in I&E, the Faculty of Engineering announced a project called Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus that would serve as a hub for innovation on Sexton Campus. E-corps is another great initiative by Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship to help researchers commercialize their reserch by applying lean methodology and design thinking frameworks and providing them with small seed capital to build their minimal viable products. There is also an initiative to introduce an Entrepreneurship Certificate across faculties.

Some faculty have been very interested in developing the I&E in the student body. For example, a new course has been started for rapid prototyping in the forth year level. It is considered a computer science credit, but is open to students of other faculties. Courses like this are constantly being developed by different faculty members all around campus. Doctor Fiona Black is also launching a program for certification in "creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship" to provide students from all faculties with the ooportunity to add entrepreneurship to their degree. The certificate name starts with the word "creativity" because it is a ver neutral word where students from all faculties can see themselves doing. It comprises of both for-credit courses and extracurricular work that students have to do in order to be accredited with the certificate. It is a greatinnitiative to allow students to achieve work a little bit outside of their field and allow them to bring their bright ideas and pursue them.

== UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION ==

Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) manages and facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of spin-off ventures.

== FACILITATING UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ==

ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called Smart Energy App Challenge.

IDEA Sandbox where IDEA is "standing for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” is a collaborative initiative between Faculty of Engineering, the Rowe School of Business and NSCAD University.

Cultiv8 is anAgricultural Sandbox (workspace) located in the MacRae Library on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus in Truro. Incollaboration with NNCE's LaunchDal, Cultiv8 organized a first-of-its-kind Startup Weekend in Truro focusing on agriculture and food.

Volta Labs is a local workspace for early-stage startups that holds its tenants and network members accountable with a strong mentorship and peer-to-peer validation which help companies grow and scale faster. Volta also provides students with the ability to register for Volta network membership to stay connected to all events and offer them useful discounts for startups from companies such as Amazon or Hubspot.

The Technology Innovation Centre, run by the local venture capital group Innovacorps, provides local startups with multipurpose space off campus. Innovacorps organizes a biennial I3 Competition which is open to all students with early-stage startups or ideas to compete for over $900,000 in prizes across Nova Scotia.

The Collider, launched recently on October 2015, is multipurpose collaborative space located on the second floor of the main campus library. The space used for delivering Launch Dal programming; courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space is also be available to students to collaborate with their teams on their projects, to brainstorm, and to study while not in use by the Norman Newman Centre.

'''Research Centers'''

Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Brain Repair Centre (QEII Health Sciences Centre), Centre for Comparative Genomics & Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Institute for Research in Materials, Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Centre for Marine Vessel Development and Research, Centre for Water Resources Studies (CWRS), Minerals Engineering Centre (MEC), Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure, Vehicle Safety Research Team (VSRT), Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Centre, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR3),NRC Institute for Marine Biology,Aquatron Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

== ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ==

Innovacorps' Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF)assists and supports the academic community in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. The purpose of ESCF is to provide support for projects demonstrating readiness to advance a technology that has achieved, or is close to achieving, a prototype/proof-of-concept stage and is approaching market readiness with a possibility of attracting industry partners and/or investment. The prospect of generating a new revenue stream must also be apparent.

For Landscape canvas, please follow this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yAa802uP1Xzw3AOGfXIQlRIA4t4lD9WnzfH8sYp1SO0/edit?ts=56008d37#gid=0 link!] Updated canvas is on this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1__43f6_JL8JBa-I0UKWZl1SSvez8GRYF04sbrgVFTGY/edit#gid=6 link!]

For Landscape presentation click [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BhNneAnQrPRsRVzb9pAzIOADAMZvt1Dj5A9Tlg2sh9M/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_0_41 here!]

= Related Links =

'''Dalhousie University'''

[[Dalhousie University - Student Priorities|Dalhousie Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2017:

[[Aristides Milios]]
[[Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale|Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan|Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:Universities]]

Black Mirror: ready, set design

2017-09-14T21:56:23Z

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Resource:How to effectively run a Black Mirror "Ready, Set, Design" workshop

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Amilios:

= Introduction =

The concept of “Ready, Set, Design” is an exercised used to promote outside thinking using basic materials. The exercise holds very few restrictions and unlimited possibilities. The exercise promotes thinking across many different disciplines and is all encompassing of the different minds on campus.  





= Goals =

Working and designing in a tactile manner, using these materials, encourages out-of-the-box thinking, as opposed to the traditional design procedure of sitting down with a whiteboard and dry-erase markers and drawing/sketching out a solution. Physical materials can represent people, devices, etc. and allow the creativity of the students to run wild and unfettered.





= Session Warm-Up/Icebreaker =

When doing a “Ready, Set, Design” session, or any similar exercise, it is suggested to always start with a warm-up game (an icebreaker) that allows the participants familiarize themselves with each other and get comfortable in the environment of the exercise. Suggested games are a rock-paper-scissors tournament or group charades. These games “break the ice” and allow for better creative output.

Black Mirror Component

Black Mirror is a modern TV show that presents current complex societal issues through a futurist lens, demonstrating in each episode how current societal ills can be exacerbated by technology, presenting what could become, how these current issues can become much worse given the right technology. For example, one episode demonstrates how much worse relationship jealousy could become given contact lenses with integrated cameras that record and allow everyone to replay what they see. The Black Mirror show is used to generate the design problem prompts that the participants of the session are trying to solve. An example given the aforementioned episode may be “how might we redesign social media”. Episodes are cut down to 10-15 mins and shown at the beginning of the session to catch up the participants on the design problem that they are trying to solve.





= Materials and Administration =

To orchestrate this exercise, you will need to provide a bag of random physical “arts and crafts” type materials. Past examples include popsicle sticks, aluminum foil, balloons, pipe cleaners, etc. Groups are given 20-25 minutes to work using this materials and design a solution to the given prompt of the session. The prompt can be the same for all participants or they can vary between groups.





= How to drive engagement/interest =

To engage students in the session, start by presenting a thought provoking topic about technology and its ethical implications related to the design project of the day. Get students engaged in dialogue, this gives them reasons whythey should figure out solutions to potential problems with technology in the near future. When students step forward with a purpose and reason, they are better able to engage with the task at hand and ultimately have a much more rewarding experience during the making process.

= Authorship =

[[Allison Schroeder]]

[[Aristides Milios]]

[[Tom Negaard]]

[[Thomas Noel]]

[[Gabriel Gutierrez]]

[[Category:Guides]]

Resource:How to effectively run a Black Mirror "Ready, Set, Design" workshop

2017-09-09T02:00:11Z

Amilios:

= Introduction =

The concept of “Ready, Set, Design” is an exercised used to promote outside thinking using basic materials. The exercise holds very few restrictions and unlimited possibilities. The exercise promotes thinking across many different disciplines and is all encompassing of the different minds on campus.  





= Goals =

Working and designing in a tactile manner, using these materials, encourages out-of-the-box thinking, as opposed to the traditional design procedure of sitting down with a whiteboard and dry-erase markers and drawing/sketching out a solution. Physical materials can represent people, devices, etc. and allow the creativity of the students to run wild and unfettered.





= Session Warm-Up/Icebreaker =

When doing a “Ready, Set, Design” session, or any similar exercise, it is suggested to always start with a warm-up game (an icebreaker) that allows the participants familiarize themselves with each other and get comfortable in the environment of the exercise. Suggested games are a rock-paper-scissors tournament or group charades. These games “break the ice” and allow for better creative output.

Black Mirror Component

Black Mirror is a modern TV show that presents current complex societal issues through a futurist lens, demonstrating in each episode how current societal ills can be exacerbated by technology, presenting what could become, how these current issues can become much worse given the right technology. For example, one episode demonstrates how much worse relationship jealousy could become given contact lenses with integrated cameras that record and allow everyone to replay what they see. The Black Mirror show is used to generate the design problem prompts that the participants of the session are trying to solve. An example given the aforementioned episode may be “how might we redesign social media”. Episodes are cut down to 10-15 mins and shown at the beginning of the session to catch up the participants on the design problem that they are trying to solve.





= Materials and Administration =

To orchestrate this exercise, you will need to provide a bag of random physical “arts and crafts” type materials. Past examples include popsicle sticks, aluminum foil, balloons, pipe cleaners, etc. Groups are given 20-25 minutes to work using this materials and design a solution to the given prompt of the session. The prompt can be the same for all participants or they can vary between groups.





= How to drive engagement/interest =

To engage students in the session, start by presenting a thought provoking topic about technology and its ethical implications related to the design project of the day. Get students engaged in dialogue, this gives them reasons whythey should figure out solutions to potential problems with technology in the near future. When students step forward with a purpose and reason, they are better able to engage with the task at hand and ultimately have a much more rewarding experience during the making process.

= Authorship =

[[Allison Schroeder]]
[[Aristides Milios]]
[[Tom Negaard]]
[[Thomas Noel]]
[[Gabriel Gutierrez]]

 [[Category:Guides]]

Resource:How to effectively run a Black Mirror "Ready, Set, Design" workshop

2017-09-09T01:00:49Z

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= Introduction =

The concept of “Ready, Set, Design” is an exercised used to promote outside thinking using basic materials. The exercise holds very few restrictions and unlimited possibilities. The exercise promotes thinking across many different disciplines and is all encompassing of the different minds on campus.  





= Goals =

Working and designing in a tactile manner, using these materials, encourages out-of-the-box thinking, as opposed to the traditional design procedure of sitting down with a whiteboard and dry-erase markers and drawing/sketching out a solution. Physical materials can represent people, devices, etc. and allow the creativity of the students to run wild and unfettered.





= Session Warm-Up/Icebreaker =

When doing a “Ready, Set, Design” session, or any similar exercise, it is suggested to always start with a warm-up game (an icebreaker) that allows the participants familiarize themselves with each other and get comfortable in the environment of the exercise. Suggested games are a rock-paper-scissors tournament or group charades. These games “break the ice” and allow for better creative output.

Black Mirror Component

Black Mirror is a modern TV show that presents current complex societal issues through a futurist lens, demonstrating in each episode how current societal ills can be exacerbated by technology, presenting what could become, how these current issues can become much worse given the right technology. For example, one episode demonstrates how much worse relationship jealousy could become given contact lenses with integrated cameras that record and allow everyone to replay what they see. The Black Mirror show is used to generate the design problem prompts that the participants of the session are trying to solve. An example given the aforementioned episode may be “how might we redesign social media”. Episodes are cut down to 10-15 mins and shown at the beginning of the session to catch up the participants on the design problem that they are trying to solve.





= Materials and Administration =

To orchestrate this exercise, you will need to provide a bag of random physical “arts and crafts” type materials. Past examples include popsicle sticks, aluminum foil, balloons, pipe cleaners, etc. Groups are given 20-25 minutes to work using this materials and design a solution to the given prompt of the session. The prompt can be the same for all participants or they can vary between groups.





= How to drive engagement/interest =

To engage students in the session, start by presenting a thought provoking topic about technology and its ethical implications related to the design project of the day. Get students engaged in dialogue, this gives them reasons whythey should figure out solutions to potential problems with technology in the near future. When students step forward with a purpose and reason, they are better able to engage with the task at hand and ultimately have a much more rewarding experience during the making process.





= Authorship =

[[Allison Schroeder]]

[[Aristides Milios]],

[[Tom Negaard]]

[[Thomas Noel]]

[[Gabriel Gutierez]]

<div> </div>
[[Category:Guides]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T23:56:30Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus, where he is studying Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

Aristides's involvement in the startup community of Atlantic Canada has reached far and wide. Aristides went to the YES Atlantic Conference on Youth Entrepreneurship in New Brunswick and spoke on a panel about his experiences as a young founder. He has helped begin the process to spread Hoist Halifax Canada-wide, starting with the first chapter in the Hoist network, Hoist Annapolis Valley, located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the location of Acadia University. He also participated in the Shad Valley program in between the 10th and 11th grades of high school, which cemented his love of all things science, tech and entrepreneurship to an even larger extent. Aristides is also fluently bilingual in English and Greek, being born of Greek parents and having a dual citizenship, with fairly good knowledge of French as well. He is also knowledgeable in the area of web development, from being a freelance web developer "on the side" of his schooling and through being the technical co-founder of his startup. Aristides is also a recipient of the Schulich scholarship at Dalhousie, at a worth of over $40,000 over four years.

=== Links ===

[http://aristidesmilios.com Personal Website]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidesmilios/ LinkedIn]

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T21:24:07Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px|AristidesMilios.jpg]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus, where he is studying Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

Aristides's involvement in the startup community of Atlantic Canada has reached far and wide. Aristides went to the YES Atlantic Conference on Youth Entrepreneurship in New Brunswick and spoke on a panel about his experiences as a young founder. He has helped begin the process to spread Hoist Halifax Canada-wide, starting with the first chapter in the Hoist network, Hoist Annapolis Valley, located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the location of Acadia University. He also participated in the Shad Valley program in between the 10th and 11th grades of high school, which cemented his love of all things science, tech and entrepreneurship to an even larger extent. Aristides is also fluently bilingual in English and Greek, being born of Greek parents and having a dual citizenship, with fairly good knowledge of French as well. He is also knowledgeable in the area of web development, from being a freelance web developer on the side of school and through technical work with his startup. Aristides is also a recipient of the Schulich scholarship at Dalhousie, at a worth of over $40,000 over four years.

=== Links ===

[http://aristidesmilios.com Personal Website]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidesmilios/ LinkedIn]

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T21:21:04Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus, where he is studying Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

Aristides's involvement in the startup community of Atlantic Canada has reached far and wide. Aristides went to the YES Atlantic Conference on Youth Entrepreneurship in New Brunswick and spoke on a panel about his experiences as a young founder. He has helped begin the process to spread Hoist Halifax Canada-wide, starting with the first chapter in the Hoist network, Hoist Annapolis Valley, located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the location of Acadia University. He also participated in the Shad Valley program in between the 10th and 11th grades of high school, which cemented his love of all things science, tech and entrepreneurship to an even larger extent. Aristides is also fluently bilingual in English and Greek, being born of Greek parents and having a dual citizenship, with fairly good knowledge of French as well. He has fairly good technical knowledge of web development, from being a freelance web developer on the side and through technical work with his startup. 

=== Links ===

[http://aristidesmilios.com Personal Website]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidesmilios/ LinkedIn]

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T21:20:47Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px|AristidesMilios.jpg]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus, where he is studying Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

Aristides's involvement in the startup community of Atlantic Canada has reached far and wide. Aristides went to the YES Atlantic Conference on Youth Entrepreneurship in New Brunswick and spoke on a panel about his experiences as a young founder. He has helped begin the process to spread Hoist Halifax Canada-wide, starting with the first chapter in the Hoist network, Hoist Annapolis Valley, located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the location of Acadia University. He also participated in the Shad Valley program in between the 10th and 11th grades of high school, which cemented his love of all things science, tech and entrepreneurship to an even larger extent. Aristides is also fluently bilingual in English and Greek, being born of Greek parents with a dual citizenship, with fairly good knowledge of French as well. He has fairly good technical knowledge of web development, from being a freelance web developer on the side and through technical work with his startup. 

=== Links ===

[http://aristidesmilios.com Personal Website]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidesmilios/ LinkedIn]

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T19:13:31Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus, where he is studying Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

Aristides's involvement in the startup community of Atlantic Canada has reached far and wide. Aristides went to the YES Atlantic Conference on Youth Entrepreneurship in New Brunswick and spoke on a panel about his experiences as a young founder. He has helped begin the process to spread Hoist Halifax Canada-wide, starting with the first chapter in the Hoist network, Hoist Annapolis Valley, located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the location of Acadia University. He also participated in the Shad Valley program in between the 10th and 11th grades of high school, which cemented his love of all things science, tech and entrepreneurship to an even larger extent. Aristides is also fluently bilingual in English and Greek, being born of Greek parents, with fairly good knowledge of French as well. He has fairly good technical knowledge of web development, from being a freelance web developer on the side and through technical work with his startup. 

=== Links ===

[http://aristidesmilios.com Personal Website]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aristidesmilios/ LinkedIn]

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T18:36:37Z

Amilios:

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T18:29:09Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Aristides Milios]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus.

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''

[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T18:28:31Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Aristides Milios]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus.

= RELATED LINKS =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios''' [[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T18:28:23Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Aristides Milios]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus.

= RELATED LINKS =

= [[Dalhousie University]] =

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios''' [[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T18:28:17Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Aristides Milios]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus.

= RELATED LINKS =

= =

[[Dalhousie University]]

[[University Innovation Fellows]]

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios''' [[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]

Fellow:Aristides Milios

2017-09-08T18:28:08Z

Amilios:

== About Aristides ==

[[File:AristidesMilios.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Aristides Milios]]

Aristides Milios is a highly motivated university student passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. From an early age Aristides loved learning how technology works. At the age of 15, Aristides co-founded a startup with a classmate that aimed to create Google Analytics but for retail stores through wireless beacons that detect phone signals. Becoming enmeshed in the local startup community (and Volta, a local startup house) in Halifax, Aristides's startup Bitness went through the Launch36 and Propel ICT accelerator programs. Through his ties to the Volta community, Aristides and that same classmate jointly co-founded Hoist, a monthly meet for youth interested in technology and entrepreneurship topics. Since beginning university, Aristides's passion has not slowed, with his continued involvement in tech and entrepreneurship on the Dalhousie University campus.

= RELATED LINKS =

= =

[[Dalhousie University]]

= [[University Innovation Fellows]] =

Fall 2017:

'''Aristides Milios'''
[[Canberk Bal|Canberk Bal]]

Spring 2016:

[[Yaser Alkayale]]

[[Séline Dogan]]

Fall 2015:

[[Justin Javorek|Justin Javorek]]

[[Dhruv Bhatia|Dhruv Bhatia]]

[[Category:StudentContributors|y]]