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School:City College of New York

2017-10-20T02:53:24Z

Ardilesnathaly:

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= OVERVIEW =

The City College of the City University of New York is a public senior college of the City University of New York in New York City.

= STUDENT INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP =

Currently, the community at the City College of New York (students, faculty and alumni) have minimum exposure when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship. This is for many reasons, and largely is due to lack of faculty and student initiative to improve these conditions. As we progressed through UIF training, we made it our goal to engage the students' body, learn from our peers, and find ways to inspire, motivate, and create initiatives to foster that community of innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Zahn Innovation Center:
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<li>The Zahn Center is CCNY’s first and only startup accelerator and incubator. It aims to support CCNY’s most dedicated student innovators by allowing them to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, funding, and office space - while maintaining status as a student.</li>
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TEDx CUNY:
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<li>Independently organized TEDx talks throughout the City University system of NYC bring powerful and credible stories directly to students. Throughout the CUNY system, student organizations have organized TEDx Salons, which are lower lift talks with high level impact.</li>
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The Campus:
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<li>The Campus magazine showcases accomplished students initiatives and significant changes in CCNY’s I&E atmosphere. The publication allows those who feel like their dreams may not become a reality to view actual examples of students who made things happen.</li>
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Conversations in Leadership
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<li>The Colin Powell School for Global Leadership brings accomplished businessmen, entrepreneurs, and inventors to our small campus. These leaders inspire the student body to reach out towards the existing resources on campus that many take for granted.</li>
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City College Fund
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<li>The City College Fund remains transparent with students and leaves its doors open. The fund gladly welcomes students initiatives with open doors and wallets. The fund has been known for working with administration in identifying which student led projects deserve funding and supports them with connections as well.</li>
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Undergraduate academic programs in entrepreneurship:
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<li>ECO C0026 Managing Business Complexity</li>
<li>Entrepreneurship: Women & Diversity</li>
<li>ECO - 41250 Entrepreneurship Course</li>
<li>ECO 42000 - Internship</li>
</ul>

= FACULTY INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP =
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<li>Zahn Center Venture Competitions</li>
<li>Zahn Center Incubator/Accelerator</li>
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= UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER =

CUNY CAT - The CUNY Center for Advanced Technology promotes industry-university collaborative research and development and spurs industrial economic impact through applied research, technology transfer in commercial arenas and encouragement of faculty entrepreneurship. The CUNY CAT is sponsored by the New York State Department of Economic Development, Division of Science, Technology, and Innovation (NYSTAR) and The City University of New York.

== Venture Accelerator ==

The Zahn Innovation Center, located in the Marshak Science building and Grove Engineering school helps students build their businesses from idea to MVP.

= UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION =

TEDxCUNY Salon

Rap-Si

GPS Navigators

Career & Professional Dev. Institute

= REGIONAL & LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS =
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<li>Career & Professional Development Institute (Career Fairs - once a semester for business and engineers)</li>
<li>The City College Fund</li>
<li>The Zahn Innovation Center</li>
<li>The Roosevelt Institute</li>
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= LANDSCAPE CANVAS =

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== Related Links ==

[[CCNY Student Priorities|City College of New York Student Priorities]]

== 2016 Fall Cohort  ==

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== 2017 Fall Cohort  ==

[[Nathaly_Ardiles|Nathaly Ardiles ]]

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Resource:How to build a software development community in college

2017-10-17T17:42:41Z

Ardilesnathaly:

= Intro =

Creating software development communities in our universities is becoming a very important step towards improving our institutions and aiding the standard teaching methods. Technology does not wait, and neither should students. Many professors and curriculums are still behind on emerging technologies so by creating these communities not only are we provoking change, but we are also giving students opportunities to go beyond what is being taught. We interviewed [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner], a fellow from Texas Tech University, to get some pointers on how to start a software development club.

= Need and Goal =

There is a vast difference between what universities teach and what the reality is in the software industry. In the courses, we are usually taught more theoretical aspects of the topics, so the tools and the interactions with the teammates are unusual for the new graduates. A software development community provides the students the opportunity to learn the tools used in the software sector, get hands-on experience on them and meet with other people who are interested in learning about these things.

= Academic Permission =

Getting an academic permission to form a club might have different conditions and processes for different universities. You will need some board members in general and an advisor professor. Keeping the number of core officers as small as the administration lets is a good approach since it will decrease the amount of bureaucracy. Choosing an advisor professor who will try to contribute rather than control will be very helpful.

= Support =

As mentioned in the “cost” section, a software development community does not essentially need financial support. It rather needs the support of people who want to share their knowledge, engage in projects, give workshops etc. First of all, it is necessary to enroll students in the community. To do it you can start by showing them the advantages of learning practical skills, what they will do with those, and how it is valuable for the industry also to find an internship. Then it is crucial that you find team leaders, knowledgeable people in their areas who are also good at teaching, and show them how much they can learn by teaching in the community. Finally, just keep the students enrolled by teaching different things, and engage them often, so that everyone will start seeing the results of their efforts. In addition to this, a good way to reach out to professionals who can share their knowledge is to use the connections that the members of the community have from their internships.

= Cost =

Starting a software development community does not entail high costs. Internet, power outlets, and personal computers is all that is required to begin with. There are many free platforms that can teach you the basics of coding, so it is not necessary to invest money in e-courses. Food, such as pizza, for certain events requires money, but everyone can pitch in a bit to cover the costs. As the community starts expanding there might be interest in buying new hardware such as powerful computers or virtual reality headsets, then it will be necessary to find sponsors from your faculty or somewhere else, but it is always possible.

= Leadership =

Leaders should not only have coding knowledge, but they should also be able to communicate. Leaders need to be good at looking from other students’ perspective. For a small group of people, having a small number of leaders is the best since it will decrease the bureaucracy load. For engaging people of larger groups into the community, you will need more leaders as they will be interacting with smaller group of people and this will increase the impact made on students. Keep in mind that the old core group will not be there forever, so you need to train new leaders. Keep an eye on promising young members of the community and give them small, experimental leadership roles. You can pick the future leaders and train them by using this strategy. This will ensure that the club will continue even after you have graduated, and that you have started something that will have a lasting impact.

The club can be organized into teams of students who work on their own projects. The core leadership team can bring together all the teams once in a while to discuss things like best coding practices and have sessions to learn how to use relevant tools.
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= Launch =

To go from a group of friends meeting periodically to write code together to an actual university club or community, make sure to promote the community throughout campus, either by having info sessions, writing emails for school community, or posting in social media. For best results, do all of the above, and be creative about it! Pizza always attracts people for those first launch days! Once people are interested and it is time to begin, have icebreakers and social events. Do not make the community boring with only lectures, that's what the students do all day. Many times during these social events the students start making groups of friends and start getting ideas for projects, this is where we want them! If the launch is successful, it will create hype for the rest of year and the students will thank you for it.

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= Lessons learned and tips for others =

The process of forming and maintaining the community may be painful and you may not have the same approach as the administration of your university. In this case, be more diplomatic about making changes and push the people in your community in the right direction nicely. Having problems with the administration will probably cause you not to have funding and even further problems.

While it is easy to get students interested in the club and have a good response in the initial stages, it is often very hard to retain members for long. Ensure that the club is active and that you get people together frequently.

When you organise workshops, make sure that the participants get their hands dirty and use what they learned during or after the workshop. You can hold coding events for getting people to work on a project of their choice.

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= Writers =

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Fellow:Nathaly Ardiles

2017-10-17T17:23:08Z

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Nathaly Ardiles is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying electrical engineering at The City College of [[File:Nathaly.Ardiles.png|thumb|Nathaly Ardiles ]]New York (CCNY).

In the summer of 2016, Nathaly interned at Hubbell Incorporated in Shelton, C.T.  Nathaly has interned at Hubbell Incorporated in Shelton, C.T. in the summer of 2016. She participated in the research and technology laboratory with the premise wiring engineering team. During the summer of 2017, Nathaly interned at Thermo King an enterprise of Ingersoll Rand in Minneapolis, M.N.. Here she developed and reviewed the design verification plan for the next generation oil pressure switch as a quality project.

She was President of LAESA-SHPE (Latin American Engineering Student Association- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) for the academic school year of 2016-2017. Nathaly focused on the organization’s mission to raise STEM awareness for minorities in the our communities. She truly enjoys making an impact in her community and on campus by hosting events such as “Career Summit Day” and First LEGO League. Nathaly got the opportunity to travel to multiple conference and bring the LAESA-SHPE membership such as the SHPE conference in Baltimore MD , Seattle WA  and the SWE conference in Philadelphia PA  

Co-chair of Pre-college engineering day that has been at our college for 23 years. She is charge of coordinating this event for 250 high school students around NYC to have them do an engineering project with electrical cars. The students get to hear a lecture from an impactful STEM speaker, attend workshops, and get lab tours around the engineering school. Please feel free to contact me at [mailto:ardilesnathaly@gmail.com ardilesnathaly@gmail.com]or add me [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalyardiles/ LinkedIn].

 

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2017-10-17T17:15:26Z

Ardilesnathaly: