https://universityinnovation.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=AtorranceUniversity Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]2026-05-20T02:02:16ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.33.1https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities&diff=49914Priorities:Santa Clara University Student Priorities2017-02-17T03:23:34Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara University has a huge amount of resources for all students who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, however, not many students are enrolled in these programs. &nbsp;There seems to be a rather large disconnect between the students and the programs. &nbsp;This is not for a lack of trying. &nbsp;Many organizations try very hard to organize to students, but there are not very good channels for connecting the students to their desired program. &nbsp;Sure, there are bulletin boards all around campus, and emails that go out, but most students ignore both of these methods. &nbsp;There needs to be a better way to reach a larger amount of students. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There is also the problem of divisions. &nbsp;Each school under the Santa Clara University umbrella (Arts and Science, Engineering, and Business) seems to have a disconnect. &nbsp;They all seem to work with in their own school and not promote innovation by working together. &nbsp;Bringing all these schools together would surely promote a greater pool of ideas and innovations. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;">STRATEGY #1: REINVENTING RESOURCE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #1: &nbsp;Camino Utilization</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara, as shown through our Landscape Canvas, has many resources - from classes to clubs, from speaker events to workshops - but these are far underutilized due to a system of communication that is both difficult for the administration to maintain and doesn't fully reach out to the students of each college. In the school of Engineering, there is a weekly email sent out that is hand-crafted every Sunday night that lists out most of the events that will be happening that week. Club meetings, Maker Lab events, workshops, and many others are listed off in this email- but in the eyes of many, it comes across as almost "spammy". Most notably, not all engineers are interested in all disciplines of engineering, so they need to sort through dozens of items in order to find one they might be interested in. Along those same lines, the Business and Arts/Sciences schools appear to lack anything close to this, and students have to be completely on top of the hundreds of emails they receive each week just to see what they’re actually interested in.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>By utilizing Camino, a resource that every student on campus already accesses on a near-daily basis, we could potentially completely rework how our school’s resources deal with communications. Through Camino, club leaders, event organizers, and school administrators could communicate resources directly to interested students by publishing announcements about events when they are announced, directly messaging students to work out questions or RSVPs, and automatically add the event dates, times, and details to the students’ Google calendars. Students would sign up for which “groups” they would be interested in, whether they be Entrepreneurship, Art, Career Preparation, whatever it might be, and only receive notifications for those interests. It would be much more streamlined and direct than our current means of communication, and also helps grey out the boundaries between schools.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: REINVENTING CLASSES</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Combining Pop-Up Classes</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In order to give the school an experience of innovation and entrepreneurship, Santa Clara offers various one-unit pop up classes on relevant topics. A problem with these classes is that they don’t satisfy any requirement, are offered at odd times, and they are only worth one unit. This makes it so students can't or don’t want to take them. Therefore by combining them all into a 4-unit class would solve this problem. A problem that hasn’t been resolved yet is the fact that these classes are traditionally at odd times and are hard to fit in the schedule. If the classes were all a part of the same class it wouldn’t have to be squeezed in eliminating the potential to take other classes. The largest benefit of these classes being in line so they can build off each other, and come together in a big final project that has a real world component.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PURSUE</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Multidisciplinary Startup Venture</span></span></span> ==<br />
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Something that our landscape canvas revealed about Santa Clara University was that there was a clear gap when it comes to pursuing a startup venture and applying the innovative and design skills into a real and practical sense. Being in the heart of the Silicon Valley and sitting on top of many valuable resources, SCU does not do enough to foster the development of student-driven startups and fails to encourage collaboration and experimentation across different disciplines within the Business, Engineering and Arts and Science schools.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;To remedy this, we outlined a startup competition which pairs students from multiple disciplines as well as industry professionals and professors to organize an idea and bring it into a real, physical startup. This would be a yearlong commitment where most of Fall Quarter would be spent in the team and skill building phase. Students would organize amongst themselves and pitch startup ideas to industry professionals/professors who are interesting in providing their expertise to those ideas into fruition. After teams organize themselves, Winter quarter would be where the idea finally transcends into a real startup. Teams would develop business strategies, produce prototypes of their product or service, develop marketing tools, create a distribution system and search for potential investors. School funding as well as resources such as the Maker Lab would be accessible to students to eliminate any financial risks and apprehension. Finally, by the end of Spring Quarter, students would present their startup and be judged by industry professionals, potentially having their ideas and talent taken beyond the campus confinements and into either a company or on their own as a fully functional startup.</div><br />
= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY OF MAKER LAB</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Laser Cutter Material for Sale</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">One of the stated problems was that students fail to "experiment" and use the Maker Lab as much as it is open. Currently, the 3D printers are very popular because the school sponsors and provide free filament, up a reasonable amount, for students. However, the laser cutters, while equally popular, are not used as frequently because students need to bring in their own material. This can be quite difficult if they don't posses a car or want to impulsively or quickly make something.&nbsp;</span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The proposed prototype is to install a large, locked cabinet in the mostly-empty break room just outside the Maker Lab that will hold laser-cutter-bed sized sheets of plywood and acrylic that students can purchase. The lab assistants running the open lab will use a credit card reader the Maker Lab staff has stated is already being installed. The cost of the sheets will be enough to refund the material cost, plus shipping, plus a small labor cost of TA's having to order and pick up the sheets. To simplify the system students will only be able to purchase full sheets and can either keep left overs to reuse to leave them in the community scrap bin.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
<u>Related Links</u><br />
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Spring 2017<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andrew_Torrance Andrew Torrance]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Will_McMullen William McMullen]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Mjbelford Matt Belford]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rory_Pannkuk Rory Pannkuk]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University SCU Campus Page]<br />
</div></div>Atorrancehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities&diff=49913Priorities:Santa Clara University Student Priorities2017-02-17T03:22:42Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara University has a huge amount of resources for all students who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, however, not many students are enrolled in these programs. &nbsp;There seems to be a rather large disconnect between the students and the programs. &nbsp;This is not for a lack of trying. &nbsp;Many organizations try very hard to organize to students, but there are not very good channels for connecting the students to their desired program. &nbsp;Sure, there are bulletin boards all around campus, and emails that go out, but most students ignore both of these methods. &nbsp;There needs to be a better way to reach a larger amount of students. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There is also the problem of divisions. &nbsp;Each school under the Santa Clara University umbrella (Arts and Science, Engineering, and Business) seems to have a disconnect. &nbsp;They all seem to work with in their own school and not promote innovation by working together. &nbsp;Bringing all these schools together would surely promote a greater pool of ideas and innovations. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;">STRATEGY #1: REINVENTING RESOURCE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #1: &nbsp;Camino Utilization</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara, as shown through our Landscape Canvas, has many resources - from classes to clubs, from speaker events to workshops - but these are far underutilized due to a system of communication that is both difficult for the administration to maintain and doesn't fully reach out to the students of each college. In the school of Engineering, there is a weekly email sent out that is hand-crafted every Sunday night that lists out most of the events that will be happening that week. Club meetings, Maker Lab events, workshops, and many others are listed off in this email- but in the eyes of many, it comes across as almost "spammy". Most notably, not all engineers are interested in all disciplines of engineering, so they need to sort through dozens of items in order to find one they might be interested in. Along those same lines, the Business and Arts/Sciences schools appear to lack anything close to this, and students have to be completely on top of the hundreds of emails they receive each week just to see what they’re actually interested in.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>By utilizing Camino, a resource that every student on campus already accesses on a near-daily basis, we could potentially completely rework how our school’s resources deal with communications. Through Camino, club leaders, event organizers, and school administrators could communicate resources directly to interested students by publishing announcements about events when they are announced, directly messaging students to work out questions or RSVPs, and automatically add the event dates, times, and details to the students’ Google calendars. Students would sign up for which “groups” they would be interested in, whether they be Entrepreneurship, Art, Career Preparation, whatever it might be, and only receive notifications for those interests. It would be much more streamlined and direct than our current means of communication, and also helps grey out the boundaries between schools.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: REINVENTING CLASSES</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Combining Pop-Up Classes</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In order to give the school an experience of innovation and entrepreneurship, Santa Clara offers various one-unit pop up classes on relevant topics. A problem with these classes is that they don’t satisfy any requirement, are offered at odd times, and they are only worth one unit. This makes it so students can't or don’t want to take them. Therefore by combining them all into a 4-unit class would solve this problem. A problem that hasn’t been resolved yet is the fact that these classes are traditionally at odd times and are hard to fit in the schedule. If the classes were all a part of the same class it wouldn’t have to be squeezed in eliminating the potential to take other classes. The largest benefit of these classes being in line so they can build off each other, and come together in a big final project that has a real world component.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PURSUE</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Multidisciplinary Startup Venture</span></span></span> ==<br />
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Something that our landscape canvas revealed about Santa Clara University was that there was a clear gap when it comes to pursuing a startup venture and applying the innovative and design skills into a real and practical sense. Being in the heart of the Silicon Valley and sitting on top of many valuable resources, SCU does not do enough to foster the development of student-driven startups and fails to encourage collaboration and experimentation across different disciplines within the Business, Engineering and Arts and Science schools.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;To remedy this, we outlined a startup competition which pairs students from multiple disciplines as well as industry professionals and professors to organize an idea and bring it into a real, physical startup. This would be a yearlong commitment where most of Fall Quarter would be spent in the team and skill building phase. Students would organize amongst themselves and pitch startup ideas to industry professionals/professors who are interesting in providing their expertise to those ideas into fruition. After teams organize themselves, Winter quarter would be where the idea finally transcends into a real startup. Teams would develop business strategies, produce prototypes of their product or service, develop marketing tools, create a distribution system and search for potential investors. School funding as well as resources such as the Maker Lab would be accessible to students to eliminate any financial risks and apprehension. Finally, by the end of Spring Quarter, students would present their startup and be judged by industry professionals, potentially having their ideas and talent taken beyond the campus confinements and into either a company or on their own as a fully functional startup.</div><br />
= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY OF MAKER LAB</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Laser Cutter Material for Sale</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">One of the stated problems was that students fail to "experiment" and use the Maker Lab as much as it is open. Currently, the 3D printers are very popular because the school sponsors and provide free filament, up a reasonable amount, for students. However, the laser cutters, while equally popular, are not used as frequently because students need to bring in their own material. This can be quite difficult if they don't posses a car or want to impulsively or quickly make something.&nbsp;</span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The proposed prototype is to install a large, locked cabinet in the mostly-empty break room just outside the Maker Lab that will hold laser-cutter-bed sized sheets of plywood and acrylic that students can purchase. The lab assistants running the open lab will use a credit card reader the Maker Lab staff has stated is already being installed. The cost of the sheets will be enough to refund the material cost, plus shipping, plus a small labor cost of TA's having to order and pick up the sheets. To simplify the system students will only be able to purchase full sheets and can either keep left overs to reuse to leave them in the community scrap bin.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
<u>Related Links</u><br />
<br />
Spring 2017<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Will_McMullen William McMullen]<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Mjbelford Matt Belford]<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rory_Pannkuk Rory Pannkuk]<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University SCU Campus Page]<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities SCU Student Priorities]<br />
</div></div>Atorrancehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Andrew_Torrance&diff=49912Fellow:Andrew Torrance2017-02-17T03:22:25Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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'''<u>Andrew Torrance</u>'''<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">Andrew Torrance is a UIF Candidate from Santa Clara University majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is passionate about using his skills in engineering and leadership to better the world and believes that SCU is a great place to start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He participates in numerous clubs including being the Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Project Manager for Santa Clara Innovation and Design (SCID), and member of SCU's Engineers Without Borders chapter. He also serves as a mentor for his former high school robotics FRC team.</span><br />
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<font size="3">His leadership circle includes three other leaders of SCID and they hope to make a positive impact on the SCU campus through growing SCID, improving the annual Designathon, and expanding the usefulness of the campus' Maker Lab.</font><br />
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<u>Related Links</u><br />
<br />
Spring 2017<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Will_McMullen William McMullen]<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Mjbelford Matt Belford]<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rory_Pannkuk Rory Pannkuk]<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University SCU Campus Page]<br />
<br />
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities SCU Student Priorities]</div>Atorrancehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities&diff=49911Priorities:Santa Clara University Student Priorities2017-02-17T03:22:11Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara University has a huge amount of resources for all students who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, however, not many students are enrolled in these programs. &nbsp;There seems to be a rather large disconnect between the students and the programs. &nbsp;This is not for a lack of trying. &nbsp;Many organizations try very hard to organize to students, but there are not very good channels for connecting the students to their desired program. &nbsp;Sure, there are bulletin boards all around campus, and emails that go out, but most students ignore both of these methods. &nbsp;There needs to be a better way to reach a larger amount of students. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There is also the problem of divisions. &nbsp;Each school under the Santa Clara University umbrella (Arts and Science, Engineering, and Business) seems to have a disconnect. &nbsp;They all seem to work with in their own school and not promote innovation by working together. &nbsp;Bringing all these schools together would surely promote a greater pool of ideas and innovations. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;">STRATEGY #1: REINVENTING RESOURCE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #1: &nbsp;Camino Utilization</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara, as shown through our Landscape Canvas, has many resources - from classes to clubs, from speaker events to workshops - but these are far underutilized due to a system of communication that is both difficult for the administration to maintain and doesn't fully reach out to the students of each college. In the school of Engineering, there is a weekly email sent out that is hand-crafted every Sunday night that lists out most of the events that will be happening that week. Club meetings, Maker Lab events, workshops, and many others are listed off in this email- but in the eyes of many, it comes across as almost "spammy". Most notably, not all engineers are interested in all disciplines of engineering, so they need to sort through dozens of items in order to find one they might be interested in. Along those same lines, the Business and Arts/Sciences schools appear to lack anything close to this, and students have to be completely on top of the hundreds of emails they receive each week just to see what they’re actually interested in.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>By utilizing Camino, a resource that every student on campus already accesses on a near-daily basis, we could potentially completely rework how our school’s resources deal with communications. Through Camino, club leaders, event organizers, and school administrators could communicate resources directly to interested students by publishing announcements about events when they are announced, directly messaging students to work out questions or RSVPs, and automatically add the event dates, times, and details to the students’ Google calendars. Students would sign up for which “groups” they would be interested in, whether they be Entrepreneurship, Art, Career Preparation, whatever it might be, and only receive notifications for those interests. It would be much more streamlined and direct than our current means of communication, and also helps grey out the boundaries between schools.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: REINVENTING CLASSES</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Combining Pop-Up Classes</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In order to give the school an experience of innovation and entrepreneurship, Santa Clara offers various one-unit pop up classes on relevant topics. A problem with these classes is that they don’t satisfy any requirement, are offered at odd times, and they are only worth one unit. This makes it so students can't or don’t want to take them. Therefore by combining them all into a 4-unit class would solve this problem. A problem that hasn’t been resolved yet is the fact that these classes are traditionally at odd times and are hard to fit in the schedule. If the classes were all a part of the same class it wouldn’t have to be squeezed in eliminating the potential to take other classes. The largest benefit of these classes being in line so they can build off each other, and come together in a big final project that has a real world component.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PURSUE</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Multidisciplinary Startup Venture</span></span></span> ==<br />
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Something that our landscape canvas revealed about Santa Clara University was that there was a clear gap when it comes to pursuing a startup venture and applying the innovative and design skills into a real and practical sense. Being in the heart of the Silicon Valley and sitting on top of many valuable resources, SCU does not do enough to foster the development of student-driven startups and fails to encourage collaboration and experimentation across different disciplines within the Business, Engineering and Arts and Science schools.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;To remedy this, we outlined a startup competition which pairs students from multiple disciplines as well as industry professionals and professors to organize an idea and bring it into a real, physical startup. This would be a yearlong commitment where most of Fall Quarter would be spent in the team and skill building phase. Students would organize amongst themselves and pitch startup ideas to industry professionals/professors who are interesting in providing their expertise to those ideas into fruition. After teams organize themselves, Winter quarter would be where the idea finally transcends into a real startup. Teams would develop business strategies, produce prototypes of their product or service, develop marketing tools, create a distribution system and search for potential investors. School funding as well as resources such as the Maker Lab would be accessible to students to eliminate any financial risks and apprehension. Finally, by the end of Spring Quarter, students would present their startup and be judged by industry professionals, potentially having their ideas and talent taken beyond the campus confinements and into either a company or on their own as a fully functional startup.</div><br />
= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY OF MAKER LAB</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Laser Cutter Material for Sale</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">One of the stated problems was that students fail to "experiment" and use the Maker Lab as much as it is open. Currently, the 3D printers are very popular because the school sponsors and provide free filament, up a reasonable amount, for students. However, the laser cutters, while equally popular, are not used as frequently because students need to bring in their own material. This can be quite difficult if they don't posses a car or want to impulsively or quickly make something.&nbsp;</span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The proposed prototype is to install a large, locked cabinet in the mostly-empty break room just outside the Maker Lab that will hold laser-cutter-bed sized sheets of plywood and acrylic that students can purchase. The lab assistants running the open lab will use a credit card reader the Maker Lab staff has stated is already being installed. The cost of the sheets will be enough to refund the material cost, plus shipping, plus a small labor cost of TA's having to order and pick up the sheets. To simplify the system students will only be able to purchase full sheets and can either keep left overs to reuse to leave them in the community scrap bin.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><u style="font-size: 12px;">Related Links</u><u></u></div></div>Atorrancehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Andrew_Torrance&diff=49910Fellow:Andrew Torrance2017-02-17T03:21:36Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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<span style="font-size:medium;">Andrew Torrance is a UIF Candidate from Santa Clara University majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is passionate about using his skills in engineering and leadership to better the world and believes that SCU is a great place to start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He participates in numerous clubs including being the Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Project Manager for Santa Clara Innovation and Design (SCID), and member of SCU's Engineers Without Borders chapter. He also serves as a mentor for his former high school robotics FRC team.</span><br />
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<font size="3">His leadership circle includes three other leaders of SCID and they hope to make a positive impact on the SCU campus through growing SCID, improving the annual Designathon, and expanding the usefulness of the campus' Maker Lab.</font><br />
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Spring 2017<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Will_McMullen William McMullen]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Mjbelford Matt Belford]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rory_Pannkuk Rory Pannkuk]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University SCU Campus Page]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities SCU Student Priorities]<br />
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<div>= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara University has a huge amount of resources for all students who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, however, not many students are enrolled in these programs. &nbsp;There seems to be a rather large disconnect between the students and the programs. &nbsp;This is not for a lack of trying. &nbsp;Many organizations try very hard to organize to students, but there are not very good channels for connecting the students to their desired program. &nbsp;Sure, there are bulletin boards all around campus, and emails that go out, but most students ignore both of these methods. &nbsp;There needs to be a better way to reach a larger amount of students. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There is also the problem of divisions. &nbsp;Each school under the Santa Clara University umbrella (Arts and Science, Engineering, and Business) seems to have a disconnect. &nbsp;They all seem to work with in their own school and not promote innovation by working together. &nbsp;Bringing all these schools together would surely promote a greater pool of ideas and innovations. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;">STRATEGY #1: REINVENTING RESOURCE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #1: &nbsp;Camino Utilization</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara, as shown through our Landscape Canvas, has many resources - from classes to clubs, from speaker events to workshops - but these are far underutilized due to a system of communication that is both difficult for the administration to maintain and doesn't fully reach out to the students of each college. In the school of Engineering, there is a weekly email sent out that is hand-crafted every Sunday night that lists out most of the events that will be happening that week. Club meetings, Maker Lab events, workshops, and many others are listed off in this email- but in the eyes of many, it comes across as almost "spammy". Most notably, not all engineers are interested in all disciplines of engineering, so they need to sort through dozens of items in order to find one they might be interested in. Along those same lines, the Business and Arts/Sciences schools appear to lack anything close to this, and students have to be completely on top of the hundreds of emails they receive each week just to see what they’re actually interested in.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>By utilizing Camino, a resource that every student on campus already accesses on a near-daily basis, we could potentially completely rework how our school’s resources deal with communications. Through Camino, club leaders, event organizers, and school administrators could communicate resources directly to interested students by publishing announcements about events when they are announced, directly messaging students to work out questions or RSVPs, and automatically add the event dates, times, and details to the students’ Google calendars. Students would sign up for which “groups” they would be interested in, whether they be Entrepreneurship, Art, Career Preparation, whatever it might be, and only receive notifications for those interests. It would be much more streamlined and direct than our current means of communication, and also helps grey out the boundaries between schools.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: REINVENTING CLASSES</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Combining Pop-Up Classes</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In order to give the school an experience of innovation and entrepreneurship, Santa Clara offers various one-unit pop up classes on relevant topics. A problem with these classes is that they don’t satisfy any requirement, are offered at odd times, and they are only worth one unit. This makes it so students can't or don’t want to take them. Therefore by combining them all into a 4-unit class would solve this problem. A problem that hasn’t been resolved yet is the fact that these classes are traditionally at odd times and are hard to fit in the schedule. If the classes were all a part of the same class it wouldn’t have to be squeezed in eliminating the potential to take other classes. The largest benefit of these classes being in line so they can build off each other, and come together in a big final project that has a real world component.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PURSUE</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Multidisciplinary Startup Venture</span></span></span> ==<br />
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Something that our landscape canvas revealed about Santa Clara University was that there was a clear gap when it comes to pursuing a startup venture and applying the innovative and design skills into a real and practical sense. Being in the heart of the Silicon Valley and sitting on top of many valuable resources, SCU does not do enough to foster the development of student-driven startups and fails to encourage collaboration and experimentation across different disciplines within the Business, Engineering and Arts and Science schools.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;To remedy this, we outlined a startup competition which pairs students from multiple disciplines as well as industry professionals and professors to organize an idea and bring it into a real, physical startup. This would be a yearlong commitment where most of Fall Quarter would be spent in the team and skill building phase. Students would organize amongst themselves and pitch startup ideas to industry professionals/professors who are interesting in providing their expertise to those ideas into fruition. After teams organize themselves, Winter quarter would be where the idea finally transcends into a real startup. Teams would develop business strategies, produce prototypes of their product or service, develop marketing tools, create a distribution system and search for potential investors. School funding as well as resources such as the Maker Lab would be accessible to students to eliminate any financial risks and apprehension. Finally, by the end of Spring Quarter, students would present their startup and be judged by industry professionals, potentially having their ideas and talent taken beyond the campus confinements and into either a company or on their own as a fully functional startup.</div><br />
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= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY OF MAKER LAB</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Laser Cutter Material for Sale</span></span></span> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">One of the stated problems was that students fail to "experiment" and use the Maker Lab as much as it is open. Currently, the 3D printers are very popular because the school sponsors and provide free filament, up a reasonable amount, for students. However, the laser cutters, while equally popular, are not used as frequently because students need to bring in their own material. This can be quite difficult if they don't posses a car or want to impulsively or quickly make something.&nbsp;</span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The proposed prototype is to install a large, locked cabinet in the mostly-empty break room just outside the Maker Lab that will hold laser-cutter-bed sized sheets of plywood and acrylic that students can purchase. The lab assistants running the open lab will use a credit card reader the Maker Lab staff has stated is already being installed. The cost of the sheets will be enough to refund the material cost, plus shipping, plus a small labor cost of TA's having to order and pick up the sheets. To simplify the system students will only be able to purchase full sheets and can either keep left overs to reuse to leave them in the community scrap bin.</div></div>Atorrancehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities&diff=48580Priorities:Santa Clara University Student Priorities2017-02-05T19:27:07Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara University has a huge amount of resources for all students who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, however, not many students are enrolled in these programs. &nbsp;There seems to be a rather large disconnect between the students and the programs. &nbsp;This is not for a lack of trying. &nbsp;Many organizations try very hard to organize to students, but there are not very good channels for connecting the students to their desired program. &nbsp;Sure, there are bulletin boards all around campus, and emails that go out, but most students ignore both of these methods. &nbsp;There needs to be a better way to reach a larger amount of students. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There is also the problem of divisions. &nbsp;Each school under the Santa Clara University umbrella (Arts and Science, Engineering, and Business) seems to have a disconnect. &nbsp;They all seem to work with in their own school and not promote innovation by working together. &nbsp;Bringing all these schools together would surely promote a greater pool of ideas and innovations. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;">STRATEGY #1: REINVENTING RESOURCE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #1: &nbsp;Camino Utilization</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara, as shown through our Landscape Canvas, has many resources - from classes to clubs, from speaker events to workshops - but these are far underutilized due to a system of communication that is both difficult for the administration to maintain and doesn't fully reach out to the students of each college. In the school of Engineering, there is a weekly email sent out that is hand-crafted every Sunday night that lists out most of the events that will be happening that week. Club meetings, Maker Lab events, workshops, and many others are listed off in this email- but in the eyes of many, it comes across as almost "spammy". Most notably, not all engineers are interested in all disciplines of engineering, so they need to sort through dozens of items in order to find one they might be interested in. Along those same lines, the Business and Arts/Sciences schools appear to lack anything close to this, and students have to be completely on top of the hundreds of emails they receive each week just to see what they’re actually interested in.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>By utilizing Camino, a resource that every student on campus already accesses on a near-daily basis, we could potentially completely rework how our school’s resources deal with communications. Through Camino, club leaders, event organizers, and school administrators could communicate resources directly to interested students by publishing announcements about events when they are announced, directly messaging students to work out questions or RSVPs, and automatically add the event dates, times, and details to the students’ Google calendars. Students would sign up for which “groups” they would be interested in, whether they be Entrepreneurship, Art, Career Preparation, whatever it might be, and only receive notifications for those interests. It would be much more streamlined and direct than our current means of communication, and also helps grey out the boundaries between schools.</span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Combining Pop-Up Classes</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In order to give the school an experience of innovation and entrepreneurship, Santa Clara offers various one-unit pop up classes on relevant topics. A problem with these classes is that they don’t satisfy any requirement, are offered at odd times, and they are only worth one unit. This makes it so students can't or don’t want to take them. Therefore by combining them all into a 4-unit class would solve this problem. A problem that hasn’t been resolved yet is the fact that these classes are traditionally at odd times and are hard to fit in the schedule. If the classes were all a part of the same class it wouldn’t have to be squeezed in eliminating the potential to take other classes. The largest benefit of these classes being in line so they can build off each other, and come together in a big final project that has a real world component.</span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Multidisciplinary Startup Venture</span></span></span> ==<br />
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Something that our landscape canvas revealed about Santa Clara University was that there was a clear gap when it comes to pursuing a startup venture and applying the innovative and design skills into a real and practical sense. Being in the heart of the Silicon Valley and sitting on top of many valuable resources, SCU does not do enough to foster the development of student-driven startups and fails to encourage collaboration and experimentation across different disciplines within the Business, Engineering and Arts and Science schools.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;To remedy this, we outlined a startup competition which pairs students from multiple disciplines as well as industry professionals and professors to organize an idea and bring it into a real, physical startup. This would be a yearlong commitment where most of Fall Quarter would be spent in the team and skill building phase. Students would organize amongst themselves and pitch startup ideas to industry professionals/professors who are interesting in providing their expertise to those ideas into fruition. After teams organize themselves, Winter quarter would be where the idea finally transcends into a real startup. Teams would develop business strategies, produce prototypes of their product or service, develop marketing tools, create a distribution system and search for potential investors. School funding as well as resources such as the Maker Lab would be accessible to students to eliminate any financial risks and apprehension. Finally, by the end of Spring Quarter, students would present their startup and be judged by industry professionals, potentially having their ideas and talent taken beyond the campus confinements and into either a company or on their own as a fully functional startup.</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">One of the stated problems was that students fail to "experiment" and use the Maker Lab as much as it is open. Currently, the 3D printers are very popular because the school sponsors and provide free filament, up a reasonable amount, for students. However, the laser cutters, while equally popular, are not used as frequently because students need to bring in their own material. This can be quite difficult if they don't posses a car or want to impulsively or quickly make something.&nbsp;</span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The proposed prototype is to install a large, locked cabinet in the mostly-empty break room just outside the Maker Lab that will hold laser-cutter-bed sized sheets of plywood and acrylic that students can purchase. The lab assistants running the open lab will use a credit card reader the Maker Lab staff has stated is already being installed. The cost of the sheets will be enough to refund the material cost, plus shipping, plus a small labor cost of TA's having to order and pick up the sheets. To simplify the system students will only be able to purchase full sheets and can either keep left overs to reuse to leave them in the community scrap bin.</div></div>Atorrancehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities&diff=48579Priorities:Santa Clara University Student Priorities2017-02-05T19:25:21Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara University has a huge amount of resources for all students who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, however, not many students are enrolled in these programs. &nbsp;There seems to be a rather large disconnect between the students and the programs. &nbsp;This is not for a lack of trying. &nbsp;Many organizations try very hard to organize to students, but there are not very good channels for connecting the students to their desired program. &nbsp;Sure, there are bulletin boards all around campus, and emails that go out, but most students ignore both of these methods. &nbsp;There needs to be a better way to reach a larger amount of students. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There is also the problem of divisions. &nbsp;Each school under the Santa Clara University umbrella (Arts and Science, Engineering, and Business) seems to have a disconnect. &nbsp;They all seem to work with in their own school and not promote innovation by working together. &nbsp;Bringing all these schools together would surely promote a greater pool of ideas and innovations. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;">STRATEGY #1: REINVENTING RESOURCE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #1: &nbsp;Camino Utilization</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Santa Clara, as shown through our Landscape Canvas, has many resources - from classes to clubs, from speaker events to workshops - but these are far underutilized due to a system of communication that is both difficult for the administration to maintain and doesn't fully reach out to the students of each college. In the school of Engineering, there is a weekly email sent out that is hand-crafted every Sunday night that lists out most of the events that will be happening that week. Club meetings, Maker Lab events, workshops, and many others are listed off in this email- but in the eyes of many, it comes across as almost "spammy". Most notably, not all engineers are interested in all disciplines of engineering, so they need to sort through dozens of items in order to find one they might be interested in. Along those same lines, the Business and Arts/Sciences schools appear to lack anything close to this, and students have to be completely on top of the hundreds of emails they receive each week just to see what they’re actually interested in.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>By utilizing Camino, a resource that every student on campus already accesses on a near-daily basis, we could potentially completely rework how our school’s resources deal with communications. Through Camino, club leaders, event organizers, and school administrators could communicate resources directly to interested students by publishing announcements about events when they are announced, directly messaging students to work out questions or RSVPs, and automatically add the event dates, times, and details to the students’ Google calendars. Students would sign up for which “groups” they would be interested in, whether they be Entrepreneurship, Art, Career Preparation, whatever it might be, and only receive notifications for those interests. It would be much more streamlined and direct than our current means of communication, and also helps grey out the boundaries between schools.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: REINVENTING CLASSES</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Combining Pop-Up Classes</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In order to give the school an experience of innovation and entrepreneurship, Santa Clara offers various one-unit pop up classes on relevant topics. A problem with these classes is that they don’t satisfy any requirement, are offered at odd times, and they are only worth one unit. This makes it so students can't or don’t want to take them. Therefore by combining them all into a 4-unit class would solve this problem. A problem that hasn’t been resolved yet is the fact that these classes are traditionally at odd times and are hard to fit in the schedule. If the classes were all a part of the same class it wouldn’t have to be squeezed in eliminating the potential to take other classes. The largest benefit of these classes being in line so they can build off each other, and come together in a big final project that has a real world component.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY OF MAKER LAB</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Laser Cutter Material for Sale</span></span></span> ==<br />
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Something that our landscape canvas revealed about Santa Clara University was that there was a clear gap when it comes to pursuing a startup venture and applying the innovative and design skills into a real and practical sense. Being in the heart of the Silicon Valley and sitting on top of many valuable resources, SCU does not do enough to foster the development of student-driven startups and fails to encourage collaboration and experimentation across different disciplines within the Business, Engineering and Arts and Science schools.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;To remedy this, we outlined a startup competition which pairs students from multiple disciplines as well as industry professionals and professors to organize an idea and bring it into a real, physical startup. This would be a yearlong commitment where most of Fall Quarter would be spent in the team and skill building phase. Students would organize amongst themselves and pitch startup ideas to industry professionals/professors who are interesting in providing their expertise to those ideas into fruition. After teams organize themselves, Winter quarter would be where the idea finally transcends into a real startup. Teams would develop business strategies, produce prototypes of their product or service, develop marketing tools, create a distribution system and search for potential investors. School funding as well as resources such as the Maker Lab would be accessible to students to eliminate any financial risks and apprehension. Finally, by the end of Spring Quarter, students would present their startup and be judged by industry professionals, potentially having their ideas and talent taken beyond the campus confinements and into either a company or on their own as a fully functional startup.</div><br />
= <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY OF MAKER LAB</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Laser Cutter Material for Sale</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">One of the stated problems was that students fail to "experiment" and use the Maker Lab as much as it is open. Currently, the 3D printers are very popular because the school sponsors and provide free filament, up a reasonable amount, for students. However, the laser cutters, while equally popular, are not used as frequently because students need to bring in their own material. This can be quite difficult if they do not posses a car or want to impulsively or quickly make something.&nbsp;</span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The proposed prototype is to install a large, locked cabinet in the mostly-empty break room just outside the Maker Lab that will hold laser-cutter-bed sized sheets of plywood and acrylic that students can purchase. The lab assistants running the open lab will use a credit card reader the Maker Lab staff has stated is already being installed. The cost of the sheets will be enough to refund the material cost, plus shipping, plus a small labor cost of TA's having to order and pick up the sheets. To simplify the system students will only be able to purchase full sheets and can either keep left overs to reuse to leave them in the community scrap bin.</div></div>Atorrancehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Santa_Clara_University&diff=46729School:Santa Clara University2017-01-18T23:31:58Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Santa Clara University</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Santa Clara University has many institutions perfect for growing its students entrepreneurial skills. &nbsp;A very popular minor at the school is entrepreneurship, where students take classes in many different business disciplines. &nbsp;This minor also includes an internship with a start up in the Silicon Valley. &nbsp;The school also offers many clubs such as Santa Clara Innovation and Design, which teaches design methodologies where the curriculum falls short, and Santa Clara Entrepreneurs Organization, which organizes entrepreneurial events such as an elevator pitch comptetition. There are also many events run through the school such as the KEEN Entrepreneurial Mindset Challenge and the SCID Designathon.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Being in the Silicon Valley, a lot of the professors here at Santa Clara come from entrepreneurial professions. &nbsp;Many teachers in the business school teach with the entrepreneurial mindset, and give real world examples from their own experiences. &nbsp;Often, faculty also have important relationships with start up companies and encourage these companies to come speak on campus. &nbsp;Professors also get many grants that the hand off to students to encourage entrepreneurship. &nbsp;For example in 2008, the engineering school was given a very large grant to grow the entrepreneurial opportunities on campus, and that they have. &nbsp;Every single senior must create their own design product, considering many entrepreneurial ideals. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus facilitates the transfer of technology to students. &nbsp;It runs various programs and brings speakers on campus all in the name of entrepreneurship. &nbsp;The center provides a network of connections to various companies and technologies so the students can best flourish in the entrepreneurial mindset. &nbsp;Technology is also encouraged in the Maker Lab at Santa Clara University, where any student who goes through training can use the lab as much as they wish and create anything they want there. &nbsp;This very much encourages the creative mindset on campus. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The university has many useful connections with companies in and out of the Silicon Valley. &nbsp;The “Bronco Link” is a site where students can see job and internship postings for companies looking for Santa Clara University students. &nbsp;There are many startups and entrepreneurial opportunities on the sight. &nbsp;As stated earlier, there are also very many useful connections with teachers. &nbsp;Since so many teachers have worked in industry in is very easy to ask a teacher to set up an interview, and all teachers are willing to help. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Santa Clara very much encourages its students to aid in regional and local economic efforts. &nbsp;One very integral way is through the many jobs that Santa Clara University supplies the area with. &nbsp;Students are given very many opportunities in the area and often stay to work in the area. &nbsp;The school also runs collaborations with quite a few businesses in the area. &nbsp;An example of this is the collaboration with NASA and the engineering school, in which many students can work. &nbsp;The school also encourages its students to be socially responsible in all things including promoting charitable programs in dorms, and even requiring a class that works with some kind of charity. &nbsp;Santa Clara very much cares and utilizes the surrounding area in a beneficial way.</span></span><br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L3lAsrLGTAMQmXXNDKrs7w5WYepVfGsyUq-L6UEsLn8/edit#gid=0 Here is a link] to our Landscape Canvas assessment which breaks down and highlights the courses, programs, and organizations that promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship on our campus.<br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>Atorrancehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Resource:How_to_organize_a_Makeathon&diff=46368Resource:How to organize a Makeathon2017-01-11T04:08:13Z<p>Atorrance: </p>
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<div>== Introduction ==<br />
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Makeathons are an excellent way of collaborating with students from all around campus in different majors. It enables them to use their creativity to innovate and explore new ideas that they may have. It is a competition, but it is focused on learning rather than winning. Its purpose is to help students gain experience with the process of design and the use of equipment that they would normally miss out on in the classroom.&nbsp;<br />
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== Goals&nbsp; ==<br />
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To run a successful Makeathon, several goals should be outlined. What are you trying to accomplish and why?&nbsp;<br />
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*Develop passion and hands on skills with tools and other machinery<br />
*Connect with resources and other participants<br />
*Invest in people<br />
*Have a good experience and want participants to come back the next year to mentor/help<br />
*Have it be less about competition, but more about learning, forming relationships, and having fun<br />
*Gather a diversity of students across all majors&nbsp;<br />
*Safety<br />
*Funding<br />
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== Where To Begin ==<br />
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There is a lot of planning that needs to happen beforehand and as well as a number of factors to take into consideration.<br />
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<u>Funding and Advertising</u><br />
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In order to cover the costs of all supplies and other equipment tools, there must be sponsors. A good route to take is looking at Kent State in Ohio's Fashion Tech Hackathon and to have tiers as sponsors. Target is also another good option. It can be expensive, depending on the number of people you expect to be attending, which is why advertising is so crucial. There should be enough supplies for all participants, not too little and not too much. It should be done in several different ways to achieve the best outcome.<br />
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*Use Eventbrite for tickets and also keep track of how many are officially attending<br />
*Advertise for a long period of time to gain more participants<br />
*Spread by word of mouth<br />
*Make posters around campus size 11x17<br />
*Create facebook event and use money to spread word<br />
*Class visits&nbsp;<br />
*Email professors of relevant classes<br />
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<br/><u>Rules</u><br />
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*Experience not required, all makers welcome<br />
*Teams allowed in without an idea<br />
*Must be a student attending the school (liability issue otherwise)<br />
*Must attend a safety training during the event<br />
*Sign informal waiver (power tools, safety, etc.)<br />
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<br/><u>Create Theme</u><br />
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*"Grand Challenges" - worlds biggest problems<br />
*Keep it open ended enough so that participants can make anything that they want without too many restrictions<br />
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<br/><u>Where The Session Should be Located</u><br />
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*Makerlab<br />
*Big open area<br />
*Lots of rooom for tables and chairs and power equipment<br />
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<br/><u>Materials Needed</u><br />
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*Pipe cleaners<br />
*Craft supplies<br />
*Duct tape<br />
*Spray paint<br />
*Wood/metal/plastic stock<br />
*Hardware/fasteners<br />
*Faculty mentors<br />
*Hand power tools<br />
*3D printers<br />
*Large machining equipment (CNC's, lathes...)<br />
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== Running the Makeathon ==<br />
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To have it run as smoothly and as successful as possible, a good schedule should be planned so that there is enough time for the participants to think, plan, build and present their ideas in front of the judges.&nbsp;<br />
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<u>Dates and Times</u><br />
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*Weekend long (Friday - Saturday or Sunday)<br />
*Give them an open ended task, dont make anything too specific, let them build anything they want to!<br />
*Friday - form teams, mingling, music, food, meet new people, brainstorm, learn prompt, choose what they build<br />
*Saturday - mentors/professors help with the build, student volunteers tell them where supplies located, judging takes place at end of day<br />
*Allow enough time for prototyping and brainstorming<br />
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<u>Judging</u><br />
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Two different types of judging can be done, depending on your preference.<br />
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*Students create 5 powerpoint slides based on a template and then present in front of the judges<br />
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#Context<br />
#Need Statement<br />
#How solution addresses the problem<br />
#What you did this weekend<br />
#Free Slide<br />
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*There will be a vote for the crowd favorite<br />
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A few things to also take into consideration. Who will be the judges(if you choose to go with the powerpoint option) and what will the prize be(or will there even be a prize)? It should be noted that, usually, a competition like this without a big prize will attract more students because they are more interested about learning than winning.<br />
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== Continuing Their Ideas ==<br />
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What happens after the Makeathon is over? If particpants enjoyed it, let them know what kinds of classes they should think about taking in the future to pursue their passions. Students should be given advice and help on what their next steps should be. It'll benefit them, and make them want to come back again next year.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He participates in numerous clubs including being the Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Project Manager for Santa Clara Innovation and Design (SCID), and member of SCU's Engineers Without Borders chapter. He also serves as a mentor for his former high school robotics FRC team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">Andrew Torrance is a UIF Candidate from Santa Clara University majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is passionate about using his skills in engineering and leadership to better the world and believes that SCU is a great place to start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He participates in numerous clubs including being the Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Project Manager for Santa Clara Innovation and Design (SCID), and member of SCU's Engineers Without Borders chapter. He also serves as a mentor for his former high school robotics FRC team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He participates in numerous clubs including being the Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Project Manager for Santa Clara Innovation and Design (SCID), and member of SCU's Engineers Without Borders chapter. He also serves as a mentor for his former high school robotics FRC team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">Andrew Torrance is a UIF Candidate from Santa Clara University majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is passionate about using his skills in engineering and leadership to better the world and believes that SCU is a great place to start!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">He participates in numerous clubs including being the Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Project Manager for Santa Clara Innovation and Design (SCID), and member of SCU's Engineers Without Borders chapter. He also serves as a mentor for his former high school robotics FRC team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">Andrew Torrance is a UIF Candidate from Santa Clara University majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is passionate about using his skills in engineering and leadership to better the world and believes that SCU is a great place to start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He participates in numerous clubs including being the Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Project Manager for Santa Clara Innovation and Design (SCID), and member of SCU's Engineer's Without Borders chapter. He also serves as a mentor for his former high school robotics FRC team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">Andrew Torrance is a UIF Candidate from Santa Clara University majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is passionate about using his skills in engineering and leadership to better the world and believes that SCU is a great place to start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He participates in numerous clubs including being the Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Project Manager for Santa Clara Innovation and Design (SCID), and member of SCU's Engineer's Without Borders chapter. He also serves as a mentor for his former high school robotics FRC team.</span><br />
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