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https://universityinnovation.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Brianaalmonte University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en] 2026-05-20T22:37:36Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.33.1 https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Binghamton_University&diff=46771 School:Binghamton University 2017-01-19T04:35:39Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div>== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Overview<br/></span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] <span style="font-size:medium;">Binghamton University, primarily known for being a research-based institution, is a public university located in Vestal, New York. It is home to 13,632&nbsp; undergraduate and 3,660 graduate students coming from a total of 44 states and 114 different countries. The university consists of 7 different schools including - but not limited to - Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the Decker School of Nursing, the School of Management, etc. strongly pushing entrepreneurship. After years of development and planning, the infrastructure is in place to allow startups to thrive.&nbsp; Student engagement with these resources is low, relatively speaking. Pushing more students towards the university’s infrastructure is a cornerstone to not only the office of innovation’s mission but also the office of the president. Being one of the most cost effective educations in the northeast is pushing more qualified students into the school but somehow they are not filtering into the entrepreneurship track as well as they could be.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span><br /> <br /> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>'''</span> =<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">There are a robust set of programs and activities that revolve around entrepreneurship. Idea pitches are often regarded as a good stepping stone for students who want to get their feet wet. The cash prizes for the best performing ideas are just enough to get most teams into a prototyping phase. There are also a few well-respected courses in innovation and creativity that can further a student'</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s education during a semester. There are also various events that reward innovative thinking around campus including several hackathons and a 3d printing lab.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:large;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span>'''</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The faculty at Binghamton University are more often than not encouraging when a student approaches them with an idea but they rarely initiate the conversation. Professors involved in the startup ecosystem are more willing to open a up a lecture with a story about a start-up in the news (Rent-the-runway was used recently for example) but that is much rarer. Staff are, especially, equipped to innovate themselves professors in the engineering school. The school has invested heavily in the lab equipment and up to date facilities which can allow professors to expand and hopefully commercialize their research.</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size: large;">Actively&nbsp;supporting the university tech transfer function</span>'''</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The office of innovation and entrepreneurship is formally named the inter-university technology transfer office and there are dedicated lawyers and administrators to help academics commercialize their technology. It is only recently that the office has begun to heavily invest in undergraduate entrepreneurship. They curate a “B-Innovative” student incubator in a building on campus which as had scores of startups move through it. It also runs another incubator in the Innovative Technologies Complex that houses undergraduate and&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:medium;">non-student&nbsp;startups. The office of I&E often&nbsp;leave&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">their doors open for students to walk in with questions about a particular resource or just life as an entrepreneur.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;">'''Facilitating university-industry collaboration'''</span></span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The university is in the process of constructive a massive downtown innovation center that will host startups and laboratories. There are also several access points to serious funding but access to those sources are restricted. Take the NYS business plan competition. The winner receives a grant of half a million dollars but the competition is intense and no student from Binghamton has even gotten close to winning. There are ample events for networking but, as far as investors and capital goes, let's just say that most startups are forced to go lean for a long time.</span></span></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span></span></span><br/> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students do not have much involvement with the local economic development despite having the resources available to do so. Organizations like SUNY best bring together a whole host of local professionals downtown to create awareness, but the number of students that attend these meetups are surprisingly low.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They unfortunately either have no awareness or are aware of the economic and social issues that persist in the city around the university but nothing is done to resolve these issues. The school also does not seem to have dedicated staff members that take initiative to bridge the gap between the university undergraduate population and the surrounding community. This is an issue that has become evidently clear and could use the help of entrepreneurial initiatives to properly address it.</span></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Binghamton_University&diff=46770 School:Binghamton University 2017-01-19T04:33:09Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div>== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Overview<br/></span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] <span style="font-size:medium;">Binghamton University, primarily known for being a research-based institution, is a public university located in Vestal, New York. It is home to 13,632&nbsp; undergraduate and 3,660 graduate students coming from a total of 44 states and 114 different countries. The university consists of 7 different schools including - but not limited to - Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the Decker School of Nursing, the School of Management, etc. strongly pushing entrepreneurship. After years of development and planning, the infrastructure is in place to allow startups to thrive.&nbsp; Student engagement with these resources is low, relatively speaking. Pushing more students towards the university’s infrastructure is a cornerstone to not only the office of innovation’s mission but also the office of the president. Being one of the most cost effective educations in the northeast is pushing more qualified students into the school but somehow they are not filtering into the entrepreneurship track as well as they could be.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span><br /> <br /> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>'''</span> =<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">There are a robust set of programs and activities that revolve around entrepreneurship. Idea pitches are often regarded as a good stepping stone for students who want to get their feet wet. The cash prizes for the best performing ideas are just enough to get most teams into a prototyping phase. There are also a few well-respected courses in innovation and creativity that can further a student'</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s education during a semester. There are also various events that reward innovative thinking around campus including several hackathons and a 3d printing lab.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:large;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span>'''</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The faculty at Binghamton University are more often than not encouraging when a student approaches them with an idea but they rarely initiate the conversation. Professors involved in the startup ecosystem are more willing to open a up a lecture with a story about a start-up in the news (Rent-the-runway was used recently for example) but that is much rarer. Staff are, especially, equipped to innovate themselves professors in the engineering school. The school has invested heavily in the lab equipment and up to date facilities which can allow professors to expand and hopefully commercialize their research.</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size: large;">Actively&nbsp;supporting the university tech transfer function</span>'''</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The office of innovation and entrepreneurship is formally named the inter-university technology transfer office and there are dedicated lawyers and administrators to help academics commercialize their technology. It is only recently that the office has begun to heavily invest in undergraduate entrepreneurship. They curate a “B-Innovative” student incubator in a building on campus which as had scores of startups move through it. It also runs another incubator in the Innovative Technologies Complex that houses undergraduate and&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:medium;">non-student&nbsp;startups. The office of I&E often&nbsp;leave&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">their doors open for students to walk in with questions about a particular resource or just life as an entrepreneur.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;">'''Facilitating university-industry collaboration'''</span></span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The university is in the process of constructive a massive downtown innovation center that will host startups and laboratories. There are also several access points to serious funding but access to those sources are restricted. Take the NYS business plan competition. The winner receives a grant of half a million dollars but the competition is intense and no student from Binghamton has even gotten close to winning. There are ample events for networking but, as far as investors and capital goes, let's just say that most startups are forced to go lean for a long time.</span></span></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span></span><br/></span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1"</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students do not have much involvement with the local economic development despite having the resources available to do so. Organizations like SUNY best bring together a whole host of local professionals downtown to create awareness, but the number of students that attend these meetups are surprisingly low.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They unfortunately either have no awareness or are aware of the economic and social issues that persist in the city around the university but nothing is done to resolve these issues. The school also does not seem to have dedicated staff members that take initiative to bridge the gap between the university undergraduate population and the surrounding community.</span></span><br /> <div><br/></div><br /> <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1"</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1"</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1"</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1"</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1"</span></span></span></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Binghamton_University&diff=46769 School:Binghamton University 2017-01-19T04:32:06Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div>== Overview<br/> ==<br /> <br /> [[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame]] <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Binghamton University, primarily known for being a research-based institution, is a public university located in Vestal, New York. It is home to 13,632&nbsp; undergraduate and 3,660 graduate students coming from a total of 44 states and 114 different countries. The university consists of 7 different schools including - but not limited to - Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the Decker School of Nursing, the School of Management, etc. strongly pushing entrepreneurship. After years of development and planning, the infrastructure is in place to allow startups to thrive.&nbsp; Student engagement with these resources is low, relatively speaking. Pushing more students towards the university’s infrastructure is a cornerstone to not only the office of innovation’s mission but also the office of the president. Being one of the most cost effective educations in the northeast is pushing more qualified students into the school but somehow they are not filtering into the entrepreneurship track as well as they could be.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> = '''<span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>''' =<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are a robust set of programs and activities that revolve around entrepreneurship. Idea pitches are often regarded as a good stepping stone for students who want to get their feet wet. The cash prizes for the best performing ideas are just enough to get most teams into a prototyping phase. There are also a few well-respected courses in innovation and creativity that can further a student'</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">s education during a semester. There are also various events that reward innovative thinking around campus including several hackathons and a 3d printing lab.</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == '''<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>''' ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1">The faculty at Binghamton University are more often than not encouraging when a student approaches them with an idea but they rarely initiate the conversation. Professors involved in the startup ecosystem are more willing to open a up a lecture with a story about a start-up in the news (Rent-the-runway was used recently for example) but that is much rarer. Staff are, especially, equipped to innovate themselves professors in the engineering school. The school has invested heavily in the lab equipment and up to date facilities which can allow professors to expand and hopefully commercialize their research.</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == '''<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Actively&nbsp;supporting the university tech transfer function</span></span>''' ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The office of innovation and entrepreneurship is formally named the inter-university technology transfer office and there are dedicated lawyers and administrators to help academics commercialize their technology. It is only recently that the office has begun to heavily invest in undergraduate entrepreneurship. They curate a “B-Innovative” student incubator in a building on campus which as had scores of startups move through it. It also runs another incubator in the Innovative Technologies Complex that houses undergraduate and&nbsp;</span></span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">non-student&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">startups. The office of I&E often&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">leave&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">their doors open for students to walk in with questions about a particular resource or just life as an entrepreneur.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == <span style="font-size:large;">'''<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Facilitating university-industry collaboration</font>'''</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The university is in the process of constructive a massive downtown innovation center that will host startups and laboratories. There are also several access points to serious funding but access to those sources are restricted. Take the NYS business plan competition. The winner receives a grant of half a million dollars but the competition is intense and no student from Binghamton has even gotten close to winning. There are ample events for networking but, as far as investors and capital goes, let's just say that most startups are forced to go lean for a long time.</span></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <parsererror style="display: block; white-space: pre; border: 2px solid #c77; padding: 0 1em 0 1em; margin: 1em; background-color: #fdd; color: black"><br /> === This page contains the following errors: ===<br /> <div style="font-family:monospace;font-size:12px">error on line 1 at column 418: attributes construct error </div><br /> === Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. ===<br /> </parsererror><br /> == <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span></span></span><br/> ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-5916edb1-b4fe-df62-191e-2e5886903f85"></span></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Binghamton_University&diff=46641 School:Binghamton University 2017-01-18T04:38:07Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div>== Overview[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> == Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University Technology Transfer Function ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University - Industry Collaboration ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Regional and Local Economic Development ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Other ==<br /> <br /> == Related Links ==</div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Binghamton_University&diff=46640 School:Binghamton University 2017-01-18T04:09:39Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div>== Overview[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame]] ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> == Student Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University Technology Transfer Function ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University - Industry Collaboration ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Regional and Local Economic Development ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Other ==<br /> <br /> == Related Links ==</div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Binghamton_University&diff=46639 School:Binghamton University 2017-01-18T04:06:22Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div>== Overview[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|thumb|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> == Student Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University Technology Transfer Function ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University - Industry Collaboration ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Regional and Local Economic Development ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Other ==<br /> <br /> == Related Links ==</div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Binghamton_University&diff=46638 School:Binghamton University 2017-01-18T04:06:03Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div>== Overview[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|border|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> == Student Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University Technology Transfer Function ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University - Industry Collaboration ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Regional and Local Economic Development ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Other ==<br /> <br /> == Related Links ==</div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Binghamton_University&diff=46636 School:Binghamton University 2017-01-18T04:05:38Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div>== Overview[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|thumb]] ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Student Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University Technology Transfer Function ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == University - Industry Collaboration ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Regional and Local Economic Development ==<br /> <br /> Sample text<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Other ==<br /> <br /> == Related Links ==</div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg&diff=46635 File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg 2017-01-18T04:04:30Z

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Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Resource:How_to_Establish_Innovation_Coaching&diff=46121 Resource:How to Establish Innovation Coaching 2017-01-08T20:26:28Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Before we start to explain this topic, let’s introduce the fellow who helped start it all.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">..</span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7693-47b1-f326-814d22682618"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Meenu Singh began as a University Innovation Fellow in 2014 as a student of Civil Engineering and Philosophy at the[[File:ND72371.JPG|thumb|ND72371.JPG]] University of Maryland. As a fellow, she learned about innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. After her training, Meenu was able to apply these concepts to her own campus when she found that her peers were unable to make their own ideas come to fruition despite their education. By helping her peers, Meenu was able to find passion in innovation coaching, leading her to her current job today, working as an Innovation Specialist at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Following, you will find a how to guide on creating an innovation coaching program much like Meenu’s at the University of Maryland.</span></span><br /> <br /> == Why Do We Need Innovation Coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7694-8a62-feba-19d5401d36cc"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In many cases, students may have great ideas but do not know how to make them happen. Because of this lack of empowerment, Meenu Singh helped create a program at the University of Maryland called innovation coaching to help empower students to make their ideas come to life. By showing students how to be more creative and innovative as well as by connecting them to resources and people that can help them in the classroom, innovation coaches encourage all students’ ideas and essentially become a guide or mentor to show other students that they hold the power in their ideas.</span></span><br /> <br /> == What is Innovation Coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7695-26e2-3d6d-a0ce4133e776"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation coaching is a peer-to-peer program that allows students to coach or mentor other students at their university. These coaches help foster innovation in other students by answering any questions students may have, encouraging students in their ideas and projects, connecting students to helpful resources, and being a liaison between students and professors. In addition, innovation coaches may help professors modify course curriculum to allow for more creativity and innovation in classes. Innovation coaches are not TAs, though they work in the classroom much like TAs. Instead of being an aid to professors, innovation coaches are present to help students specifically. They are able to answer questions and translate information from professor to student and vice versa. In many cases, innovation coaches are able to help empower other students to see that they can make their ideas a reality.</span></span><br /> <br /> == How Meenu Did It ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c0-328f-f1c3-af56e65ced35"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2013, the University of Maryland took the time to create an innovation center of their own, the </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/ <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center</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;">, to benefit their proud Diamondback community. Unfortunately, the students didn’t know what it would be used for and assumed that it was just another building dedicated as a campus incubator or site for seed-funding. Yet fortunately, Meenu was not only a Fellow but a member of UMD’s student government, meaning that she was both tasked with aiding in the designing of the center and was led with her passion for higher education and the need to revolutionize the student curriculum. Her first actions along with 19 other students and a mentor (who specialized in human centered innovation), were to implement the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process.</span></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the top methods that lead the transformation of ideation into reality - used by many and included in the UIF training, this process is constructed by 3 simple elements of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">identification</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /> <br /> [[File:DesignProcChart.png|center|DesignProcChart.png]]<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first phase is one of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pinpointing the opportunities that are in need by the concerned subjects and that can be provided by that which is being designed</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu and her peers attended to her campus, making sure to interview students of all backgrounds, majors and perspectives, questioned what needed to be answered most: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What do you feel is missing from campus? What do you think the new innovation center should provide?</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What they found was that many students lacked and wished for the opportunity to be creative in their courses and wanted to gain credit for influential projects outside of class, especially those outside majors that were </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deemed innovative</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;">. When asked about what the most surprising element was in regards to this entire process, Meenu stated that “when I asked a peer named Maya, ‘If you had an idea what would you do with it?’ she stated that she would, ‘lament the future nonexistence of that idea’ and I couldn’t believe it. It was the saddest thing to hear such a successful student feel unempowered. To hear from students that didn’t know if I&E was for them was eye opening.” Clearly the problem had been identified; the need for an element that promoted and supported creative thought needed to be formed.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The team immediately took their findings back to the center’s administrative board to implement the second phase: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation of the idea/solution</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the problem is defined such information has to be used to then guide the solution</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;">. That not only includes designing something that tends to certain necessities but the production of the resources needed to implement the solutions as well.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With UDM’s student government and the center’s administration board having direct access to funding and materials, Meenu’s team presented their findings and initial ideas, highlighting their peers concerns regarding their creative confidence and competence, in order to ultimately collaborate on what their new innovation center could provide and find what was needed in order to do so.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together they finalized the goal to introduce both innovation and entrepreneurship to UDM’s students by working with faculty to reshape their curriculum. Which would be done by giving their students the ability to take classes that are project based, making sure to transcend any normative </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">book-report-esque</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;">research tendencies, by embedding the very same designing thinking process throughout the DNA of their courses. Together, the idea of allowing their students to be mentored by innovative coaches was born.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That collaboration successfully led to the final </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization </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;">element of the design process. Such a phase is made up of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">continually producing great prototypes and testing</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;">. For the team, that meant putting their resources (money, faculty, departments) to use in producing their idea of restructuring their courses and being able to consistently reflect on their progress. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To innovate their innovation!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having produced UDM’s fourth cohort, Meenu and her team have gone through noticing that students respond better with peers as their coaches than faculty. Carefully determining how the students that were to become peer innovative coaches (or PICs) were to be compensated and figuring out methods of PIC training and key timelines. All by actively being a part of the process and reflecting throughout the PIC experience. Today, Meenu looks forward to expanding the program and “getting PICs integrated more into helping the faculty with forming the projects” in order to aid their </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on-the-ground</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;">perspective.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, the University of Maryland has an extremely admirable two-semester-long training that students take in order to understand the design thinking process, take on the mindsets that are conducive to innovation, and see that in order to truly be able to be influential a peer innovation coach must be a coach (an individual who guides and works alongside students) rather than an advisor (an individual that just instructs and solely helps the faculty). The result leads to a vast amount of students gaining creative competence from their peers and now knowing what to do with ideas that could impact their communities and eventually the world!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Here’s their </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PIC-Role-Description-and-Application-1.pdf <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PIC application</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!)</span><br /> <br /> [[File:PeerInnApp1.png|thumb|left|450px|PeerInnApp1.png]] [[File:PeerInnApp2.png|thumb|right|450px|PeerInnApp2.png]]<br /> <br /> == Outcomes of the Project ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-a925a71d-7fbb-52d4-1d0a-e65ec1e5d4fa"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu came to the realization through the program that there were so many students that didn’t believe “entrepreneurship was for them” or that they had any agency of creating change. This appalled her and thus created a goal for the program to empower these students and give them the confidence and preparation they needed to realize their goals and aspirations. She found that many students shifted their mentalities after being involved in that some were able to realize their love for innovation and entrepreneurship. They wanted to ensure that students were the main thinkers and designers on projects, and through these hands on experiences, they could realize their true potentials. Through this program, Meenu has expressed witnessing students, through reading their written reflections, both accomplish their goals and feel this sense of empowerment they need as they learn in their individual ways. Meenu, to this day, continues to work for the Peer Innovation Coaching program and tells us that it continues to adapt as the program grows and they discover the different ways in which people learn best. She advises us all that in our own ventures as UIF trainees that we should definitely be open to listening and learning from each other. With this in mind, we as fellows will be able to make the best out of our experiences and take away beneficial ideas in order to better our own schools through learning from others. She finally reminds us all that peer coaching can be utilized through any project and every school should try it.</span></span><br /> <div><br/></div></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Resource:How_to_Establish_Innovation_Coaching&diff=46120 Resource:How to Establish Innovation Coaching 2017-01-08T20:26:15Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Before we start to explain this topic, let’s introduce the fellow who helped start it all.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">..</span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7693-47b1-f326-814d22682618"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Meenu Singh began as a University Innovation Fellow in 2014 as a student of Civil Engineering and Philosophy at the[[File:ND72371.JPG|thumb|ND72371.JPG]] University of Maryland. As a fellow, she learned about innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. After her training, Meenu was able to apply these concepts to her own campus when she found that her peers were unable to make their own ideas come to fruition despite their education. By helping her peers, Meenu was able to find passion in innovation coaching, leading her to her current job today, working as an Innovation Specialist at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Following, you will find a how to guide on creating an innovation coaching program much like Meenu’s at the University of Maryland.</span></span><br /> <br /> == Why Do We Need Innovation Coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7694-8a62-feba-19d5401d36cc"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In many cases, students may have great ideas but do not know how to make them happen. Because of this lack of empowerment, Meenu Singh helped create a program at the University of Maryland called innovation coaching to help empower students to make their ideas come to life. By showing students how to be more creative and innovative as well as by connecting them to resources and people that can help them in the classroom, innovation coaches encourage all students’ ideas and essentially become a guide or mentor to show other students that they hold the power in their ideas.</span></span><br /> <br /> == What is Innovation Coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7695-26e2-3d6d-a0ce4133e776"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation coaching is a peer-to-peer program that allows students to coach or mentor other students at their university. These coaches help foster innovation in other students by answering any questions students may have, encouraging students in their ideas and projects, connecting students to helpful resources, and being a liaison between students and professors. In addition, innovation coaches may help professors modify course curriculum to allow for more creativity and innovation in classes. Innovation coaches are not TAs, though they work in the classroom much like TAs. Instead of being an aid to professors, innovation coaches are present to help students specifically. They are able to answer questions and translate information from professor to student and vice versa. In many cases, innovation coaches are able to help empower other students to see that they can make their ideas a reality.</span></span><br /> <br /> == How Meenu Dit It ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c0-328f-f1c3-af56e65ced35"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2013, the University of Maryland took the time to create an innovation center of their own, the </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/ <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center</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;">, to benefit their proud Diamondback community. Unfortunately, the students didn’t know what it would be used for and assumed that it was just another building dedicated as a campus incubator or site for seed-funding. Yet fortunately, Meenu was not only a Fellow but a member of UMD’s student government, meaning that she was both tasked with aiding in the designing of the center and was led with her passion for higher education and the need to revolutionize the student curriculum. Her first actions along with 19 other students and a mentor (who specialized in human centered innovation), were to implement the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process.</span></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the top methods that lead the transformation of ideation into reality - used by many and included in the UIF training, this process is constructed by 3 simple elements of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">identification</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /> <br /> [[File:DesignProcChart.png|center|DesignProcChart.png]]<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first phase is one of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pinpointing the opportunities that are in need by the concerned subjects and that can be provided by that which is being designed</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu and her peers attended to her campus, making sure to interview students of all backgrounds, majors and perspectives, questioned what needed to be answered most: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What do you feel is missing from campus? What do you think the new innovation center should provide?</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What they found was that many students lacked and wished for the opportunity to be creative in their courses and wanted to gain credit for influential projects outside of class, especially those outside majors that were </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deemed innovative</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;">. When asked about what the most surprising element was in regards to this entire process, Meenu stated that “when I asked a peer named Maya, ‘If you had an idea what would you do with it?’ she stated that she would, ‘lament the future nonexistence of that idea’ and I couldn’t believe it. It was the saddest thing to hear such a successful student feel unempowered. To hear from students that didn’t know if I&E was for them was eye opening.” Clearly the problem had been identified; the need for an element that promoted and supported creative thought needed to be formed.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The team immediately took their findings back to the center’s administrative board to implement the second phase: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation of the idea/solution</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the problem is defined such information has to be used to then guide the solution</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;">. That not only includes designing something that tends to certain necessities but the production of the resources needed to implement the solutions as well.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With UDM’s student government and the center’s administration board having direct access to funding and materials, Meenu’s team presented their findings and initial ideas, highlighting their peers concerns regarding their creative confidence and competence, in order to ultimately collaborate on what their new innovation center could provide and find what was needed in order to do so.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together they finalized the goal to introduce both innovation and entrepreneurship to UDM’s students by working with faculty to reshape their curriculum. Which would be done by giving their students the ability to take classes that are project based, making sure to transcend any normative </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">book-report-esque</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;">research tendencies, by embedding the very same designing thinking process throughout the DNA of their courses. Together, the idea of allowing their students to be mentored by innovative coaches was born.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That collaboration successfully led to the final </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization </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;">element of the design process. Such a phase is made up of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">continually producing great prototypes and testing</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;">. For the team, that meant putting their resources (money, faculty, departments) to use in producing their idea of restructuring their courses and being able to consistently reflect on their progress. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To innovate their innovation!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having produced UDM’s fourth cohort, Meenu and her team have gone through noticing that students respond better with peers as their coaches than faculty. Carefully determining how the students that were to become peer innovative coaches (or PICs) were to be compensated and figuring out methods of PIC training and key timelines. All by actively being a part of the process and reflecting throughout the PIC experience. Today, Meenu looks forward to expanding the program and “getting PICs integrated more into helping the faculty with forming the projects” in order to aid their </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on-the-ground</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;">perspective.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, the University of Maryland has an extremely admirable two-semester-long training that students take in order to understand the design thinking process, take on the mindsets that are conducive to innovation, and see that in order to truly be able to be influential a peer innovation coach must be a coach (an individual who guides and works alongside students) rather than an advisor (an individual that just instructs and solely helps the faculty). The result leads to a vast amount of students gaining creative competence from their peers and now knowing what to do with ideas that could impact their communities and eventually the world!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Here’s their </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PIC-Role-Description-and-Application-1.pdf <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PIC application</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!)</span><br /> <br /> [[File:PeerInnApp1.png|thumb|left|450px|PeerInnApp1.png]] [[File:PeerInnApp2.png|thumb|right|450px|PeerInnApp2.png]]<br /> <br /> == Outcomes of the Project ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-a925a71d-7fbb-52d4-1d0a-e65ec1e5d4fa"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu came to the realization through the program that there were so many students that didn’t believe “entrepreneurship was for them” or that they had any agency of creating change. This appalled her and thus created a goal for the program to empower these students and give them the confidence and preparation they needed to realize their goals and aspirations. She found that many students shifted their mentalities after being involved in that some were able to realize their love for innovation and entrepreneurship. They wanted to ensure that students were the main thinkers and designers on projects, and through these hands on experiences, they could realize their true potentials. Through this program, Meenu has expressed witnessing students, through reading their written reflections, both accomplish their goals and feel this sense of empowerment they need as they learn in their individual ways. Meenu, to this day, continues to work for the Peer Innovation Coaching program and tells us that it continues to adapt as the program grows and they discover the different ways in which people learn best. She advises us all that in our own ventures as UIF trainees that we should definitely be open to listening and learning from each other. With this in mind, we as fellows will be able to make the best out of our experiences and take away beneficial ideas in order to better our own schools through learning from others. She finally reminds us all that peer coaching can be utilized through any project and every school should try it.</span></span><br /> <div><br/></div></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Resource:How_to_Establish_Innovation_Coaching&diff=46119 Resource:How to Establish Innovation Coaching 2017-01-08T20:26:03Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Before we start to explain this topic, let’s introduce the fellow who helped start it all.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">..</span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7693-47b1-f326-814d22682618"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Meenu Singh began as a University Innovation Fellow in 2014 as a student of Civil Engineering and Philosophy at the[[File:ND72371.JPG|thumb|ND72371.JPG]] University of Maryland. As a fellow, she learned about innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. After her training, Meenu was able to apply these concepts to her own campus when she found that her peers were unable to make their own ideas come to fruition despite their education. By helping her peers, Meenu was able to find passion in innovation coaching, leading her to her current job today, working as an Innovation Specialist at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Following, you will find a how to guide on creating an innovation coaching program much like Meenu’s at the University of Maryland.</span></span><br /> <br /> == Why Do We Need Innovation Coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7694-8a62-feba-19d5401d36cc"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In many cases, students may have great ideas but do not know how to make them happen. Because of this lack of empowerment, Meenu Singh helped create a program at the University of Maryland called innovation coaching to help empower students to make their ideas come to life. By showing students how to be more creative and innovative as well as by connecting them to resources and people that can help them in the classroom, innovation coaches encourage all students’ ideas and essentially become a guide or mentor to show other students that they hold the power in their ideas.</span></span><br /> <br /> == What is innovation coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7695-26e2-3d6d-a0ce4133e776"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation coaching is a peer-to-peer program that allows students to coach or mentor other students at their university. These coaches help foster innovation in other students by answering any questions students may have, encouraging students in their ideas and projects, connecting students to helpful resources, and being a liaison between students and professors. In addition, innovation coaches may help professors modify course curriculum to allow for more creativity and innovation in classes. Innovation coaches are not TAs, though they work in the classroom much like TAs. Instead of being an aid to professors, innovation coaches are present to help students specifically. They are able to answer questions and translate information from professor to student and vice versa. In many cases, innovation coaches are able to help empower other students to see that they can make their ideas a reality.</span></span><br /> <br /> == How Meenu Dit It ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c0-328f-f1c3-af56e65ced35"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2013, the University of Maryland took the time to create an innovation center of their own, the </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/ <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center</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;">, to benefit their proud Diamondback community. Unfortunately, the students didn’t know what it would be used for and assumed that it was just another building dedicated as a campus incubator or site for seed-funding. Yet fortunately, Meenu was not only a Fellow but a member of UMD’s student government, meaning that she was both tasked with aiding in the designing of the center and was led with her passion for higher education and the need to revolutionize the student curriculum. Her first actions along with 19 other students and a mentor (who specialized in human centered innovation), were to implement the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process.</span></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the top methods that lead the transformation of ideation into reality - used by many and included in the UIF training, this process is constructed by 3 simple elements of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">identification</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /> <br /> [[File:DesignProcChart.png|center|DesignProcChart.png]]<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first phase is one of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pinpointing the opportunities that are in need by the concerned subjects and that can be provided by that which is being designed</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu and her peers attended to her campus, making sure to interview students of all backgrounds, majors and perspectives, questioned what needed to be answered most: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What do you feel is missing from campus? What do you think the new innovation center should provide?</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What they found was that many students lacked and wished for the opportunity to be creative in their courses and wanted to gain credit for influential projects outside of class, especially those outside majors that were </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deemed innovative</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;">. When asked about what the most surprising element was in regards to this entire process, Meenu stated that “when I asked a peer named Maya, ‘If you had an idea what would you do with it?’ she stated that she would, ‘lament the future nonexistence of that idea’ and I couldn’t believe it. It was the saddest thing to hear such a successful student feel unempowered. To hear from students that didn’t know if I&E was for them was eye opening.” Clearly the problem had been identified; the need for an element that promoted and supported creative thought needed to be formed.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The team immediately took their findings back to the center’s administrative board to implement the second phase: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation of the idea/solution</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the problem is defined such information has to be used to then guide the solution</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;">. That not only includes designing something that tends to certain necessities but the production of the resources needed to implement the solutions as well.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With UDM’s student government and the center’s administration board having direct access to funding and materials, Meenu’s team presented their findings and initial ideas, highlighting their peers concerns regarding their creative confidence and competence, in order to ultimately collaborate on what their new innovation center could provide and find what was needed in order to do so.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together they finalized the goal to introduce both innovation and entrepreneurship to UDM’s students by working with faculty to reshape their curriculum. Which would be done by giving their students the ability to take classes that are project based, making sure to transcend any normative </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">book-report-esque</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;">research tendencies, by embedding the very same designing thinking process throughout the DNA of their courses. Together, the idea of allowing their students to be mentored by innovative coaches was born.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That collaboration successfully led to the final </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization </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;">element of the design process. Such a phase is made up of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">continually producing great prototypes and testing</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;">. For the team, that meant putting their resources (money, faculty, departments) to use in producing their idea of restructuring their courses and being able to consistently reflect on their progress. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To innovate their innovation!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having produced UDM’s fourth cohort, Meenu and her team have gone through noticing that students respond better with peers as their coaches than faculty. Carefully determining how the students that were to become peer innovative coaches (or PICs) were to be compensated and figuring out methods of PIC training and key timelines. All by actively being a part of the process and reflecting throughout the PIC experience. Today, Meenu looks forward to expanding the program and “getting PICs integrated more into helping the faculty with forming the projects” in order to aid their </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on-the-ground</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;">perspective.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, the University of Maryland has an extremely admirable two-semester-long training that students take in order to understand the design thinking process, take on the mindsets that are conducive to innovation, and see that in order to truly be able to be influential a peer innovation coach must be a coach (an individual who guides and works alongside students) rather than an advisor (an individual that just instructs and solely helps the faculty). The result leads to a vast amount of students gaining creative competence from their peers and now knowing what to do with ideas that could impact their communities and eventually the world!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Here’s their </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PIC-Role-Description-and-Application-1.pdf <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PIC application</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!)</span><br /> <br /> [[File:PeerInnApp1.png|thumb|left|450px|PeerInnApp1.png]] [[File:PeerInnApp2.png|thumb|right|450px|PeerInnApp2.png]]<br /> <br /> == Outcomes of the Project ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-a925a71d-7fbb-52d4-1d0a-e65ec1e5d4fa"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu came to the realization through the program that there were so many students that didn’t believe “entrepreneurship was for them” or that they had any agency of creating change. This appalled her and thus created a goal for the program to empower these students and give them the confidence and preparation they needed to realize their goals and aspirations. She found that many students shifted their mentalities after being involved in that some were able to realize their love for innovation and entrepreneurship. They wanted to ensure that students were the main thinkers and designers on projects, and through these hands on experiences, they could realize their true potentials. Through this program, Meenu has expressed witnessing students, through reading their written reflections, both accomplish their goals and feel this sense of empowerment they need as they learn in their individual ways. Meenu, to this day, continues to work for the Peer Innovation Coaching program and tells us that it continues to adapt as the program grows and they discover the different ways in which people learn best. She advises us all that in our own ventures as UIF trainees that we should definitely be open to listening and learning from each other. With this in mind, we as fellows will be able to make the best out of our experiences and take away beneficial ideas in order to better our own schools through learning from others. She finally reminds us all that peer coaching can be utilized through any project and every school should try it.</span></span><br /> <div><br/></div></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Resource:How_to_Establish_Innovation_Coaching&diff=46118 Resource:How to Establish Innovation Coaching 2017-01-08T20:25:22Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Before we start to explain this topic, let’s introduce the fellow who helped start it all.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">..</span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7693-47b1-f326-814d22682618"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Meenu Singh began as a University Innovation Fellow in 2014 as a student of Civil Engineering and Philosophy at the[[File:ND72371.JPG|thumb|ND72371.JPG]] University of Maryland. As a fellow, she learned about innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. After her training, Meenu was able to apply these concepts to her own campus when she found that her peers were unable to make their own ideas come to fruition despite their education. By helping her peers, Meenu was able to find passion in innovation coaching, leading her to her current job today, working as an Innovation Specialist at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Following, you will find a how to guide on creating an innovation coaching program much like Meenu’s at the University of Maryland.</span></span><br /> <br /> == Why do we need innovation coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7694-8a62-feba-19d5401d36cc"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In many cases, students may have great ideas but do not know how to make them happen. Because of this lack of empowerment, Meenu Singh helped create a program at the University of Maryland called innovation coaching to help empower students to make their ideas come to life. By showing students how to be more creative and innovative as well as by connecting them to resources and people that can help them in the classroom, innovation coaches encourage all students’ ideas and essentially become a guide or mentor to show other students that they hold the power in their ideas.</span></span><br /> <br /> == What is innovation coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7695-26e2-3d6d-a0ce4133e776"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation coaching is a peer-to-peer program that allows students to coach or mentor other students at their university. These coaches help foster innovation in other students by answering any questions students may have, encouraging students in their ideas and projects, connecting students to helpful resources, and being a liaison between students and professors. In addition, innovation coaches may help professors modify course curriculum to allow for more creativity and innovation in classes. Innovation coaches are not TAs, though they work in the classroom much like TAs. Instead of being an aid to professors, innovation coaches are present to help students specifically. They are able to answer questions and translate information from professor to student and vice versa. In many cases, innovation coaches are able to help empower other students to see that they can make their ideas a reality.</span></span><br /> <br /> == How Meenu Dit It ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c0-328f-f1c3-af56e65ced35"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2013, the University of Maryland took the time to create an innovation center of their own, the </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/ <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center</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;">, to benefit their proud Diamondback community. Unfortunately, the students didn’t know what it would be used for and assumed that it was just another building dedicated as a campus incubator or site for seed-funding. Yet fortunately, Meenu was not only a Fellow but a member of UMD’s student government, meaning that she was both tasked with aiding in the designing of the center and was led with her passion for higher education and the need to revolutionize the student curriculum. Her first actions along with 19 other students and a mentor (who specialized in human centered innovation), were to implement the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process.</span></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the top methods that lead the transformation of ideation into reality - used by many and included in the UIF training, this process is constructed by 3 simple elements of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">identification</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /> <br /> [[File:DesignProcChart.png|center|DesignProcChart.png]]<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first phase is one of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pinpointing the opportunities that are in need by the concerned subjects and that can be provided by that which is being designed</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu and her peers attended to her campus, making sure to interview students of all backgrounds, majors and perspectives, questioned what needed to be answered most: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What do you feel is missing from campus? What do you think the new innovation center should provide?</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What they found was that many students lacked and wished for the opportunity to be creative in their courses and wanted to gain credit for influential projects outside of class, especially those outside majors that were </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deemed innovative</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;">. When asked about what the most surprising element was in regards to this entire process, Meenu stated that “when I asked a peer named Maya, ‘If you had an idea what would you do with it?’ she stated that she would, ‘lament the future nonexistence of that idea’ and I couldn’t believe it. It was the saddest thing to hear such a successful student feel unempowered. To hear from students that didn’t know if I&E was for them was eye opening.” Clearly the problem had been identified; the need for an element that promoted and supported creative thought needed to be formed.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The team immediately took their findings back to the center’s administrative board to implement the second phase: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation of the idea/solution</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the problem is defined such information has to be used to then guide the solution</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;">. That not only includes designing something that tends to certain necessities but the production of the resources needed to implement the solutions as well.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With UDM’s student government and the center’s administration board having direct access to funding and materials, Meenu’s team presented their findings and initial ideas, highlighting their peers concerns regarding their creative confidence and competence, in order to ultimately collaborate on what their new innovation center could provide and find what was needed in order to do so.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together they finalized the goal to introduce both innovation and entrepreneurship to UDM’s students by working with faculty to reshape their curriculum. Which would be done by giving their students the ability to take classes that are project based, making sure to transcend any normative </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">book-report-esque</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;">research tendencies, by embedding the very same designing thinking process throughout the DNA of their courses. Together, the idea of allowing their students to be mentored by innovative coaches was born.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That collaboration successfully led to the final </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization </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;">element of the design process. Such a phase is made up of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">continually producing great prototypes and testing</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;">. For the team, that meant putting their resources (money, faculty, departments) to use in producing their idea of restructuring their courses and being able to consistently reflect on their progress. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To innovate their innovation!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having produced UDM’s fourth cohort, Meenu and her team have gone through noticing that students respond better with peers as their coaches than faculty. Carefully determining how the students that were to become peer innovative coaches (or PICs) were to be compensated and figuring out methods of PIC training and key timelines. All by actively being a part of the process and reflecting throughout the PIC experience. Today, Meenu looks forward to expanding the program and “getting PICs integrated more into helping the faculty with forming the projects” in order to aid their </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on-the-ground</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;">perspective.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, the University of Maryland has an extremely admirable two-semester-long training that students take in order to understand the design thinking process, take on the mindsets that are conducive to innovation, and see that in order to truly be able to be influential a peer innovation coach must be a coach (an individual who guides and works alongside students) rather than an advisor (an individual that just instructs and solely helps the faculty). The result leads to a vast amount of students gaining creative competence from their peers and now knowing what to do with ideas that could impact their communities and eventually the world!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Here’s their </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PIC-Role-Description-and-Application-1.pdf <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PIC application</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!)</span><br /> <br /> [[File:PeerInnApp1.png|thumb|left|450px|PeerInnApp1.png]] [[File:PeerInnApp2.png|thumb|right|450px|PeerInnApp2.png]]<br /> <br /> == Outcomes of the Project ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-a925a71d-7fbb-52d4-1d0a-e65ec1e5d4fa"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu came to the realization through the program that there were so many students that didn’t believe “entrepreneurship was for them” or that they had any agency of creating change. This appalled her and thus created a goal for the program to empower these students and give them the confidence and preparation they needed to realize their goals and aspirations. She found that many students shifted their mentalities after being involved in that some were able to realize their love for innovation and entrepreneurship. They wanted to ensure that students were the main thinkers and designers on projects, and through these hands on experiences, they could realize their true potentials. Through this program, Meenu has expressed witnessing students, through reading their written reflections, both accomplish their goals and feel this sense of empowerment they need as they learn in their individual ways. Meenu, to this day, continues to work for the Peer Innovation Coaching program and tells us that it continues to adapt as the program grows and they discover the different ways in which people learn best. She advises us all that in our own ventures as UIF trainees that we should definitely be open to listening and learning from each other. With this in mind, we as fellows will be able to make the best out of our experiences and take away beneficial ideas in order to better our own schools through learning from others. She finally reminds us all that peer coaching can be utilized through any project and every school should try it.</span></span><br /> <div><br/></div></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Resource:How_to_Establish_Innovation_Coaching&diff=46117 Resource:How to Establish Innovation Coaching 2017-01-08T20:21:54Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Before we start to explain this topic, let’s introduce the fellow who helped start it all.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">..</span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7693-47b1-f326-814d22682618"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Meenu Singh began as a University Innovation Fellow in 2014 as a student of Civil Engineering and Philosophy at the[[File:ND72371.JPG|thumb]] University of Maryland. As a fellow, she learned about innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. After her training, Meenu was able to apply these concepts to her own campus when she found that her peers were unable to make their own ideas come to fruition despite their education. By helping her peers, Meenu was able to find passion in innovation coaching, leading her to her current job today, working as an Innovation Specialist at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Following, you will find a how to guide on creating an innovation coaching program much like Meenu’s at the University of Maryland.</span></span><br /> <br /> == Why do we need innovation coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7694-8a62-feba-19d5401d36cc"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In many cases, students may have great ideas but do not know how to make them happen. Because of this lack of empowerment, Meenu Singh helped create a program at the University of Maryland called innovation coaching to help empower students to make their ideas come to life. By showing students how to be more creative and innovative as well as by connecting them to resources and people that can help them in the classroom, innovation coaches encourage all students’ ideas and essentially become a guide or mentor to show other students that they hold the power in their ideas.</span></span><br /> <br /> == What is innovation coaching? ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-cd69de4f-7695-26e2-3d6d-a0ce4133e776"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation coaching is a peer-to-peer program that allows students to coach or mentor other students at their university. These coaches help foster innovation in other students by answering any questions students may have, encouraging students in their ideas and projects, connecting students to helpful resources, and being a liaison between students and professors. In addition, innovation coaches may help professors modify course curriculum to allow for more creativity and innovation in classes. Innovation coaches are not TAs, though they work in the classroom much like TAs. Instead of being an aid to professors, innovation coaches are present to help students specifically. They are able to answer questions and translate information from professor to student and vice versa. In many cases, innovation coaches are able to help empower other students to see that they can make their ideas a reality.</span></span><br /> <br /> == How Meenu Dit It ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c0-328f-f1c3-af56e65ced35"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2013, the University of Maryland took the time to create an innovation center of their own, the </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/ <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center</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;">, to benefit their proud Diamondback community. Unfortunately, the students didn’t know what it would be used for and assumed that it was just another building dedicated as a campus incubator or site for seed-funding. Yet fortunately, Meenu was not only a Fellow but a member of UMD’s student government, meaning that she was both tasked with aiding in the designing of the center and was led with her passion for higher education and the need to revolutionize the student curriculum. Her first actions along with 19 other students and a mentor (who specialized in human centered innovation), were to implement the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process.</span></span><br /> <br /> == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Thinking Process</span> ==<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the top methods that lead the transformation of ideation into reality - used by many and included in the UIF training, this process is constructed by 3 simple elements of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">identification</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /> <br /> [[File:DesignProcChart.png|center|DesignProcChart.png]]<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first phase is one of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pinpointing the opportunities that are in need by the concerned subjects and that can be provided by that which is being designed</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu and her peers attended to her campus, making sure to interview students of all backgrounds, majors and perspectives, questioned what needed to be answered most: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What do you feel is missing from campus? What do you think the new innovation center should provide?</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What they found was that many students lacked and wished for the opportunity to be creative in their courses and wanted to gain credit for influential projects outside of class, especially those outside majors that were </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deemed innovative</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;">. When asked about what the most surprising element was in regards to this entire process, Meenu stated that “when I asked a peer named Maya, ‘If you had an idea what would you do with it?’ she stated that she would, ‘lament the future nonexistence of that idea’ and I couldn’t believe it. It was the saddest thing to hear such a successful student feel unempowered. To hear from students that didn’t know if I&E was for them was eye opening.” Clearly the problem had been identified; the need for an element that promoted and supported creative thought needed to be formed.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The team immediately took their findings back to the center’s administrative board to implement the second phase: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generation of the idea/solution</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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the problem is defined such information has to be used to then guide the solution</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;">. That not only includes designing something that tends to certain necessities but the production of the resources needed to implement the solutions as well.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With UDM’s student government and the center’s administration board having direct access to funding and materials, Meenu’s team presented their findings and initial ideas, highlighting their peers concerns regarding their creative confidence and competence, in order to ultimately collaborate on what their new innovation center could provide and find what was needed in order to do so.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together they finalized the goal to introduce both innovation and entrepreneurship to UDM’s students by working with faculty to reshape their curriculum. Which would be done by giving their students the ability to take classes that are project based, making sure to transcend any normative </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">book-report-esque</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;">research tendencies, by embedding the very same designing thinking process throughout the DNA of their courses. Together, the idea of allowing their students to be mentored by innovative coaches was born.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That collaboration successfully led to the final </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realization </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;">element of the design process. Such a phase is made up of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">continually producing great prototypes and testing</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;">. For the team, that meant putting their resources (money, faculty, departments) to use in producing their idea of restructuring their courses and being able to consistently reflect on their progress. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To innovate their innovation!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having produced UDM’s fourth cohort, Meenu and her team have gone through noticing that students respond better with peers as their coaches than faculty. Carefully determining how the students that were to become peer innovative coaches (or PICs) were to be compensated and figuring out methods of PIC training and key timelines. All by actively being a part of the process and reflecting throughout the PIC experience. Today, Meenu looks forward to expanding the program and “getting PICs integrated more into helping the faculty with forming the projects” in order to aid their </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on-the-ground</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;">perspective.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f532e36-76c1-7468-12b3-38aeed1dc5a0"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, the University of Maryland has an extremely admirable two-semester-long training that students take in order to understand the design thinking process, take on the mindsets that are conducive to innovation, and see that in order to truly be able to be influential a peer innovation coach must be a coach (an individual who guides and works alongside students) rather than an advisor (an individual that just instructs and solely helps the faculty). The result leads to a vast amount of students gaining creative competence from their peers and now knowing what to do with ideas that could impact their communities and eventually the world!</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Here’s their </span>[http://innovation.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PIC-Role-Description-and-Application-1.pdf <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PIC application</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!)</span><br /> <br /> [[File:PeerInnApp1.png|thumb|left|450px]] [[File:PeerInnApp2.png|thumb|right|450px]]<br /> <br /> == Outcomes of the Project ==<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-a925a71d-7fbb-52d4-1d0a-e65ec1e5d4fa"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenu came to the realization through the program that there were so many students that didn’t believe “entrepreneurship was for them” or that they had any agency of creating change. This appalled her and thus created a goal for the program to empower these students and give them the confidence and preparation they needed to realize their goals and aspirations. She found that many students shifted their mentalities after being involved in that some were able to realize their love for innovation and entrepreneurship. They wanted to ensure that students were the main thinkers and designers on projects, and through these hands on experiences, they could realize their true potentials. Through this program, Meenu has expressed witnessing students, through reading their written reflections, both accomplish their goals and feel this sense of empowerment they need as they learn in their individual ways. Meenu, to this day, continues to work for the Peer Innovation Coaching program and tells us that it continues to adapt as the program grows and they discover the different ways in which people learn best. She advises us all that in our own ventures as UIF trainees that we should definitely be open to listening and learning from each other. With this in mind, we as fellows will be able to make the best out of our experiences and take away beneficial ideas in order to better our own schools through learning from others. She finally reminds us all that peer coaching can be utilized through any project and every school should try it.</span></span><br /> <div><br/></div></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Briana_Almonte&diff=44742 Fellow:Briana Almonte 2017-01-06T01:25:39Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Briana Almonte is a University Innovation Fellow and a freshman at Binghamton University. She is majoring [[File:Briana Almonte.jpeg|thumb|Briana Almonte.jpeg]]in Linguistics and aspires to become a Speech-Language Pathologist. Along with this, she considers minoring in business management in hopes to gain necessary skills in order to open her own practice someday. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Briana chose to attend Binghamton University after graduating from Uncommon Charter High School in 2016. Through her admission she joined the Entrepreneurship Learning Community on her campus and exposed to the UIF program by some of her mentors.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With her new involvement in the university’s ELC, she has worked with other peers as well as mentors in starting her own entrepreneurial ventures and learning from the journeys of others in the process. &nbsp;She firmly believes in learning entrepreneurial skills and applying them in all concentrations in order to continue bettering our schools and education as a whole. She hopes to work in the office of entrepreneurship and continue her involvement with the learning community on campus.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with her interest in entrepreneurship, she has a vast love and passion for communication and her career path in general. She also simply enjoys the arts like singing, dancing ,and acting- all performance activities that help her with being open to learning and teaching different things.</span></span><br /> <br /> [[Category: Student Contributors]]</div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Briana_Almonte&diff=44741 Fellow:Briana Almonte 2017-01-06T01:24:39Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Briana Almonte is a University Innovation Fellow and a freshman at Binghamton University. She is majoring [[File:Briana Almonte.jpeg|thumb]]in Linguistics and aspires to become a Speech-Language Pathologist. Along with this, she considers minoring in business management in hopes to gain necessary skills in order to open her own practice someday. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Briana chose to attend Binghamton University after graduating from Uncommon Charter High School in 2016. Through her admission she joined the Entrepreneurship Learning Community on her campus and exposed to the UIF program by some of her mentors.</span></span><br /> <br /> <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><br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With her new involvement in the university’s ELC, she has worked with other peers as well as mentors in starting her own entrepreneurial ventures and learning from the journeys of others in the process. &nbsp;She firmly believes in learning entrepreneurial skills and applying them in all concentrations in order to continue bettering our schools and education as a whole. She hopes to work in the office of entrepreneurship and continue her involvement with the learning community on campus.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with her interest in entrepreneurship, she has a vast love and passion for communication and her career path in general. She also simply enjoys the arts like singing, dancing ,and acting- all performance activities that help her with being open to learning and teaching different things.</span></span><br /> <br /> [[Category:Student Contributers|Student_Contributers]]</div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Briana_Almonte&diff=44726 Fellow:Briana Almonte 2017-01-06T01:15:41Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Briana Almonte is a University Innovation Fellow and a freshman at Binghamton University. She is majoring [[File:Briana Almonte.jpeg|thumb|Briana Almonte.jpeg]]in Linguistics and aspires to become a Speech-Language Pathologist. Along with this, she considers minoring in business management in hopes to gain necessary skills in order to open her own practice someday. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Briana chose to attend Binghamton University after graduating from Uncommon Charter High School in 2016. Through her admission she joined the Entrepreneurship Learning Community on her campus and exposed to the UIF program by some of her mentors.</span></span><br /> <br /> [[Category:Student Contributers]]<br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With her new involvement in the university’s ELC, she has worked with other peers as well as mentors in starting her own entrepreneurial ventures and learning from the journeys of others in the process. &nbsp;She firmly believes in learning entrepreneurial skills and applying them in all concentrations in order to continue bettering our schools and education as a whole. She hopes to work in the office of entrepreneurship and continue her involvement with the learning community on campus.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with her interest in entrepreneurship, she has a vast love and passion for communication and her career path in general. She also simply enjoys the arts like singing, dancing ,and acting- all performance activities that help her with being open to learning and teaching different things.</span></span></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Briana_Almonte&diff=44723 Fellow:Briana Almonte 2017-01-06T01:14:38Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Briana Almonte is a University Innovation Fellow and a freshman at Binghamton University. She is majoring [[File:Briana Almonte.jpeg|thumb]]in Linguistics and aspires to become a Speech-Language Pathologist. Along with this, she considers minoring in business management in hopes to gain necessary skills in order to open her own practice someday. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Briana chose to attend Binghamton University after graduating from Uncommon Charter High School in 2016. Through her admission she joined the Entrepreneurship Learning Community on her campus and exposed to the UIF program by some of her mentors.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With her new involvement in the university’s ELC, she has worked with other peers as well as mentors in starting her own entrepreneurial ventures and learning from the journeys of others in the process. &nbsp;She firmly believes in learning entrepreneurial skills and applying them in all concentrations in order to continue bettering our schools and education as a whole. She hopes to work in the office of entrepreneurship and continue her involvement with the learning community on campus.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with her interest in entrepreneurship, she has a vast love and passion for communication and her career path in general. She also simply enjoys the arts like singing, dancing ,and acting- all performance activities that help her with being open to learning and teaching different things.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">&#x5B;&#x5B;Category:Student Contributers&#x5D;&#x5D;</span></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Briana_Almonte&diff=44722 Fellow:Briana Almonte 2017-01-06T01:14:15Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Briana Almonte is a University Innovation Fellow and a freshman at Binghamton University. She is majoring [[File:Briana Almonte.jpeg|thumb|Briana Almonte.jpeg]]in Linguistics and aspires to become a Speech-Language Pathologist. Along with this, she considers minoring in business management in hopes to gain necessary skills in order to open her own practice someday. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Briana chose to attend Binghamton University after graduating from Uncommon Charter High School in 2016. Through her admission she joined the Entrepreneurship Learning Community on her campus and exposed to the UIF program by some of her mentors.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With her new involvement in the university’s ELC, she has worked with other peers as well as mentors in starting her own entrepreneurial ventures and learning from the journeys of others in the process. &nbsp;She firmly believes in learning entrepreneurial skills and applying them in all concentrations in order to continue bettering our schools and education as a whole. She hopes to work in the office of entrepreneurship and continue her involvement with the learning community on campus.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with her interest in entrepreneurship, she has a vast love and passion for communication and her career path in general. She also simply enjoys the arts like singing, dancing ,and acting- all performance activities that help her with being open to learning and teaching different things.</span></span><br /> <br /> <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><br /> <br /> <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="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">&#x5B;&#x5B; Category:Student Contributers&#x5D;&#x5D;</span></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Briana_Almonte&diff=44720 Fellow:Briana Almonte 2017-01-06T01:12:51Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: Created page with "<span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; v..."</p> <hr /> <div><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Briana Almonte is a University Innovation Fellow and a freshman at Binghamton University. She is majoring [[File:Briana Almonte.jpeg|thumb]]in Linguistics and aspires to become a Speech-Language Pathologist. Along with this, she considers minoring in business management in hopes to gain necessary skills in order to open her own practice someday. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Briana chose to attend Binghamton University after graduating from Uncommon Charter High School in 2016. Through her admission she joined the Entrepreneurship Learning Community on her campus and exposed to the UIF program by some of her mentors.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With her new involvement in the university’s ELC, she has worked with other peers as well as mentors in starting her own entrepreneurial ventures and learning from the journeys of others in the process. &nbsp;She firmly believes in learning entrepreneurial skills and applying them in all concentrations in order to continue bettering our schools and education as a whole. She hopes to work in the office of entrepreneurship and continue her involvement with the learning community on campus.</span></span><br /> <br /> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-038e0a84-7155-6aed-7e7c-ee74e3b0a5a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with her interest in entrepreneurship, she has a vast love and passion for communication and her career path in general. She also simply enjoys the arts like singing, dancing ,and acting- all performance activities that help her with being open to learning and teaching different things.</span></span></div>

Brianaalmonte https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=File:Briana_Almonte.jpeg&diff=44715 File:Briana Almonte.jpeg 2017-01-06T01:11:10Z

<p>Brianaalmonte: </p> <hr /> <div></div>

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