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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jacob%20Larson Jacob Larson]<br />
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Syverson David Syverson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Denielle%20Danielson Denielle Danielson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ben%20Ferguson Benjamin Ferguson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Diedrich%20Harms Diedrich Harms]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Robert%20Kringler Robert Kringler]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jordan%20Brummond Jordan Brummond]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jacob%20Larson Jacob Larson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Drew%20Spooner Drew Spooner]<br />
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Syverson David Syverson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Denielle%20Danielson Denielle Danielson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ben%20Ferguson Benjamin Ferguson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Robert%20Kringler Robert Kringler]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jordan%20Brummond Jordan Brummond]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jacob%20Larson Jacob Larson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Drew%20Spooner Drew Spooner]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Dalman Andrew Dalman]<br />
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Syverson David Syverson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Denielle%20Danielson Denielle Danielson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ben%20Ferguson Benjamin Ferguson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Diedrich%20Harms Diedrich Harms]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Robert%20Kringler Robert Kringler]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jordan%20Brummond Jordan Brummond]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jacob%20Larson Jacob Larson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Drew%20Spooner Drew Spooner]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Dalman Andrew Dalman]</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:David_Syverson&diff=42001Fellow:David Syverson2016-10-23T23:57:02Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Syverson David Syverson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Denielle%20Danielson Denielle Danielson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ben%20Ferguson Benjamin Ferguson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Diedrich%20Harms Diedrich Harms]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Drew%20Spooner Drew Spooner]<br />
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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University Innovation Fellows<br />
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Fall 2016:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Samantha%20Schultz Samantha Schultz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Syverson David Syverson]<br />
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Spring 2016:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Denielle%20Danielson Denielle Danielson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ben%20Ferguson Benjamin Ferguson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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Fall 2015:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Diedrich%20Harms Diedrich Harms]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Robert%20Kringler Robert Kringler]<br />
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Fall 2014:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jordan%20Brummond Jordan Brummond]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jacob%20Larson Jacob Larson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Drew%20Spooner Drew Spooner]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Dalman Andrew Dalman]</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:David_Syverson&diff=41999Fellow:David Syverson2016-10-23T23:55:11Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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[[North Dakota State University|North Dakota State University]]<br />
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[[North Dakota State University Student Priorities|North Dakota State University Student Priorities]]<br />
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Fall 2016:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Samantha%20Schultz Samantha Schultz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Syverson David Syverson]<br />
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Spring 2016:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Denielle%20Danielson Denielle Danielson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ben%20Ferguson Benjamin Ferguson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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Fall 2015:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Diedrich%20Harms Diedrich Harms]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Robert%20Kringler Robert Kringler]<br />
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Fall 2014:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jordan%20Brummond Jordan Brummond]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jacob%20Larson Jacob Larson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Drew%20Spooner Drew Spooner]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Dalman Andrew Dalman]</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:North_Dakota_State_University_Student_Priorities&diff=41202Priorities:North Dakota State University Student Priorities2016-10-22T03:18:14Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Here at North Dakota State University, we are going to develop a community that lays the framework for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Although events, programs, and resources are needed for an entrepreneurial community to flourish, they are not the most important part of the process. The most important part is the community, and we feel the community has not been given enough attention.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Hammock Initiative (discontinued)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The best opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation mean nothing if people aren't involved. We feel that to create a community of entrepreneurs we have to first create a community where people can just be people. That is why one of our main priorities is to bring an organization to campus that will host events where all expectations to be innovative or have creative ideas are eliminated. It's called the Hammock Initiative, or Hi for short and its vision is simple.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">''We want&nbsp;to see people gathered together for the purpose of relaxing, enjoying each other’s company and, literally, hanging out. This vision may not sound audacious or ambitious, and that’s the point. It’s an opportunity for people to be, not do''. -&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">[http://hammockinitiative.tumblr.com/post/97170910339/whats-hammock-initiative <span style="color:#000000;">&lt;span class="s1"&gt;@HiFargo&lt;/span&gt;</span>]</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">By getting people together to hammock for the sake of just being, we believe natural conversation where ideas and innovation are born will start all on their own. And with how busy people are, I think we can all agree that some time set aside to relax is needed.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The Initiative has had a very successful year, holding several events in North Dakota, Minnesota, California, and Florida. It continues to grow with the work of UIF members. Unfortunatly, the project did not have a successful year in 2015, and was discontinued due to lack of participants.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Innovation Open House (Currrently in process)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Creating an event/ program that is simply an open house for people to show off what ideas they have both from the community as well as campus. This opportunity, would not be a competition, but rather a simple venue for anyone with an idea to display their work, regardless of stage. This would allow students to present ideas outside of a competition setting where they could "fail" and community members to see what parallels they are doing with research and development that students are already doing. A great way to create contacts and expand the network, but also the pen minds about what the NDSU Fargo region is capable of.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 UI Fresh (New Fall 2015)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">First year NDSU students are required to take a University 189 course which is essentially a welcome to college class, and for the most part seen as a joke. One challenge we have come up with is to use this opportunity to open the minds of fresh students before they can develop habit and get into their "groove".</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">UI Fresh is in the process of getting into the course work and doing design thinking activities with the students, thus giving them the ability to think creatively, introducing them to the opportunities on campus that they would either enjoy working in or use as a resource when need be. First hand design thinking activities allow them to see that Design thinking is a tactic they can apply in any field or in anyway.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">This is currently being implemented in 189 classes as stated above. The curriculum portion is still a work in progress. Our coninueing problems for this project are not having enough people to reach out to the first year NDSU students in their University 189 courses. We hope to expand and reach out to other classes as well when we have the manpower to do so. With this program we hope to eventually help students in all years and diciplines in Design thinking.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Revamped Innovation Challenge (Updated)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The innovation challenge is great and opens up many opportunities to the student body. However, it is heavily based on a business plan and requires the proposal to fit in a specific track that is Product, Service, Social, or Corn. Because of this, we are suggesting we rework the criteria for the challenge and look at ways we can get more students involved and promote or collaborate on other school functions such as the Clinton Global Initiative.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Because of the work of many of our UIF members, we have seen some encouraging changes in the Innovation Challenge program. First off a fourth track was added to Challenge, social impact, encouraging students to participate in social entrepreneurship. In addition a pitch competition has been added as well as a brainstorming workshop.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Clinton Global Initiative (Updated)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Furthering the Innovation Challenge by augmenting it with the Clinton Global Initiative is one of the methods to make it better. The CGI is more social based and will allow those who do not have a business plan to not only enter a innovation club but will give the chance of moving even farther on than just NDSU.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">One group was successfully chosen to participate and was very successful at the CGI meeting last spring. One UIF member was part of the winning team in the Hackathon. We are hoping to build upon this success this year.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 Professional Lecture Series&nbsp;</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU had recently begun to bring regional professionals and entrepreneurs onto campus on a monthly basis called, Career Conversations, and its attendance has been abysmal. The value in a system like this could be incredible for opening minds, exposing new trends in the business environment to students and also simply networking, yet very few students attend. The system is flawed but the idea is there. One new method would be to change venues base on the department or realm that the speaker is based around, and also changing the mentality. A one hour lecture over a student's lunch is not an ideal manner, for either the student or the professional, yet having it at the tail end of a small intense course would gain results.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">This process can open up doors for students and those in the business sector, by simply getting the conversation going, the fundamental element to connection. Bringing in speakers people know and or care about/ discussing topics people are intrigued about can further bridge the gap between the campus and community.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">3. Knock Down Barriers</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Engineering Wide Lab Access (Progressing)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Students need a work to develop their ideas. The college of Engineering has a number of labs with space, materials and equipment to further these ideas but they are not open to all NDSU students and even other Engineering students. The only way to get into many of the labs is to go in during business hours and be of that particular major. Allowing any Engineering student to access these labs would help provide a starter innovation space and show need for one in the future.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #1- Develop more connections between various engineering majors (Senior Design, ect) to encourage students not as far in the program to begin working in other labs from an earlier date'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Form bonds between all majors under the College of Engineering</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Team Leaders</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Univ 189 Professors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Academic Advisors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Senior Design Advisors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Convince the Dean of Engineering and department heads that it is beneficial to get outside of their specific major</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Form more interdisciplinary senior designs</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Develop strong ties between majors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #2 Open up Computer Labs for all majors'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Allow key card access to all engineering computer labs by all engineering students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Lab Instructors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">IT Department</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">UIF Students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Milestones</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Gain computer lab access</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #3 Open up Technical Labs for all majors'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Open technical labs like the IME, ME, EE, AG, and other labs so any Engineering major can enter them</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Team Leaders</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Lab Instructors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Department Heads</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">UIF Students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Allow students to work in labs during business hours (8-5)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Look into getting off hours lab space for weeknights and weekends for students to get into the current lab</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #4 Skill Accreditation'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description - There are hundreds of students on our campus that research and work on their own projects outside of the classroom. Although this is great for personal learning, this does not benefit the student when looking for a job or internship. The employer only sees what is on their resume or transcript. Maybe the student is an Industrial Engineer who is very skilled in machining. To a potential employer, they see that the student is an Industrial Engineer. There is no documented proof that this student is a skilled machinist. If a professor is willing to vouch for any student who, for example, is skilled in machining. Then the student should be giving the opportunity to prove to potential employers (on their transcript) that they are in fact skilled in machining.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Team Leaders: Andy Dalman, Kyle Stapleton</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Find potential professors who are interested in giving the certificates.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Talk with the academic office to have the certificates put onto transcripts.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Tweak the accreditation program to suit the students.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Collaborative Innovation Course (New Fall 2015)</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">One major Pitfall with North Dakota State University is the lack of cross discipline coursework. There are 0 programs that connect majors that will be dealing with each other every day in the professional world, this needs to be changed. Creating a course with an enrollment cap per section that does not discriminate on major, class or even prerequisites is the ideal way to do so. Having a course with a wide variety of majors and backgrounds that are required to unify and complete a task/solve a problem/ etc., can plant the seed of innovation and design thinking in every student. Instructors that have some background in innovation, would form the problem around the demographics in a way to open their minds and change it.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">As a student that needs a few credits to take care of an "Innovation Alliance 320" Course would be far more appealing than "Billiards 120"</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">4. Imagine the Future</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Critical Thinking Classes (Progressing)</span></span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #1: Hit the Ground Running- Student Driven Experience.'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: The sooner students realize that the faster they can get involved with the campus, potential employers, real world work and experience the more excited they will be about taking the bull by the horns to steer their desires in whichever way they want them to go. Many students dreaded the way their high school educations were conducted. In high school lots of people say, "When am I ever going to use this stuff?" Now is time! Unfortunately, many freshman students have no clue what they want to do with their lives, and others just need to follow the directions to the map they have made in their heads (minority of students). The catering to these "undecided" students is essential to change the mindset of what it is to experience college. (Not just going to parties) The basis of this tactic is to empower students to actively seek hands on skills in their choosen career path. This maybe in the form of jobs, volunteering, clubs, and other outgoing groups.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: UNIV 189 professors? Dorm RAs? People responsible for scheduling motivational speakers (Specifically for college students)? I placed question marks behind each of these leaders because this is just what comes to mind of people who would be able to aid in this tactic. Possibly more.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Support from potential team leaders.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Actually getting students to go to speakers, be active in clubs, take internships, and learn what they want to learn outside of the traditional classroom.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students pressure higher-ups of the university to cater to their educational wants.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">University and individual colleges alter curriculums.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Entire college culture is changed from "Partying" to "Let's do something for ourselves along with the world".</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #2''':&nbsp;'''Classroom Driven Experience'''&nbsp;(Science Student Perspective)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: Use critical thinking and problem solving educational tactics along with or after a traditional lecture class and lab is complete. Labs are where these problem solving strategies can be applied more. An additional lab course should be available that adheres to more of using what they learned in that lab and lecture in a more investigative/problem solving way. This critical thinking experience would come after the student has complete the previous course. The class would be structured around what I would say as mini-research experiments. The students would use previous knowledge to help guide themselves into theories and hypothesis of what they believe could be the answer to whatever they are working on. Then they would carry out experiments to tests these ideas. -A very rough outline on how the class would be structured.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: Jordan Brummond, "I have heard rumors of similar sounding classes that will be starting up soon in my department by - Janice Haggart. I also believe Dr. Angela Hodgson is in her second year of a similar class."</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Curriculum Assessments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Find evidence that students who take this class are more successful academically/professionally and provide it to the masses- Brings hype to the class.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Integrate into regular curriculum.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Faculty support from multiple departments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Development of similar courses in other departments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #3: Mentor Driven Experience'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">Description:</span>&nbsp;Having outside entrepreneurs, businesses, or research professors "take in" students as mentees/apprentices/interns. A good comparison would be like a "Big Brother, Big Sister" for students with drive and passion to get right out into the real world while they work on their degrees.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: TBD</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Small number of mentors ready to pave the way.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Incorporate into already existing career fair.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">More mentors view it as a recruitment tool to atrract the best and brightest students.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">"Career fair" specifically as the recruitment tool.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students rewarded for their work other than the experience.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Success stories as a recruitment tool for both students and new mentors.</span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Furthering I&E</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Further strategies for future development of I&E on NDSU campus include:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Acquire an Innovation Space (Progressing)</span></span></span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Providing students with a place 'with a sign on the door' designating it as purely a space for students to meet and hang out with innovative and entrepreneurial interests in mind will encourage and nourish the formation of ideas and student innovation teams/entrepreneurs, in no particular order. As rules can have a tendency to stifle innovation, the objective is to keep this space as free and open as possible, accessible to all majors and during as much of the day as is feasible.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">While a room with a whiteboard is enough to get us started, I would like to expand upon that as much as possible. I'm considering this a separate tactic as it involves going through different channels and asking for entirely different things from different people. The goal here is to network with as many higher-ups who support the movement as possible (many of whom have already been interviewed for the landscape canvas) and see what kind of extra equipment their department might be willing to lend. We're talking computers, Arduinos, soldering irons, scrap metal, hot glue guns.... anything not 'required' to run the I-space but would still contribute to its usefulness. More importantly, anything not nailed down! People resources are going in this tactic as well. The I-space will require a semi-regular pool of mentors, be they faculty, community leaders, or just motivate volunteers. The purpose of this group will be to offer more everyday advice and counsel than bringing in a speaker or holding an event.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px; line-height: 1.4;">Provide Legal and Financial Assistant to I&E Teams (Progressing)</span></span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">The author requests that you note the use of 'management' vs. 'protection.' Currently, there is little understanding amongst students that work they do that utilizes 'significant university resources' qualifies as university property. The native stance of the IP management system here is to&nbsp;</span>protect<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;all IP generated, not to&nbsp;</span>manage and distribute<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;it. We hope that, by working with the Tech Transfer Office and university higher-ups, a more transparent system can be developed... one that can be explained to students quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, the delivery system for getting the knowledge to students has to be structured in such a manner that it doesn't scare them off!&nbsp; Barring the ability to get the TTO more involved in proactively assisting with student IP, we at least hope to provide students with a seminar, guide, etc... on what exactly the relationship between them, their work, and the university actually is.</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">With this tactic, we're going to work closely with the NDSU research park and Tech Transfer Office to establish as best we can a formal step-by-step process for entreprenuers looking to start a business and/or license their own IP back from the university. Note that the point here is not to&nbsp;</span>constrain<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;but to&nbsp;</span>assist<span style="line-height: 1.4;">. The purpose of the formal system is to allow rails for the students to follow along their journey- right now there is nothing in place to assist students in the early or middle stages of planning, for example. Late stage business-founding can be handled by the Research Incubator... but how do you know to contact them? That is precisely what we are going to fix.&nbsp;</span>At the very least,<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;this tactic will produce a flow chart of steps, people, andprocesses that have been succesful in the past for starting businesses at NDSU.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 Drone Focus</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: DroneFocus is an annual event that brings together leaders in the drone industry from all acorss the country for an all-day conference. A recap of of last year's (2015) event is available at</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">[https://vimeo.com/133365221 <span style="color:#000000;">https://vimeo.com/133365221</span>]<span style="color:#000000;">. North Dakota is home to one of the leading Unmanned Arial System (UAS) hotspots in the nation. With industry leaders such as Botlink (</span>[https://botlink.com <span style="color:#000000;">https://botlink.com</span>]<span style="color:#000000;">) and facilities such as the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (</span>[http://www.npuasts.com <span style="color:#000000;">http://www.npuasts.com</span>]</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">), North Dakota holds the resources, technologies, and networking opportunity to experience the regional and national state of the UAS atmosphere. Guest speakers, pitch events, and networking opportunities will be just a few of the events available to attendees.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: Ben Ferguson</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Designed Team Application (Completed - 01/08/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Distributed a write-up and outline to partner schools (Completed - 02/01/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Student Applications for the Pitch Competitions (04/15/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
***<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">This event will take place on 06/01/2016</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Tactic #4 In House Entrepeneurship Program (New Fall 2015)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">NDSU Currently offers a Certificate of Entrepeneurship as part of a collabrative program with the University of North Dakota. This program, although very beneficial, has seen very little student enrollment, primarly due to a lack of advertising and confusion coming from the partnership with UND. NDSU must work to establish its own, in house, entrepeneurship program. This will have an enourmus effect on the level of entrepeneurship on campus and when partnered with existing resources on campus, will have a massive impact.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">I-CORP</span></span></span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I-CORP is a student organization&nbsp;that is set up to help students who are at a mid-level of entrepreneurship activities. The students who are at a crossroads of innovation meeting entrepreneurship and are looking to get their ideas out and recognized in a company aspect but are unsure where to start. Such topics covered will be speakers from outside companies, classes on legal and financial aspects of starting up a business.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Additionally there will be networking to encourage students to converse with one another. This is to inspire help become&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">entrepreneurial.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 I&E Whitepages (Progressing)</span></span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">There is a large number of organizations on and off campus that are beneficial to innovation and entrepreneurship. NDSU overhauled its organization database recently but it is not all-inclusive and the search button does not work like it should. The other issue is that it does not tie into the community. The Fargo/Moorhead area has a strong I&E culture but there is no easy way for students to search and see what is available.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Goal- Create a wiki-based White Page style repository of all innovative and entrepreneurial events on campus and in the community.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Method- Create a wiki page for the university organizations</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Method- Compile a list of current on campus activities and allow students to add or edit activities as needed.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= Related Links =<br />
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[[North Dakota State University]]<br />
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University Innovation Fellows<br />
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Fall 2016:<br />
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[[Samantha Schultz|Samantha Schultz]]<br />
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[[David Syverson|David Syverson]]<br />
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Spring 2016:<br />
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[[Denielle Danielson|Denielle Danielson]]<br />
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[[Ben Ferguson|Benjamin Ferguson]]<br />
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[[Kyle Stapleton|Kyle Stapleton]]<br />
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Fall 2015:<br />
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[[Diedrich Harms|Diedrich Harms]]<br />
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[[Robert Kringler|Robert Kringler]]<br />
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Fall 2014:<br />
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[[Jordan Brummond|Jordan Brummond]]<br />
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[[Jacob Larson|Jacob Larson]]<br />
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[[Drew Spooner|Drew Spooner]]<br />
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Fall 2013:<br />
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[[Andrew Dalman|Andrew Dalman]]<br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|n]]</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:North_Dakota_State_University&diff=41198School:North Dakota State University2016-10-22T03:16:05Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU's&nbsp;'''Innovation&nbsp;''''''Challenge'''&nbsp;competition is the university's most advertised effort for entrepreneurship and innovation. The 5-month annual program focuses on student innovation teams, culminating in a public exhibition and panel judging of ideas. Students form teams of their own volition and work on ideas wholly their own; the only faculty involvement is a required faculty mentor, the precise role of whom is up to the individual team. Seminars, brown-bag lunch presentations, and boot camps are peppered in through the duration of the program, allowing students to learn from industry and startup veterans alike. At the end of the judging week, a keynote speaker is brought in to network and speak to students. $27,000 is distributed amidst winning teams, to be spent however the students wish.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDUS University Innovation Corps is a student lead club that helps to connect students to the innovation that is on campus. The club provides a stimulating environment to encourage students to pursue innovation on campus, whether it be in the form of a competition, or helping make change on campus. This club allows UI Fellows to get connected with other students on campus who also want to help improve innovation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU and UND have a collaborative program to offer students of any major an ''''Entrepreneurship Certificate'''.' This certificate is earned upon completion of five 2 & 300 level entrepreneurship courses. The certificate is offered through the College of Business and is open to any major. There are also several scholarship opportunities available from the Larson Foundation to enroll in this course. &nbsp;In earning the certificate, students can expect to learn about intellectual property, management, marketing, accounting, design thinking, and venture capital- all with the twist of being specifically designed for providing students with the most important areas of those fields they'll need to thrive in a start-up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU is a "Student Focused, Land Grant, Research University". Students are provided opportunities to perform&nbsp;'''undergraduate research''', should they be proactive enough to seek out the correct resources. While this research is certainly innovative, the objective of much of the research is not explicitly to teach the students innovative or entrepreneurial thinking- it is to perform research and generate data. How much the students learn to be innovative themselves in these environments depends on the student in question. Efforts are also hampered by many departments closing off lab space to other majors. This is changing slowly and resources are expanding. For example, the library just obtained a new Makerbot 3-Dprinter available to all majors at the rate of $3 an hour. We are also working on opening up lab access across majors.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The&nbsp;'''Bison Microventure&nbsp;'''is a program that brings students from multiple disciplines- primarily Engineering and Biosciences but not exclusive of other majors- together to solve problems and develop a product. The group, structured into 5 separate teams of 2-3 students each, provides students the opportunity to lead and manage their own&nbsp;''de facto&nbsp;''mini-research teams, complete with all of the resource, expertise, and intellectual property responsibilities that come with it. BµV has been successful in generating multiple patent disclosures, numerous presentations at national events, and victories in local innovation competitions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU is fortunate enough to be located in a community with a strong innovative culture. There are a number of events such as TedX, Health Pitch, and a large number of events put on by Emerging Praire such as startup weekend, start up drinks, one million cups and many others.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Aside from tenure and contractual requirements, innovation and entrepreneurship is not, to the writer's knowledge, widely promoted to faculty. The writer wishes to note that there is a growing movement on campus within faculty and leadership that hopes to change the current mindset- a movement that will no doubt find immense value in the findings of the UI fellow program and the landscape canvas. This movement gained great strength with a series of demonstrations of support, vocal and in action, by the University Present and Provost. NDSU's innovation atmosphere, I-Challenge, and select outstanding research teams have recently been mentioned consistently in the president's 'State of the University' addresses.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Some faculty members are directly involved in startups at the NDSU Research & Technology park. These projects are not university driven- they are done on the faculty's own time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Faculty are encouraged to document and file all intellectual property they generate, some of which is forwarded to the TTO and processed.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">University Technology Transfer Function</span></span> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU maintains a Technology Transfer office through the&nbsp;'''NDSU Research Foundation'''. Through the Research Foundation, faculty staff and students may file invention disclosures. These disclosures are reviewed by staff and, if determined patentable, the foundation and inventors will move forward on patenting the device, idea, or innovation- it is of note that the NDSU TTO does not discriminate or target to a specific type of innovation or inventive idea. The TTO will then attempt to license the idea- revenue from this is split between the TTO, NDSU, the inventor's department, and the inventors themselves. No particular priority is given to staff or students, individual revenue share is based solely on contribution to the project. Inventors can expect to split ~30% of the total licensed revenue between themselves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">In the event the TTO rejects the idea, NDSU releases ownership of the intellectual property to the inventors who are free to file patents on their own and thus own full share.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU IP Policies are available<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>here:&nbsp;[https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf] &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The NDSU TTO, to the knowledge of the UI fellow penning this, has not made any particular student-aware effort to promote the development of intellectual property on campus. It is not yet as proactive as certain other programs around the country- the inventors are expected to come to the TTO, not the other way around.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">University-Industry Collaboration</span></span><br/> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">All engineering majors complete what is known as a ''''capstone''''<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>or senior design project. This project is commonly backed financially by a local industry presence in the aim of solving a particular problem. Students form small group teams and are given one-two semesters to prepare and present a solution to the problem as best as they can. The process is assisted by regular interaction (personal and digital) with the host company as well as reporting to the student's faculty capstone mentor. It is of note that while the program does not explicitly require an innovative solution to the given problem, the use of students to provide a new, fresh way of thinking is one of the value-added services of the program for the host company.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">Occasionally, students will form capstone groups with the intent to develop and market their own project. In this case, funding and resources will be limited only to donations and grants that the students and mentor can acquire from donor companies and grant programs- generally a tight budget. NDSU's engineering program is not structured to prepare students to start and run their own firms and thus, while not completely unheard of, this practice is fairly uncommon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">The College of Business offers a program known as ''''Student Consulting Teams'''.' These teams offer small business in particular the opportunity to receive the aid of students to assist and council those in their journey- the students, of course, receive experience and knowledge in return. Students are chosen by application and are not automatically assigned to a team. Instead, the student is contacted when a project that suits their experience, interest, and expertise becomes available. Through this method, assigning students with irrelevant knowledge or lack of interest can be mitigated. While this program is not explicitly innovative or entrepreneurial in nature, it does provide valuable assistance to those looking to engage in those activities in the form of expertise they may not otherwise possess.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts</span></span><br/> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">'''InnovateND''', put on by the North Dakota Department of Commerce, is the largest and most public program for assisting in economic development via startups and innovation- it says so right in the name. The purpose of InnovateND is to provide a full kit of assistance to an idea- planning, investing, market research, etc... all of this is<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>''assisted''<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and counseled by connections through InnovateND. It is, of course, still up to the entrepreneur to do the grunt work. In an effort to increase the utility and usefulness of the program, InnovateND recently made a key change to their program, shifting from a 'venture competition' to an educational and entrepreneurial experience.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Start-up Weekend''', a 72 hour event focused on rapid creation, maturation, and launching of business concepts. It targeted primarily at application/service development, as 'engineered' ideas generally require far more time and work to become market-viable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">The<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="st">'''Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation'''</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>focuses on the 50,000ft view of developing Fargo/Moorhead as a whole. While it may not get involved in nurturing any specific business, what it does do is work to provide a vibrant and growing environment ripe for business creation and expansion. While this may not sound quite as flashy to an entrepreneur-to-be, it is nonetheless extremely important to ensure startups have the ability to survive.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Funding and support&nbsp;'''is not bursting from the seams from the university directly for innovation but it is available in many areas in the community and state. Grants such as InnovateND are available and local places such as the<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>'''Fargo Startup House''', found at&nbsp;[http://www.fargostartuphouse.com/, offer http://www.fargostartuphouse.com/,&nbsp;offer]<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>a&nbsp;place where innovators can live for at least six months for free with the only stipulation being to work full time on their start up. The Fargo Startup House also offers memberships to CoCo, a collaborative working space that is partnered with Google for Entrepreneurs. CoCo can be found at:&nbsp;[http://cocomsp.com/locations/fargo/.&nbsp http://cocomsp.com/locations/fargo/.&amp;nbsp];</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Pratie Den'''&nbsp;Fargo's only open collaboration space. This second floor to a Chinese restaurant, venue, has been taking on the corner of two of the busiest streets in downtown Fargo. The region has been referred to as the miniature Silicone Valley and the inhabitants of the den are justifying that term. Simply opening space for professionals to work and bounce ideas off of each other has proven effective, it recently hit a membership milestone and has proven itself an asset to the Fargo Community.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Other</span></span> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Take-Away message''': NDSU has yet to get huge innovation momentum going, but the resources are there to make it happen. By focusing on building a community of people at NDSU first and connecting them with the Fargo Startup Community we will see everything start to fall in place.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= Landscape Canvas =<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Pm1ie5e6xDDB4qKJGZI7kJPH0MzPjF_fLC7bmCK85Us/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Pm1ie5e6xDDB4qKJGZI7kJPH0MzPjF_fLC7bmCK85Us/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14]<br />
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= Project Pitch Videos<br/> =<br />
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Fall 2015 Cohort - [[|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5XLLUjGeE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5XLLUjGeE&amp;feature=youtu.be]]]<br />
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Fall 2014 Cohort -[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Cmm6l5iUY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Cmm6l5iUY&feature=youtu.be]<br />
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= Related Links =<br />
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North Dakota State University<br />
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[[North Dakota State University Student Priorities]]<br />
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University Innovation Fellows<br />
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Fall 2016:<br />
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[[Samantha_Schultz|Samantha Schultz]]<br />
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[[David_Syverson|David Syverson]]<br />
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Spring 2016:<br />
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[[Denielle Danielson|Denielle Danielson]]<br />
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[[Ben Ferguson|Benjamin Ferguson]]<br />
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[[Kyle Stapleton|Kyle Stapleton]]<br />
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Fall 2015:<br />
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[[Diedrich Harms|Diedrich Harms]]<br />
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[[Robert Kringler|Robert Kringler]]<br />
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Fall 2014:<br />
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[[Jordan Brummond|Jordan Brummond]]<br />
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[[Jacob Larson|Jacob Larson]]<br />
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[[Drew Spooner|Drew Spooner]]<br />
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Fall 2013:<br />
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[[Andrew Dalman|Andrew Dalman]]<br />
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Information coming soon.<br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:David_Syverson&diff=41191Fellow:David Syverson2016-10-22T03:07:20Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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= Related Links =<br />
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[[North_Dakota_State_University|North Dakota State University]]<br />
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[[North_Dakota_State_University_Student_Priorities|North Dakota State University Student Priorities]]<br />
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University Innovation Fellows<br />
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Fall 2016:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Samantha%20Schultz Samantha Schultz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Syverson David Syverson]<br />
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Spring 2016:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Denielle%20Danielson Denielle Danielson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ben%20Ferguson Benjamin Ferguson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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Fall 2015:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Diedrich%20Harms Diedrich Harms]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Robert%20Kringler Robert Kringler]<br />
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Fall 2014:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jordan%20Brummond Jordan Brummond]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jacob%20Larson Jacob Larson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Drew%20Spooner Drew Spooner]<br />
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Fall 2013:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Dalman Andrew Dalman]<br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|n]]</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:David_Syverson&diff=41188Fellow:David Syverson2016-10-22T03:05:41Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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University Innovation Fellows<br />
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Fall 2016:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Samantha%20Schultz Samantha Schultz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Syverson David Syverson]<br />
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Spring 2016:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Denielle%20Danielson Denielle Danielson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ben%20Ferguson Benjamin Ferguson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Stapleton Kyle Stapleton]<br />
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Fall 2015:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Diedrich%20Harms Diedrich Harms]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Robert%20Kringler Robert Kringler]<br />
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Fall 2014:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jordan%20Brummond Jordan Brummond]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jacob%20Larson Jacob Larson]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Drew%20Spooner Drew Spooner]<br />
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Fall 2013:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Dalman Andrew Dalman]<br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|n]]</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:David_Syverson&diff=41184Fellow:David Syverson2016-10-22T03:03:47Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at North Dakota State University. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=File:David_Syverson_Profile_picture.jpeg&diff=41166File:David Syverson Profile picture.jpeg2016-10-22T02:46:05Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<div></div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:North_Dakota_State_University_Student_Priorities&diff=41158Priorities:North Dakota State University Student Priorities2016-10-22T02:34:24Z<p>David.t.syverson: </p>
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Here at North Dakota State University, we are going to develop a community that lays the framework for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Although events, programs, and resources are needed for an entrepreneurial community to flourish, they are not the most important part of the process. The most important part is the community, and we feel the community has not been given enough attention.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Hammock Initiative (discontinued)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The best opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation mean nothing if people aren't involved. We feel that to create a community of entrepreneurs we have to first create a community where people can just be people. That is why one of our main priorities is to bring an organization to campus that will host events where all expectations to be innovative or have creative ideas are eliminated. It's called the Hammock Initiative, or Hi for short and its vision is simple.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">''We want&nbsp;to see people gathered together for the purpose of relaxing, enjoying each other’s company and, literally, hanging out. This vision may not sound audacious or ambitious, and that’s the point. It’s an opportunity for people to be, not do''. -&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">[http://hammockinitiative.tumblr.com/post/97170910339/whats-hammock-initiative <span style="color:#000000;">&lt;span class="s1"&gt;@HiFargo&lt;/span&gt;</span>]</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">By getting people together to hammock for the sake of just being, we believe natural conversation where ideas and innovation are born will start all on their own. And with how busy people are, I think we can all agree that some time set aside to relax is needed.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The Initiative has had a very successful year, holding several events in North Dakota, Minnesota, California, and Florida. It continues to grow with the work of UIF members. Unfortunatly, the project did not have a successful year in 2015, and was discontinued due to lack of participants.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Innovation Open House (Currrently in process)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Creating an event/ program that is simply an open house for people to show off what ideas they have both from the community as well as campus. This opportunity, would not be a competition, but rather a simple venue for anyone with an idea to display their work, regardless of stage. This would allow students to present ideas outside of a competition setting where they could "fail" and community members to see what parallels they are doing with research and development that students are already doing. A great way to create contacts and expand the network, but also the pen minds about what the NDSU Fargo region is capable of.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 UI Fresh (New Fall 2015)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">First year NDSU students are required to take a University 189 course which is essentially a welcome to college class, and for the most part seen as a joke. One challenge we have come up with is to use this opportunity to open the minds of fresh students before they can develop habit and get into their "groove".</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">UI Fresh is in the process of getting into the course work and doing design thinking activities with the students, thus giving them the ability to think creatively, introducing them to the opportunities on campus that they would either enjoy working in or use as a resource when need be. First hand design thinking activities allow them to see that Design thinking is a tactic they can apply in any field or in anyway.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">This is currently being implemented in 189 classes as stated above. The curriculum portion is still a work in progress. Our coninueing problems for this project are not having enough people to reach out to the first year NDSU students in their University 189 courses. We hope to expand and reach out to other classes as well when we have the manpower to do so. With this program we hope to eventually help students in all years and diciplines in Design thinking.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Revamped Innovation Challenge (Updated)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The innovation challenge is great and opens up many opportunities to the student body. However, it is heavily based on a business plan and requires the proposal to fit in a specific track that is Product, Service, Social, or Corn. Because of this, we are suggesting we rework the criteria for the challenge and look at ways we can get more students involved and promote or collaborate on other school functions such as the Clinton Global Initiative.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Because of the work of many of our UIF members, we have seen some encouraging changes in the Innovation Challenge program. First off a fourth track was added to Challenge, social impact, encouraging students to participate in social entrepreneurship. In addition a pitch competition has been added as well as a brainstorming workshop.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Clinton Global Initiative (Updated)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Furthering the Innovation Challenge by augmenting it with the Clinton Global Initiative is one of the methods to make it better. The CGI is more social based and will allow those who do not have a business plan to not only enter a innovation club but will give the chance of moving even farther on than just NDSU.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">One group was successfully chosen to participate and was very successful at the CGI meeting last spring. One UIF member was part of the winning team in the Hackathon. We are hoping to build upon this success this year.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 Professional Lecture Series&nbsp;</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU had recently begun to bring regional professionals and entrepreneurs onto campus on a monthly basis called, Career Conversations, and its attendance has been abysmal. The value in a system like this could be incredible for opening minds, exposing new trends in the business environment to students and also simply networking, yet very few students attend. The system is flawed but the idea is there. One new method would be to change venues base on the department or realm that the speaker is based around, and also changing the mentality. A one hour lecture over a student's lunch is not an ideal manner, for either the student or the professional, yet having it at the tail end of a small intense course would gain results.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Engineering Wide Lab Access (Progressing)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Students need a work to develop their ideas. The college of Engineering has a number of labs with space, materials and equipment to further these ideas but they are not open to all NDSU students and even other Engineering students. The only way to get into many of the labs is to go in during business hours and be of that particular major. Allowing any Engineering student to access these labs would help provide a starter innovation space and show need for one in the future.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #1- Develop more connections between various engineering majors (Senior Design, ect) to encourage students not as far in the program to begin working in other labs from an earlier date'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Form bonds between all majors under the College of Engineering</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Convince the Dean of Engineering and department heads that it is beneficial to get outside of their specific major</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Form more interdisciplinary senior designs</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Develop strong ties between majors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #2 Open up Computer Labs for all majors'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Allow key card access to all engineering computer labs by all engineering students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Gain computer lab access</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #3 Open up Technical Labs for all majors'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Open technical labs like the IME, ME, EE, AG, and other labs so any Engineering major can enter them</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Lab Instructors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Department Heads</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">UIF Students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Allow students to work in labs during business hours (8-5)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Look into getting off hours lab space for weeknights and weekends for students to get into the current lab</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #4 Skill Accreditation'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description - There are hundreds of students on our campus that research and work on their own projects outside of the classroom. Although this is great for personal learning, this does not benefit the student when looking for a job or internship. The employer only sees what is on their resume or transcript. Maybe the student is an Industrial Engineer who is very skilled in machining. To a potential employer, they see that the student is an Industrial Engineer. There is no documented proof that this student is a skilled machinist. If a professor is willing to vouch for any student who, for example, is skilled in machining. Then the student should be giving the opportunity to prove to potential employers (on their transcript) that they are in fact skilled in machining.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Find potential professors who are interested in giving the certificates.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Talk with the academic office to have the certificates put onto transcripts.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Tweak the accreditation program to suit the students.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Collaborative Innovation Course (New Fall 2015)</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">One major Pitfall with North Dakota State University is the lack of cross discipline coursework. There are 0 programs that connect majors that will be dealing with each other every day in the professional world, this needs to be changed. Creating a course with an enrollment cap per section that does not discriminate on major, class or even prerequisites is the ideal way to do so. Having a course with a wide variety of majors and backgrounds that are required to unify and complete a task/solve a problem/ etc., can plant the seed of innovation and design thinking in every student. Instructors that have some background in innovation, would form the problem around the demographics in a way to open their minds and change it.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">As a student that needs a few credits to take care of an "Innovation Alliance 320" Course would be far more appealing than "Billiards 120"</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">4. Imagine the Future</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Critical Thinking Classes (Progressing)</span></span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #1: Hit the Ground Running- Student Driven Experience.'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: The sooner students realize that the faster they can get involved with the campus, potential employers, real world work and experience the more excited they will be about taking the bull by the horns to steer their desires in whichever way they want them to go. Many students dreaded the way their high school educations were conducted. In high school lots of people say, "When am I ever going to use this stuff?" Now is time! Unfortunately, many freshman students have no clue what they want to do with their lives, and others just need to follow the directions to the map they have made in their heads (minority of students). The catering to these "undecided" students is essential to change the mindset of what it is to experience college. (Not just going to parties) The basis of this tactic is to empower students to actively seek hands on skills in their choosen career path. This maybe in the form of jobs, volunteering, clubs, and other outgoing groups.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: UNIV 189 professors? Dorm RAs? People responsible for scheduling motivational speakers (Specifically for college students)? I placed question marks behind each of these leaders because this is just what comes to mind of people who would be able to aid in this tactic. Possibly more.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Support from potential team leaders.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Actually getting students to go to speakers, be active in clubs, take internships, and learn what they want to learn outside of the traditional classroom.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students pressure higher-ups of the university to cater to their educational wants.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">University and individual colleges alter curriculums.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Entire college culture is changed from "Partying" to "Let's do something for ourselves along with the world".</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #2''':&nbsp;'''Classroom Driven Experience'''&nbsp;(Science Student Perspective)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: Use critical thinking and problem solving educational tactics along with or after a traditional lecture class and lab is complete. Labs are where these problem solving strategies can be applied more. An additional lab course should be available that adheres to more of using what they learned in that lab and lecture in a more investigative/problem solving way. This critical thinking experience would come after the student has complete the previous course. The class would be structured around what I would say as mini-research experiments. The students would use previous knowledge to help guide themselves into theories and hypothesis of what they believe could be the answer to whatever they are working on. Then they would carry out experiments to tests these ideas. -A very rough outline on how the class would be structured.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: Jordan Brummond, "I have heard rumors of similar sounding classes that will be starting up soon in my department by - Janice Haggart. I also believe Dr. Angela Hodgson is in her second year of a similar class."</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Curriculum Assessments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Find evidence that students who take this class are more successful academically/professionally and provide it to the masses- Brings hype to the class.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Integrate into regular curriculum.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Faculty support from multiple departments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Development of similar courses in other departments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #3: Mentor Driven Experience'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">Description:</span>&nbsp;Having outside entrepreneurs, businesses, or research professors "take in" students as mentees/apprentices/interns. A good comparison would be like a "Big Brother, Big Sister" for students with drive and passion to get right out into the real world while they work on their degrees.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: TBD</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Small number of mentors ready to pave the way.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Incorporate into already existing career fair.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">More mentors view it as a recruitment tool to atrract the best and brightest students.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">"Career fair" specifically as the recruitment tool.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students rewarded for their work other than the experience.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Success stories as a recruitment tool for both students and new mentors.</span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Furthering I&E</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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=== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Acquire an Innovation Space (Progressing)</span></span></span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Providing students with a place 'with a sign on the door' designating it as purely a space for students to meet and hang out with innovative and entrepreneurial interests in mind will encourage and nourish the formation of ideas and student innovation teams/entrepreneurs, in no particular order. As rules can have a tendency to stifle innovation, the objective is to keep this space as free and open as possible, accessible to all majors and during as much of the day as is feasible.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">While a room with a whiteboard is enough to get us started, I would like to expand upon that as much as possible. I'm considering this a separate tactic as it involves going through different channels and asking for entirely different things from different people. The goal here is to network with as many higher-ups who support the movement as possible (many of whom have already been interviewed for the landscape canvas) and see what kind of extra equipment their department might be willing to lend. We're talking computers, Arduinos, soldering irons, scrap metal, hot glue guns.... anything not 'required' to run the I-space but would still contribute to its usefulness. More importantly, anything not nailed down! People resources are going in this tactic as well. The I-space will require a semi-regular pool of mentors, be they faculty, community leaders, or just motivate volunteers. The purpose of this group will be to offer more everyday advice and counsel than bringing in a speaker or holding an event.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">The author requests that you note the use of 'management' vs. 'protection.' Currently, there is little understanding amongst students that work they do that utilizes 'significant university resources' qualifies as university property. The native stance of the IP management system here is to&nbsp;</span>protect<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;all IP generated, not to&nbsp;</span>manage and distribute<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;it. We hope that, by working with the Tech Transfer Office and university higher-ups, a more transparent system can be developed... one that can be explained to students quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, the delivery system for getting the knowledge to students has to be structured in such a manner that it doesn't scare them off!&nbsp; Barring the ability to get the TTO more involved in proactively assisting with student IP, we at least hope to provide students with a seminar, guide, etc... on what exactly the relationship between them, their work, and the university actually is.</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">With this tactic, we're going to work closely with the NDSU research park and Tech Transfer Office to establish as best we can a formal step-by-step process for entreprenuers looking to start a business and/or license their own IP back from the university. Note that the point here is not to&nbsp;</span>constrain<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;but to&nbsp;</span>assist<span style="line-height: 1.4;">. The purpose of the formal system is to allow rails for the students to follow along their journey- right now there is nothing in place to assist students in the early or middle stages of planning, for example. Late stage business-founding can be handled by the Research Incubator... but how do you know to contact them? That is precisely what we are going to fix.&nbsp;</span>At the very least,<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;this tactic will produce a flow chart of steps, people, andprocesses that have been succesful in the past for starting businesses at NDSU.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 Drone Focus</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: DroneFocus is an annual event that brings together leaders in the drone industry from all acorss the country for an all-day conference. A recap of of last year's (2015) event is available at</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">[https://vimeo.com/133365221 <span style="color:#000000;">https://vimeo.com/133365221</span>]<span style="color:#000000;">. North Dakota is home to one of the leading Unmanned Arial System (UAS) hotspots in the nation. With industry leaders such as Botlink (</span>[https://botlink.com <span style="color:#000000;">https://botlink.com</span>]<span style="color:#000000;">) and facilities such as the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (</span>[http://www.npuasts.com <span style="color:#000000;">http://www.npuasts.com</span>]</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">), North Dakota holds the resources, technologies, and networking opportunity to experience the regional and national state of the UAS atmosphere. Guest speakers, pitch events, and networking opportunities will be just a few of the events available to attendees.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: Ben Ferguson</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Designed Team Application (Completed - 01/08/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Distributed a write-up and outline to partner schools (Completed - 02/01/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Student Applications for the Pitch Competitions (04/15/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
***<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">This event will take place on 06/01/2016</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">NDSU Currently offers a Certificate of Entrepeneurship as part of a collabrative program with the University of North Dakota. This program, although very beneficial, has seen very little student enrollment, primarly due to a lack of advertising and confusion coming from the partnership with UND. NDSU must work to establish its own, in house, entrepeneurship program. This will have an enourmus effect on the level of entrepeneurship on campus and when partnered with existing resources on campus, will have a massive impact.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I-CORP is a student organization&nbsp;that is set up to help students who are at a mid-level of entrepreneurship activities. The students who are at a crossroads of innovation meeting entrepreneurship and are looking to get their ideas out and recognized in a company aspect but are unsure where to start. Such topics covered will be speakers from outside companies, classes on legal and financial aspects of starting up a business.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Additionally there will be networking to encourage students to converse with one another. This is to inspire help become&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">entrepreneurial.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 I&E Whitepages (Progressing)</span></span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">There is a large number of organizations on and off campus that are beneficial to innovation and entrepreneurship. NDSU overhauled its organization database recently but it is not all-inclusive and the search button does not work like it should. The other issue is that it does not tie into the community. The Fargo/Moorhead area has a strong I&E culture but there is no easy way for students to search and see what is available.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Goal- Create a wiki-based White Page style repository of all innovative and entrepreneurial events on campus and in the community.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Method- Create a wiki page for the university organizations</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Method- Compile a list of current on campus activities and allow students to add or edit activities as needed.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Hammock Initiative (discontinued)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The best opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation mean nothing if people aren't involved. We feel that to create a community of entrepreneurs we have to first create a community where people can just be people. That is why one of our main priorities is to bring an organization to campus that will host events where all expectations to be innovative or have creative ideas are eliminated. It's called the Hammock Initiative, or Hi for short and its vision is simple.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">''We want&nbsp;to see people gathered together for the purpose of relaxing, enjoying each other’s company and, literally, hanging out. This vision may not sound audacious or ambitious, and that’s the point. It’s an opportunity for people to be, not do''. -&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">[http://hammockinitiative.tumblr.com/post/97170910339/whats-hammock-initiative <span style="color:#000000;">&lt;span class="s1"&gt;@HiFargo&lt;/span&gt;</span>]</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">By getting people together to hammock for the sake of just being, we believe natural conversation where ideas and innovation are born will start all on their own. And with how busy people are, I think we can all agree that some time set aside to relax is needed.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The Initiative has had a very successful year, holding several events in North Dakota, Minnesota, California, and Florida. It continues to grow with the work of UIF members. Unfortunatly, the project did not have a successful year in 2015, and was discontinued due to lack of participants.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Innovation Open House (Currrently in process)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Creating an event/ program that is simply an open house for people to show off what ideas they have both from the community as well as campus. This opportunity, would not be a competition, but rather a simple venue for anyone with an idea to display their work, regardless of stage. This would allow students to present ideas outside of a competition setting where they could "fail" and community members to see what parallels they are doing with research and development that students are already doing. A great way to create contacts and expand the network, but also the pen minds about what the NDSU Fargo region is capable of.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 UI Fresh (New Fall 2015)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">First year NDSU students are required to take a University 189 course which is essentially a welcome to college class, and for the most part seen as a joke. One challenge we have come up with is to use this opportunity to open the minds of fresh students before they can develop habit and get into their "groove".</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">UI Fresh is in the process of getting into the course work and doing design thinking activities with the students, thus giving them the ability to think creatively, introducing them to the opportunities on campus that they would either enjoy working in or use as a resource when need be. First hand design thinking activities allow them to see that Design thinking is a tactic they can apply in any field or in anyway.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">This is currently being implemented in 189 classes as stated above. The curriculum portion is still a work in progress. Our coninueing problems for this project are not having enough people to reach out to the first year NDSU students in their University 189 courses. We hope to expand and reach out to other classes as well when we have the manpower to do so. With this program we hope to eventually help students in all years and diciplines in Design thinking.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">2. Improve Existing Programs</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Revamped Innovation Challenge (Updated)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The innovation challenge is great and opens up many opportunities to the student body. However, it is heavily based on a business plan and requires the proposal to fit in a specific track that is Product, Service, Social, or Corn. Because of this, we are suggesting we rework the criteria for the challenge and look at ways we can get more students involved and promote or collaborate on other school functions such as the Clinton Global Initiative.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Because of the work of many of our UIF members, we have seen some encouraging changes in the Innovation Challenge program. First off a fourth track was added to Challenge, social impact, encouraging students to participate in social entrepreneurship. In addition a pitch competition has been added as well as a brainstorming workshop.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Clinton Global Initiative (Updated)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Furthering the Innovation Challenge by augmenting it with the Clinton Global Initiative is one of the methods to make it better. The CGI is more social based and will allow those who do not have a business plan to not only enter a innovation club but will give the chance of moving even farther on than just NDSU.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">One group was successfully chosen to participate and was very successful at the CGI meeting last spring. One UIF member was part of the winning team in the Hackathon. We are hoping to build upon this success this year.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 Professional Lecture Series&nbsp;</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">NDSU had recently begun to bring regional professionals and entrepreneurs onto campus on a monthly basis called, Career Conversations, and its attendance has been abysmal. The value in a system like this could be incredible for opening minds, exposing new trends in the business environment to students and also simply networking, yet very few students attend. The system is flawed but the idea is there. One new method would be to change venues base on the department or realm that the speaker is based around, and also changing the mentality. A one hour lecture over a student's lunch is not an ideal manner, for either the student or the professional, yet having it at the tail end of a small intense course would gain results.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">This process can open up doors for students and those in the business sector, by simply getting the conversation going, the fundamental element to connection. Bringing in speakers people know and or care about/ discussing topics people are intrigued about can further bridge the gap between the campus and community.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">3. Knock Down Barriers</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Engineering Wide Lab Access (Progressing)</span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Students need a work to develop their ideas. The college of Engineering has a number of labs with space, materials and equipment to further these ideas but they are not open to all NDSU students and even other Engineering students. The only way to get into many of the labs is to go in during business hours and be of that particular major. Allowing any Engineering student to access these labs would help provide a starter innovation space and show need for one in the future.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #1- Develop more connections between various engineering majors (Senior Design, ect) to encourage students not as far in the program to begin working in other labs from an earlier date'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Form bonds between all majors under the College of Engineering</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Univ 189 Professors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Academic Advisors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Senior Design Advisors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Convince the Dean of Engineering and department heads that it is beneficial to get outside of their specific major</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Form more interdisciplinary senior designs</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Develop strong ties between majors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #2 Open up Computer Labs for all majors'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Allow key card access to all engineering computer labs by all engineering students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Lab Instructors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">IT Department</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">UIF Students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Gain computer lab access</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #3 Open up Technical Labs for all majors'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description- Open technical labs like the IME, ME, EE, AG, and other labs so any Engineering major can enter them</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Lab Instructors</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Department Heads</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">UIF Students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Students</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Allow students to work in labs during business hours (8-5)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Look into getting off hours lab space for weeknights and weekends for students to get into the current lab</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Tactic #4 Skill Accreditation'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Description - There are hundreds of students on our campus that research and work on their own projects outside of the classroom. Although this is great for personal learning, this does not benefit the student when looking for a job or internship. The employer only sees what is on their resume or transcript. Maybe the student is an Industrial Engineer who is very skilled in machining. To a potential employer, they see that the student is an Industrial Engineer. There is no documented proof that this student is a skilled machinist. If a professor is willing to vouch for any student who, for example, is skilled in machining. Then the student should be giving the opportunity to prove to potential employers (on their transcript) that they are in fact skilled in machining.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Team Leaders: Andy Dalman, Kyle Stapleton</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Find potential professors who are interested in giving the certificates.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Talk with the academic office to have the certificates put onto transcripts.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">Tweak the accreditation program to suit the students.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Collaborative Innovation Course (New Fall 2015)</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">One major Pitfall with North Dakota State University is the lack of cross discipline coursework. There are 0 programs that connect majors that will be dealing with each other every day in the professional world, this needs to be changed. Creating a course with an enrollment cap per section that does not discriminate on major, class or even prerequisites is the ideal way to do so. Having a course with a wide variety of majors and backgrounds that are required to unify and complete a task/solve a problem/ etc., can plant the seed of innovation and design thinking in every student. Instructors that have some background in innovation, would form the problem around the demographics in a way to open their minds and change it.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">As a student that needs a few credits to take care of an "Innovation Alliance 320" Course would be far more appealing than "Billiards 120"</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">4. Imagine the Future</span></span></span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 Critical Thinking Classes (Progressing)</span></span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #1: Hit the Ground Running- Student Driven Experience.'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: The sooner students realize that the faster they can get involved with the campus, potential employers, real world work and experience the more excited they will be about taking the bull by the horns to steer their desires in whichever way they want them to go. Many students dreaded the way their high school educations were conducted. In high school lots of people say, "When am I ever going to use this stuff?" Now is time! Unfortunately, many freshman students have no clue what they want to do with their lives, and others just need to follow the directions to the map they have made in their heads (minority of students). The catering to these "undecided" students is essential to change the mindset of what it is to experience college. (Not just going to parties) The basis of this tactic is to empower students to actively seek hands on skills in their choosen career path. This maybe in the form of jobs, volunteering, clubs, and other outgoing groups.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: UNIV 189 professors? Dorm RAs? People responsible for scheduling motivational speakers (Specifically for college students)? I placed question marks behind each of these leaders because this is just what comes to mind of people who would be able to aid in this tactic. Possibly more.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Support from potential team leaders.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Actually getting students to go to speakers, be active in clubs, take internships, and learn what they want to learn outside of the traditional classroom.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students pressure higher-ups of the university to cater to their educational wants.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">University and individual colleges alter curriculums.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Entire college culture is changed from "Partying" to "Let's do something for ourselves along with the world".</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #2''':&nbsp;'''Classroom Driven Experience'''&nbsp;(Science Student Perspective)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: Use critical thinking and problem solving educational tactics along with or after a traditional lecture class and lab is complete. Labs are where these problem solving strategies can be applied more. An additional lab course should be available that adheres to more of using what they learned in that lab and lecture in a more investigative/problem solving way. This critical thinking experience would come after the student has complete the previous course. The class would be structured around what I would say as mini-research experiments. The students would use previous knowledge to help guide themselves into theories and hypothesis of what they believe could be the answer to whatever they are working on. Then they would carry out experiments to tests these ideas. -A very rough outline on how the class would be structured.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: Jordan Brummond, "I have heard rumors of similar sounding classes that will be starting up soon in my department by - Janice Haggart. I also believe Dr. Angela Hodgson is in her second year of a similar class."</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Curriculum Assessments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Find evidence that students who take this class are more successful academically/professionally and provide it to the masses- Brings hype to the class.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Integrate into regular curriculum.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Faculty support from multiple departments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Development of similar courses in other departments.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">'''Part #3: Mentor Driven Experience'''</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">Description:</span>&nbsp;Having outside entrepreneurs, businesses, or research professors "take in" students as mentees/apprentices/interns. A good comparison would be like a "Big Brother, Big Sister" for students with drive and passion to get right out into the real world while they work on their degrees.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: TBD</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Small number of mentors ready to pave the way.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Incorporate into already existing career fair.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">More mentors view it as a recruitment tool to atrract the best and brightest students.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">"Career fair" specifically as the recruitment tool.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students rewarded for their work other than the experience.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Success stories as a recruitment tool for both students and new mentors.</span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #2 Furthering I&E</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Further strategies for future development of I&E on NDSU campus include:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Acquire an Innovation Space (Progressing)</span></span></span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Providing students with a place 'with a sign on the door' designating it as purely a space for students to meet and hang out with innovative and entrepreneurial interests in mind will encourage and nourish the formation of ideas and student innovation teams/entrepreneurs, in no particular order. As rules can have a tendency to stifle innovation, the objective is to keep this space as free and open as possible, accessible to all majors and during as much of the day as is feasible.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">While a room with a whiteboard is enough to get us started, I would like to expand upon that as much as possible. I'm considering this a separate tactic as it involves going through different channels and asking for entirely different things from different people. The goal here is to network with as many higher-ups who support the movement as possible (many of whom have already been interviewed for the landscape canvas) and see what kind of extra equipment their department might be willing to lend. We're talking computers, Arduinos, soldering irons, scrap metal, hot glue guns.... anything not 'required' to run the I-space but would still contribute to its usefulness. More importantly, anything not nailed down! People resources are going in this tactic as well. The I-space will require a semi-regular pool of mentors, be they faculty, community leaders, or just motivate volunteers. The purpose of this group will be to offer more everyday advice and counsel than bringing in a speaker or holding an event.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px; line-height: 1.4;">Provide Legal and Financial Assistant to I&E Teams (Progressing)</span></span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">The author requests that you note the use of 'management' vs. 'protection.' Currently, there is little understanding amongst students that work they do that utilizes 'significant university resources' qualifies as university property. The native stance of the IP management system here is to&nbsp;</span>protect<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;all IP generated, not to&nbsp;</span>manage and distribute<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;it. We hope that, by working with the Tech Transfer Office and university higher-ups, a more transparent system can be developed... one that can be explained to students quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, the delivery system for getting the knowledge to students has to be structured in such a manner that it doesn't scare them off!&nbsp; Barring the ability to get the TTO more involved in proactively assisting with student IP, we at least hope to provide students with a seminar, guide, etc... on what exactly the relationship between them, their work, and the university actually is.</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">With this tactic, we're going to work closely with the NDSU research park and Tech Transfer Office to establish as best we can a formal step-by-step process for entreprenuers looking to start a business and/or license their own IP back from the university. Note that the point here is not to&nbsp;</span>constrain<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;but to&nbsp;</span>assist<span style="line-height: 1.4;">. The purpose of the formal system is to allow rails for the students to follow along their journey- right now there is nothing in place to assist students in the early or middle stages of planning, for example. Late stage business-founding can be handled by the Research Incubator... but how do you know to contact them? That is precisely what we are going to fix.&nbsp;</span>At the very least,<span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;this tactic will produce a flow chart of steps, people, andprocesses that have been succesful in the past for starting businesses at NDSU.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #3 Drone Focus</span></span></span></span><br/> ==<br />
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*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Description: DroneFocus is an annual event that brings together leaders in the drone industry from all acorss the country for an all-day conference. A recap of of last year's (2015) event is available at</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">[https://vimeo.com/133365221 <span style="color:#000000;">https://vimeo.com/133365221</span>]<span style="color:#000000;">. North Dakota is home to one of the leading Unmanned Arial System (UAS) hotspots in the nation. With industry leaders such as Botlink (</span>[https://botlink.com <span style="color:#000000;">https://botlink.com</span>]<span style="color:#000000;">) and facilities such as the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (</span>[http://www.npuasts.com <span style="color:#000000;">http://www.npuasts.com</span>]</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">), North Dakota holds the resources, technologies, and networking opportunity to experience the regional and national state of the UAS atmosphere. Guest speakers, pitch events, and networking opportunities will be just a few of the events available to attendees.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Team Leaders: Ben Ferguson</span></span></span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Milestones:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Designed Team Application (Completed - 01/08/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Distributed a write-up and outline to partner schools (Completed - 02/01/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
**<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Student Applications for the Pitch Competitions (04/15/2016)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
***<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">This event will take place on 06/01/2016</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Tactic #4 In House Entrepeneurship Program (New Fall 2015)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium">NDSU Currently offers a Certificate of Entrepeneurship as part of a collabrative program with the University of North Dakota. This program, although very beneficial, has seen very little student enrollment, primarly due to a lack of advertising and confusion coming from the partnership with UND. NDSU must work to establish its own, in house, entrepeneurship program. This will have an enourmus effect on the level of entrepeneurship on campus and when partnered with existing resources on campus, will have a massive impact.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">I-CORP</span></span></span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I-CORP is a student organization&nbsp;that is set up to help students who are at a mid-level of entrepreneurship activities. The students who are at a crossroads of innovation meeting entrepreneurship and are looking to get their ideas out and recognized in a company aspect but are unsure where to start. Such topics covered will be speakers from outside companies, classes on legal and financial aspects of starting up a business.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Additionally there will be networking to encourage students to converse with one another. This is to inspire help become&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">entrepreneurial.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Tactic #1 I&E Whitepages (Progressing)</span></span></span></span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">There is a large number of organizations on and off campus that are beneficial to innovation and entrepreneurship. NDSU overhauled its organization database recently but it is not all-inclusive and the search button does not work like it should. The other issue is that it does not tie into the community. The Fargo/Moorhead area has a strong I&E culture but there is no easy way for students to search and see what is available.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Goal- Create a wiki-based White Page style repository of all innovative and entrepreneurial events on campus and in the community.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Method- Create a wiki page for the university organizations</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Method- Compile a list of current on campus activities and allow students to add or edit activities as needed.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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= Related Links =<br />
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[[North Dakota State University]]<br />
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[[North Dakota State University Student Priorities]]<br />
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University Innovation Fellows<br />
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Spring 2016:<br />
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[[Denielle Danielson|Denielle Danielson]]<br />
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[[Ben Ferguson|Benjamin Ferguson]]<br />
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[[Kyle Stapleton|Kyle Stapleton]]<br />
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Fall 2015:<br />
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[[Diedrich Harms|Diedrich Harms]]<br />
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[[Robert Kringler|Robert Kringler]]<br />
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Fall 2014:<br />
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[[Jordan Brummond|Jordan Brummond]]<br />
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[[Jacob Larson|Jacob Larson]]<br />
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[[Drew Spooner|Drew Spooner]]<br />
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Fall 2013:<br />
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[[Andrew Dalman|Andrew Dalman]]<br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|n]]</div>David.t.syversonhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:David_Syverson&diff=39433Fellow:David Syverson2016-10-20T16:58:57Z<p>David.t.syverson: Created page with "David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at&nbsp;North Dakota State University|N..."</p>
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<div>David Syverson is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently a junior undergraduate studying Food Science as well as Food Safety at&nbsp;[[North Dakota State University|North_Dakota_State_University]]. He grew up in a town by the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities in Minnesota called Hastings, MN. David’s initial interest in Food Science was sparked by everyday chemistry and nutritional aspects in food. Being involved as a the Vice President of the Food Science and Safety Club along with working as a lab assistant for professors at NDSU has helped him develop the quickly growing major. Through his involvement in organizations he has been able to encourage students to active in the Food Science Community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>David.t.syverson