Fellow:LaRissa Lawrie

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<div><span style="font-size:medium;">[[File:LaRissa Lawrie.jpg|frame|center]]<br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">Lawrie earned a B.A. in Strategic Communication from Wichita State University in 2017. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in Communication from Wichita State and is set to graduate in 2019.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">She was born and raised in Wichita Kansas. Her background is in technical communications and working with engineers to create technical white papers. She is currently working as a freelance journalist, strategic branding consultant, and public speaking instructor.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Some highlights of her UIF work include: </span></div>
*<span style="font-size:medium;">Helping found Shocker Startup (Wichita State’s first innovation and entrepreneurship student organization) and in the past served as Vice President. Shocker Startup has organized multiple large speaking events at Wichita State, hosted pitch competitions, created an alumni network of mentors to support student entrepreneurs, and given away grant money to interdisciplinary student teams to fund prototypes.</span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;">Giving pop-up classes and guest lectures on design-thinking, rapid prototyping, and creative confidence skills. This has served as a way to involve non-technical students in the innovation ecosystem and get them involved. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">has helped facilitate design thinking activities at the November Silicon Valley Meetup in 2017 and several academic conferences. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">has taught over 1,500 people design thinking.</span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">and Hannah Hund participated in an Aggies Invent design competition at Texas A&M during the summer of 2016. Their team took third place. Both </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">and Hannah decided to work to bring that style of </span><span style="font-size:medium;">design</span><span style="font-size:medium;">competition to Wichita State. In 2017, They helped organize “Mars or Bust” - a 24 design competition around space sustainability at Wichita State. In 2018, they helped bring “Invent for the Planet” to Wichita State, a global design competition in coordination with Texas A&M. </span>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">is a past President of Lambda Pi Eta at Wichita State University - a national communications honor society. She also was awarded a writing fellowship with Salon. She is active in the entrepreneurship and communications communities in Wichita, she is also a member of the Wichita Professional Communicators and the National Federation of Press Women.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Throughout her college career, she has been interested in the positive effects of bringing together diverse groups of students. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">learned about University Innovation Fellows when she co-founded Shocker Startup with Wesley Alexis and Hannah Hund. UIF has given her the opportunity to explore how innovation and entrepreneurship can empower students. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa’s</span><span style="font-size:medium;">passion is at the intersection of communication and technology. That passion is one of the primary drivers of her work to introduce interdisciplinary studies to Wichita State.</span></div><div><br/></div>
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== '''Contact Information''' ==

<span style="font-size:medium;">If you would like to get in touch with </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">, feel free to email her at larissa@lawriecreative.com, call her at (316) 734-9212 and/or reach out on social media. Her website is larissalawrie.com.</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">Feel free to contact her about any or all of the following: Teaching Design Thinking classes, navigating higher education systems, starting university innovation and entrepreneurship clubs, unconferences, hosting design competitions, I&E curriculum, and communication-related items like social media marketing.</span>

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= Related Links =

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorites]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">University Innovation Fellows</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">Spring 2016:</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Jocelyn Galicia|Jocelyn Galicia]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Jesus Gomes|Jesus Gomez]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''LaRissa Lawrie'''</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Michael Schlesinger|Michael Schlesinger]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Caylin Wiley|Caylin Wiley]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">Fall 2015:</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]</span>

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= <span style="color:#ffd700;"><u>Wichita State University</u></span> =

== Project Pitch Video ==

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== <u>'''Strategy 1: Alter the campus culture through curriculum'''</u> ==

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: <span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rethinking Senior Design Courses</span>

*<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:</span>

<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.</span>

*<span style="line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Involving Employers</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. </span></span>

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== <u>'''Strategy 2: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community'''</u> ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

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Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

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The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
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Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p></span>

<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p></span>

== <u>'''Strategy 3: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives.'''</u> ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''<br/>Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== <u>'''Strategy 4: Innovation Central Network'''</u> ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

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The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== <u>'''Strategy 5: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation'''</u> ==

'''Project Lead – Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''Fellows'''

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities]]

Fellow:LaRissa Lawrie

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