University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T21:29:36Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== ==

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Three: Start-Up Funding [6 months] ==

While GVSU and Grand Rapids have many different programs which allow students to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation, there are not many opportunities for funding. Our goal is to find more funding programs which will give money to these different projects. In order to do this, we will reach out to different companies in the Grand Rapids area and find resources on GVSU's campus. We feel this is important because, in order to put on various events like Design Start, we would need funding.

== Strategy Four: Prototyping a Product [8 months] ==

A main goal of the Grand Valley State University Social Product Innovation Club is to create a solid product prototype. In order to create a prototype, we need to pick a problem to focus on and go through the Design Thinking process. First, we will go through the empathize stage by going to companies, or hospitals to gather information. We will then define our problem and layout possible obstacles we could encounter. Next, we will get a group of people together to ideate and brainstorm possible solutions. Once we have completed all of these steps, we will then be in the prototyping phase. During this time, we will create a low-resolution mock-up of our potential product in order to test it. We hope to create a product that will benefit the communities around us.

== Strategy Five: Reach out to Start Garden [12 months] ==

Start Garden is a company based in Grand Rapids. They believe in learning by doing. They continually try new things, learn from them, and then adapt to fit. The goal of Start Garden is to establish a culture of entrepreneurship and invest whatever they can into that culture.

Start Garden mostly focuses on helping start-up companies get on their feet and get ready to take off. Our goal is to reach out to this company and get in touch with different businessmen and businesswomen. These people could potentially act as mentors and help the SPI club take important strides towards creating a successful product.

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T21:27:49Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== ==

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Three: Start-Up Funding [6 months] ==

While GVSU and Grand Rapids have many different programs which allow students to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation, there are not many opportunities for funding. Our goal is to find more funding programs which will give money to these different projects. In order to do this, we will reach out to different companies in the Grand Rapids area and find resources on GVSU's campus. We feel this is important because, in order to put on various events like Design Start, we would need funding.

== Strategy Four: Prototyping a Product [8 months] ==

A main goal of the Grand Valley State University Social Product Innovation Club is to create a solid product prototype. In order to create a prototype, we need to pick a problem to focus on and go through the Design Thinking process. First, we will go through the empathize stage by going to companies, or hospitals to gather information. We will then define our problem and layout possible obstacles we could encounter. Next, we will get a group of people together to ideate and brainstorm possible solutions. Once we have completed all of these steps, we will then be in the prototyping phase. During this time, we will create a low-resolution mock-up of our potential product in order to test it. We hope to create a product that will benefit the communities around us.

== Strategy Five: Reach out to Start Garden [12 months] ==

Start Garden is a company based in Grand Rapids. They believe in learning by doing. They continually try new things, learn from them, and then adapt to fit. The goal of Start Garden is to establish a culture of entrepreneurship and invest whatever they can into that culture.

Start Garden mostly focuses on helping start-up companies get on their feet and get ready to take off. Our goal is to reach out to this company and get in touch with different businessmen and businesswomen. These people could potentially act as mentors and help the SPI club take important strides towards creating a successful product.

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T01:48:29Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== ==

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Three: Start-Up Funding [6 months] ==

While GVSU and Grand Rapids have many different programs which allow students to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation, there are not many opportunities for funding. Our goal is to find more funding programs which will give money to these different projects. In order to do this, we will reach out to different companies in the Grand Rapids area and find resources on GVSU's campus. We feel this is important because, in order to put on various events like Design Start, we would need funding.

== Strategy Four: Prototyping a Product [8 months] ==

A main goal of the Grand Valley State University Social Product Innovation Club is to create a solid product prototype. In order to create a prototype, we need to pick a problem to focus on and go through the Design Thinking process. First, we will go through the empathize stage by going to companies, or hospitals to gather information. We will then define our problem and layout possible obstacles we could encounter. Next, we will get a group of people together to ideate and brainstorm possible solutions. Once we have completed all of these steps, we will then be in the prototyping phase. During this time, we will create a low-resolution mock-up of our potential product in order to test it. We hope to create a product that will benefit the communities around us.

== Strategy Five: Reach out to Start Garden [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start Garden is a company based in Grand Rapids. 

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T01:48:10Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Three: Start-Up Funding [6 months] ==

While GVSU and Grand Rapids have many different programs which allow students to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation, there are not many opportunities for funding. Our goal is to find more funding programs which will give money to these different projects. In order to do this, we will reach out to different companies in the Grand Rapids area and find resources on GVSU's campus. We feel this is important because, in order to put on various events like Design Start, we would need funding.

== Strategy Four: Prototyping a Product [8 months] ==

A main goal of the Grand Valley State University Social Product Innovation Club is to create a solid product prototype. In order to create a prototype, we need to pick a problem to focus on and go through the Design Thinking process. First, we will go through the empathize stage by going to companies, or hospitals to gather information. We will then define our problem and layout possible obstacles we could encounter. Next, we will get a group of people together to ideate and brainstorm possible solutions. Once we have completed all of these steps, we will then be in the prototyping phase. During this time, we will create a low-resolution mock-up of our potential product in order to test it. We hope to create a product that will benefit the communities around us.

== Strategy Five: Reach out to Start Garden [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start Garden is a company based in Grand Rapids. 

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T01:32:10Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Three: Start-Up Funding [6 months] ==

While GVSU and Grand Rapids have many different programs which allow students to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation, there are not many opportunities for funding. Our goal is to find more funding programs which will give money to these different projects. In order to do this, we will reach out to different companies in the Grand Rapids area and find resources on GVSU's campus. We feel this is important because, in order to put on various events like Design Start, we would need funding.

== Strategy Four: Prototyping a Product [8 months] ==

A main goal of the Grand Valley State University Social Product Innovation Club is to create a solid product prototype. In order to create a prototype, we need to pick a problem to focus on and go through the Design Thinking process. First, we will go through the empathize stage by going to companies, or hospitals to gather information. We will then define our problem and layout possible obstacles we could encounter. Next, we will get a group of people together to ideate and brainstorm possible solutions. Once we have completed all of these steps, we will then be in the prototyping phase. During this time, we will create a low-resolution mock-up of our potential product in order to test it. We hope to create a product that will benefit the communities around us.

== Strategy Five: Reach out to Start Garden [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start Garden is a company based in Grand Rapids. 

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T01:19:33Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Three: Start-Up Funding [6 months] ==

While GVSU and Grand Rapids have many different programs which allow students to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation, there are not many opportunities for funding. Our goal is to find more funding programs which will give money to these different projects. In order to do this, we will reach out to different companies in the Grand Rapids area and find resources on GVSU's campus. We feel this is important because, in order to put on various events like Design Start, we would need funding.

== Strategy Four: Prototyping a Product [8 months] ==

A main goal of the Grand Valley State University Social Product Innovation Club is to create a solid product prototype. In order to create a prototype, we need to pick a problem to focus on and go through the Design Thinking process. First, we will go through the empathize stage by going to companies, or hospitals to gather information. We will then define our problem and layout possible obstacles we could encounter. Next, we will get a group of people together to ideate and brainstorm possible solutions. Once we have completed all of these steps, we will then be in the prototyping phase. During this time, we will create a low-resolution mock-up of our potential product in order to test it. We hope to create a product that will benefit the communities around us.

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T01:05:11Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Three: Start-Up Funding [6 months] ==

While GVSU and Grand Rapids have many different programs which allow students to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation, there are not many opportunities for funding. Our goal is to find more funding programs which will give money to these different projects. In order to do this, we will reach out to different companies in the Grand Rapids area and find resources on GVSU's campus. We feel this is important because, in order to put on various events like Design Start, we would need funding.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:57:53Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:57:36Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:57:02Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== ==

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:56:38Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== ==

== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:55:51Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different colleges and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come and work together.

== ==

== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:51:59Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

== ==

== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:41:24Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] ==

== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. ==

== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics up to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.<span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different college and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting-pot of students to come and work together. ==

== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year. ==

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:39:36Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

== Strategy Three: EDU Share Night (8-20 Weeks] ==

There are eight separate colleges at GVSU, and there is very little collaboration between them. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create an open event that crosses the traditional boundaries in pursuit of innovation.

EDU Share Night focuses on open access for all students. It provides a space and audience in which students, faculty, and staff can share their interests and passions. The event would focus on presentations. Whether fully formed, such as a formal paper, artistic piece, or speech, or only beginning, like a startup idea, novel concept, or scientific study hypothesis, all GVSU affiliates would be welcome to share, receive feedback, and connect with experts in their study area. All of the colleges at Grand Valley specialize in a particular field, which would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with.

The biggest limitations of this idea are interest, and sustainment. Promotion would need to occur to gather student interest at each of the colleges. Due to the lack of visibility in the honors college, it would be essential to promote effectively. A poor turnout for the first event would discourage attendees from returning should it be held again. Secondly, sustainment of the collaborative process after the event will be difficult. We are still developing a safe, useful option for event participants to stay in contact, stay involved, and continue to pursue their passions after the EDU Share Night.

 

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:37:52Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

 

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] == Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics up to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding. Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different college and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting-pot of students to come and work together.
<div>Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year.</div>

== Strategy Three: EDU Share Night (8-20 Weeks] ==

There are eight separate colleges at GVSU, and there is very little collaboration between them. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create an open event that crosses the traditional boundaries in pursuit of innovation.

EDU Share Night focuses on open access for all students. It provides a space and audience in which students, faculty, and staff can share their interests and passions. The event would focus on presentations. Whether fully formed, such as a formal paper, artistic piece, or speech, or only beginning, like a startup idea, novel concept, or scientific study hypothesis, all GVSU affiliates would be welcome to share, receive feedback, and connect with experts in their study area. All of the colleges at Grand Valley specialize in a particular field, which would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with.

The biggest limitations of this idea are interest, and sustainment. Promotion would need to occur to gather student interest at each of the colleges. Due to the lack of visibility in the honors college, it would be essential to promote effectively. A poor turnout for the first event would discourage attendees from returning should it be held again. Secondly, sustainment of the collaborative process after the event will be difficult. We are still developing a safe, useful option for event participants to stay in contact, stay involved, and continue to pursue their passions after the EDU Share Night.

 

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:36:57Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

 

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] == Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics up to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding. Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different college and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting-pot of students to come and work together.
<div>Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year.</div>

== Strategy Three: EDU Share Night (8-20 Weeks] ==

There are eight separate colleges at GVSU, and there is very little collaboration between them. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create an open event that crosses the traditional boundaries in pursuit of innovation.

EDU Share Night focuses on open access for all students. It provides a space and audience in which students, faculty, and staff can share their interests and passions. The event would focus on presentations. Whether fully formed, such as a formal paper, artistic piece, or speech, or only beginning, like a startup idea, novel concept, or scientific study hypothesis, all GVSU affiliates would be welcome to share, receive feedback, and connect with experts in their study area. All of the colleges at Grand Valley specialize in a particular field, which would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with.

The biggest limitations of this idea are interest, and sustainment. Promotion would need to occur to gather student interest at each of the colleges. Due to the lack of visibility in the honors college, it would be essential to promote effectively. A poor turnout for the first event would discourage attendees from returning should it be held again. Secondly, sustainment of the collaborative process after the event will be difficult. We are still developing a safe, useful option for event participants to stay in contact, stay involved, and continue to pursue their passions after the EDU Share Night.

 

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-04T00:36:27Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

 

== Strategy Two: Design Start [3-4 months] == Design Start will be a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and validate their solutions with others. Many times, students relate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. While this can be the case, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics up to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding. Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universities. This program will be open to students from many different college and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting-pot of students to come and work together.
<div>Once this program has passed and proven to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following year.</div>

== Strategy Three: EDU Share Night (8-20 Weeks] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are eight separate colleges at GVSU, and there is very little collaboration between them. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create an open event that crosses the traditional boundaries in pursuit of innovation.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EDU Share Night focuses on open access for all students. It provides a space and audience in which students, faculty, and staff can share their interests and passions. The event would focus on presentations. Whether fully formed, such as a formal paper, artistic piece, or speech, or only beginning, like a startup idea, novel concept, or scientific study hypothesis, all GVSU affiliates would be welcome to share, receive feedback, and connect with experts in their study area. All of the colleges at Grand Valley specialize in a particular field, which would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The biggest limitations of this idea are interest, and sustainment. Promotion would need to occur to gather student interest at each of the colleges. Due to the lack of visibility in the honors college, it would be essential to promote effectively. A poor turnout for the first event would discourage attendees from returning should it be held again. Secondly, sustainment of the collaborative process after the event will be difficult. We are still developing a safe, useful option for event participants to stay in contact, stay involved, and continue to pursue their passions after the EDU Share Night.

 

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-02T02:41:36Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: SPI Club [3-4 weeks] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to promote a collaborative environment where students can learn about entrepreneurship and innovation, we will pursue the idea of launching a "Social Product Innovation" club. This club will allow students to collaborate with one another in order to tackle issues within the local communities. Our hope is that students will learn valuable skills such as networking, prototyping, and business pitching throughout the duration of this club's existence. We feel it has the potential to reach students throughout Grand Valley, and change their ideas on what entrepreneurship and innovation really means.

 

== Strategy Two: Business and Entrepreneurship Collaboration [24 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GVSU has a new major as of 2017, the entrepreneurship major. This major is in the business college and therefore, like all business majors a Grand Valley, requires the business capstone class. In addition, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduate. We believe that for some of the senior projects it would be beneficial to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major to write business plans, run finances, etc to determine if the design project would make a viable business.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This would not only encourage collaboration between colleges but would also give students a sense of how products are designed in the real world. This would also introduce business concepts to the engineering students and technology to the business students.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If we see success in this program, possibly utilizing a style similar to the Purdue EPICS program, it can be expanded to include other colleges and majors.

 

== Strategy Three: EDU Share Night (8-20 Weeks] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are eight separate colleges at GVSU, and there is very little collaboration between them. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create an open event that crosses the traditional boundaries in pursuit of innovation.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EDU Share Night focuses on open access for all students. It provides a space and audience in which students, faculty, and staff can share their interests and passions. The event would focus on presentations. Whether fully formed, such as a formal paper, artistic piece, or speech, or only beginning, like a startup idea, novel concept, or scientific study hypothesis, all GVSU affiliates would be welcome to share, receive feedback, and connect with experts in their study area. All of the colleges at Grand Valley specialize in a particular field, which would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The biggest limitations of this idea are interest, and sustainment. Promotion would need to occur to gather student interest at each of the colleges. Due to the lack of visibility in the honors college, it would be essential to promote effectively. A poor turnout for the first event would discourage attendees from returning should it be held again. Secondly, sustainment of the collaborative process after the event will be difficult. We are still developing a safe, useful option for event participants to stay in contact, stay involved, and continue to pursue their passions after the EDU Share Night.

 

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2018-10-02T02:35:55Z

Meredithhinz:

= Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture through the creation of clubs or workshops that will nurture these values. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.

= Opportunity Focus =
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li>
<li>The I&E resources in the Business College are not readily available to students of all departments.</li>
<li>Create a more inclusive environment where students can collaborate and share ideas.</li>
<li>Lack of events, idea pitches, or competitions that encourage students to pursue individual exploration and experimentation with the design thinking process.</li>
<li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li>
</ul>

== Strategy One: Collaboration Space [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to promote a collaborative environment where students feel comfortable sharing their ideas and giving feedback, we would like to pursue reinventing a current space to make it collaboration-focused. This can take a variety of formats. Incorporating technology, providing prototyping materials, and utilizing previously unused space would be some easy ways to create a collaboration space within the Honors College. Our hope is that students will make this a common place to work on projects and hold meaningful discussion. Because there are many underused spaces within this building, we feel like it has the potential to become a great working environment that can foster change within our community.

 

== Strategy Two: Business and Entrepreneurship Collaboration [24 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GVSU has a new major as of 2017, the entrepreneurship major. This major is in the business college and therefore, like all business majors a Grand Valley, requires the business capstone class. In addition, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduate. We believe that for some of the senior projects it would be beneficial to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major to write business plans, run finances, etc to determine if the design project would make a viable business.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This would not only encourage collaboration between colleges but would also give students a sense of how products are designed in the real world. This would also introduce business concepts to the engineering students and technology to the business students.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If we see success in this program, possibly utilizing a style similar to the Purdue EPICS program, it can be expanded to include other colleges and majors.

 

== Strategy Three: EDU Share Night (8-20 Weeks] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are eight separate colleges at GVSU, and there is very little collaboration between them. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create an open event that crosses the traditional boundaries in pursuit of innovation.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EDU Share Night focuses on open access for all students. It provides a space and audience in which students, faculty, and staff can share their interests and passions. The event would focus on presentations. Whether fully formed, such as a formal paper, artistic piece, or speech, or only beginning, like a startup idea, novel concept, or scientific study hypothesis, all GVSU affiliates would be welcome to share, receive feedback, and connect with experts in their study area. All of the colleges at Grand Valley specialize in a particular field, which would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The biggest limitations of this idea are interest, and sustainment. Promotion would need to occur to gather student interest at each of the colleges. Due to the lack of visibility in the honors college, it would be essential to promote effectively. A poor turnout for the first event would discourage attendees from returning should it be held again. Secondly, sustainment of the collaborative process after the event will be difficult. We are still developing a safe, useful option for event participants to stay in contact, stay involved, and continue to pursue their passions after the EDU Share Night.

 

== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and feedback.

== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, it can be very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to others and the community. By holding an event the night before winter semester classes, freshmen would have a chance to make more connections with each other in a more relaxed setting. After having a semester under their belts, they would be more comfortable and have more in common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to give freshmen incentive to come. We would also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the freshman experience.

  

== Strategy Six: Sequence Collaboration [12 months] ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.  The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.  At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.  Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.  

 

== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

[https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/ https://www.facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=qGmKFqY06is}}

== Related Links ==

[[Grand Valley State University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is]

2017 Fellows:

[[Meredith Filter|Meredith_Filter]]

[[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

[[Dean Geschiere|Dean_Geschiere]]

2016 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Rogutica Allison Rogutich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ben_Parsell Ben Parsell]

[[Joe Vanderbroek|Joe VanderBroek]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nikhil_Watsa Nikhil Watsa]

2015 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jonathan%20Cook Jonathan_Cook]

2014 Fellow:

[[Kathryn Christopher]]

[[Leah Bauer]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|g]]