University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

School:Spelman College

2021-12-13T05:19:06Z

Savannaha906: The last section

Overview:

It is important for campuses to promote student innovation and entrepreneurship, encourage faculty to foster innovative and entrepreneurial spirits, support commercialization of inventions, facilitate collaboration between the college and outside businesses, and engage in efforts regionally and local economic development efforts. These qualities on college campuses are imperative to developing skillsets that prepare students to be innovative and creative in a community of intellectuals. Spelman College is a campus community of African American women who engage in a community of intellectuals and make a choice change the world. Through an intensive liberal arts community, I believe that Spelman has significant potential to generate a community of interdisciplinary backgrounds that will support all the skillsets necessary for innovation and entrepreneurship. 

Spelman has a ways to go in terms of a good amount of resources that foster innovation and entrepreneurship. Spelman hosts speakers series and provides opportunities for students to network. However, more can be done to help Spelman women within the college curriculum to start and pursue a business idea.

'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:'''

Students are innately creative and have ideas and solutions for problems. This is especially true on college campuses. I am often surrounded by students who are able to identify problems on the campus community and can easily come up with creative solutions to make students’ lives more easy. Spelman has embraced the need for encouraging students to inherit a mindset focused on entrepreneurship and innovation by implementing the First Year Colloquialism which engages students that are just entering the Spelman community to channel those spirits using real life examples and real world problems to solve problems. One of the problems in which the First Year Colloquialism tackles is the Black Lives Matter Movement. Students are charged with finding a solution on how to create ideas and implement projects that tackles the issues around the Black Lives Matter Movement. In addition, students have realized the importance the entrepreneurship plays in this new economy. They have begun to utilize the innovation lab more heavily and are organizing a #FashionHack. The #FashionHack will be a hackathon organized to get students from all disciplines interested in creating designs using machinery from the innovation lab. The hackathon will be judged and winners’ designs will be sold in the Spelman College bookstore.

I want to echo that the innovation lab is a great place for student innovation and entrepreneurship. All students are welcome to use it for discussing ideas and bringing them to life. Innovation co-hosts and lab leaders strive to engage students in interdisciplinary collaborations to cultivate new and revolutionary ideas. The innovation lab also runs a number of clubs: the entrepreneurship club, design club, and Spelman XR club. The entrepreneurship club welcomes all students and exposes them to established entrepreneurs who counsel them on their ideas.

'''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:'''

It is incredibly important to make sure that faculty are also encouraged to express their innovation and entrepreneurship skills. This is important because faculty will begin to have an influence on how students are perceiving these skills and get an idea on how to implement them for themselves. One way to encourage faculty and staff to engage in these skills is to get them to implement project-based curriculums for their courses and implement one big project at the end of the course where students would be able to present their projects at an expo held by the school. This will allow students to solve problems based on interdisciplinary courses and provide students with the opportunity to engage in pitching their product that would ultimately relate to their field of study while solving a real world problem.

Most of the faculty use innovative techniques to introduce students to real world examples of the skills they are trying to each and employ black celebrities to engage students. The push towards entrepreneurship comes from the art and career driven departments. Faculty often make suggestions about the creative things students can do in future professions or as a side hustle.

'''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''

One problem on campus is that I think not enough students are aware of the opportunities through entrepreneurship. If students are not able to imagine themselves starting their own start-up, then they will not think of the resources to make their start-up come to life. I think more students need access to understanding the process of having a start-up come to life to understand the resources that are necessary to make it actually come to life. On campus, we should expose students to the iterative process of starting a business and to show them how to use their technology intellectual property purposes.

'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''

Collaboration with the Atlanta ecosystem will be crucial and significant in the mission of trying to promote a more entrepreneurial culture on campus. As the ecosystem grows larger, there is room for student and business collaboration to get students acquainted and acclimated with starting a business. The idea is that students will obtain the skills and knowledge that is necessary in beginning their own ventures. One of the commodities I would like to see implemented is students that will be matched with an organization in the Atlanta startup ecosystem and will utilize the innovation labs to think up ideas about how to contribute to the business’ business plan to attain more customers and be competitive in this market. Students will utilize the innovation lab to collaborate with these organizations to enhance their skillset and become more advance in the entrepreneurship world.

This year, we looked into Spelman’s Innovation Lab, the STEM Research Study, and internship programs as university-industry collaboration. Students can use the innovation lab and the entrepreneurship club has students pitch their ideas to companies. Internships put students in the workplace and can give them experience of the day-to-day.

==Related Links==

'''Spelman College'''

[[Spelman_College:_Student_priorities|Spelman College Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Brianna Fugate]]

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[[Category:Spelman_College]]
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School:Spelman College

2021-12-13T03:14:24Z

Savannaha906: The third section

Overview:

It is important for campuses to promote student innovation and entrepreneurship, encourage faculty to foster innovative and entrepreneurial spirits, support commercialization of inventions, facilitate collaboration between the college and outside businesses, and engage in efforts regionally and local economic development efforts. These qualities on college campuses are imperative to developing skillsets that prepare students to be innovative and creative in a community of intellectuals. Spelman College is a campus community of African American women who engage in a community of intellectuals and make a choice change the world. Through an intensive liberal arts community, I believe that Spelman has significant potential to generate a community of interdisciplinary backgrounds that will support all the skillsets necessary for innovation and entrepreneurship. 

Spelman has a ways to go in terms of a good amount of resources that foster innovation and entrepreneurship. Spelman hosts speakers series and provides opportunities for students to network. However, more can be done to help Spelman women within the college curriculum to start and pursue a business idea.

'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:'''

Students are innately creative and have ideas and solutions for problems. This is especially true on college campuses. I am often surrounded by students who are able to identify problems on the campus community and can easily come up with creative solutions to make students’ lives more easy. Spelman has embraced the need for encouraging students to inherit a mindset focused on entrepreneurship and innovation by implementing the First Year Colloquialism which engages students that are just entering the Spelman community to channel those spirits using real life examples and real world problems to solve problems. One of the problems in which the First Year Colloquialism tackles is the Black Lives Matter Movement. Students are charged with finding a solution on how to create ideas and implement projects that tackles the issues around the Black Lives Matter Movement. In addition, students have realized the importance the entrepreneurship plays in this new economy. They have begun to utilize the innovation lab more heavily and are organizing a #FashionHack. The #FashionHack will be a hackathon organized to get students from all disciplines interested in creating designs using machinery from the innovation lab. The hackathon will be judged and winners’ designs will be sold in the Spelman College bookstore.

I want to echo that the innovation lab is a great place for student innovation and entrepreneurship. All students are welcome to use it for discussing ideas and bringing them to life. Innovation co-hosts and lab leaders strive to engage students in interdisciplinary collaborations to cultivate new and revolutionary ideas. The innovation lab also runs a number of clubs: the entrepreneurship club, design club, and Spelman XR club. The entrepreneurship club welcomes all students and exposes them to established entrepreneurs who counsel them on their ideas.

'''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:'''

It is incredibly important to make sure that faculty are also encouraged to express their innovation and entrepreneurship skills. This is important because faculty will begin to have an influence on how students are perceiving these skills and get an idea on how to implement them for themselves. One way to encourage faculty and staff to engage in these skills is to get them to implement project-based curriculums for their courses and implement one big project at the end of the course where students would be able to present their projects at an expo held by the school. This will allow students to solve problems based on interdisciplinary courses and provide students with the opportunity to engage in pitching their product that would ultimately relate to their field of study while solving a real world problem. 

Most of the faculty use innovative techniques to introduce students to real world examples of the skills they are trying to each and employ black celebrities to engage students. The push towards entrepreneurship comes from the art and career driven departments. Faculty often make suggestions about the creative things students can do in future professions or as a side hustle.

'''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''

One problem on campus is that I think not enough students are aware of the opportunities through entrepreneurship. If students are not able to imagine themselves starting their own start-up, then they will not think of the resources to make their start-up come to life. I think more students need access to understanding the process of having a start-up come to life to understand the resources that are necessary to make it actually come to life. On campus, we should expose students to the iterative process of starting a business and to show them how to use their technology intellectual property purposes.

'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''

Collaboration with the Atlanta ecosystem will be crucial and significant in the mission of trying to promote a more entrepreneurial culture on campus. As the ecosystem grows larger, there is room for student and business collaboration to get students acquainted and acclimated with starting a business. The idea is that students will obtain the skills and knowledge that is necessary in beginning their own ventures. One of the commodities I would like to see implemented is students that will be matched with an organization in the Atlanta startup ecosystem and will utilize the innovation labs to think up ideas about how to contribute to the business’ business plan to attain more customers and be competitive in this market. Students will utilize the innovation lab to collaborate with these organizations to enhance their skillset and become more advance in the entrepreneurship world.

==Related Links==

'''Spelman College'''

[[Spelman_College:_Student_priorities|Spelman College Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Brianna Fugate]]

[[Category:Universities|s]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Spelman_College]]
{{CatTree|Spelman_College}}

School:Spelman College

2021-12-13T02:47:13Z

Savannaha906: The first two sections

Overview:

It is important for campuses to promote student innovation and entrepreneurship, encourage faculty to foster innovative and entrepreneurial spirits, support commercialization of inventions, facilitate collaboration between the college and outside businesses, and engage in efforts regionally and local economic development efforts. These qualities on college campuses are imperative to developing skillsets that prepare students to be innovative and creative in a community of intellectuals. Spelman College is a campus community of African American women who engage in a community of intellectuals and make a choice change the world. Through an intensive liberal arts community, I believe that Spelman has significant potential to generate a community of interdisciplinary backgrounds that will support all the skillsets necessary for innovation and entrepreneurship. 

Spelman has a ways to go in terms of a good amount of resources that foster innovation and entrepreneurship. Spelman hosts speakers series and provides opportunities for students to network. However, more can be done to help Spelman women within the college curriculum to start and pursue a business idea.

'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:'''

Students are innately creative and have ideas and solutions for problems. This is especially true on college campuses. I am often surrounded by students who are able to identify problems on the campus community and can easily come up with creative solutions to make students’ lives more easy. Spelman has embraced the need for encouraging students to inherit a mindset focused on entrepreneurship and innovation by implementing the First Year Colloquialism which engages students that are just entering the Spelman community to channel those spirits using real life examples and real world problems to solve problems. One of the problems in which the First Year Colloquialism tackles is the Black Lives Matter Movement. Students are charged with finding a solution on how to create ideas and implement projects that tackles the issues around the Black Lives Matter Movement. In addition, students have realized the importance the entrepreneurship plays in this new economy. They have begun to utilize the innovation lab more heavily and are organizing a #FashionHack. The #FashionHack will be a hackathon organized to get students from all disciplines interested in creating designs using machinery from the innovation lab. The hackathon will be judged and winners’ designs will be sold in the Spelman College bookstore.

I want to echo that the innovation lab is a great place for student innovation and entrepreneurship. All students are welcome to use it for discussing ideas and bringing them to life. Innovation co-hosts and lab leaders strive to engage students in interdisciplinary collaborations to cultivate new and revolutionary ideas. The innovation lab also runs a number of clubs: the entrepreneurship club, design club, and Spelman XR club. The entrepreneurship club welcomes all students and exposes them to established entrepreneurs who counsel them on their ideas.

'''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:'''

It is incredibly important to make sure that faculty are also encouraged to express their innovation and entrepreneurship skills. This is important because faculty will begin to have an influence on how students are perceiving these skills and get an idea on how to implement them for themselves. One way to encourage faculty and staff to engage in these skills is to get them to implement project-based curriculums for their courses and implement one big project at the end of the course where students would be able to present their projects at an expo held by the school. This will allow students to solve problems based on interdisciplinary courses and provide students with the opportunity to engage in pitching their product that would ultimately relate to their field of study while solving a real world problem. 

'''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''

One problem on campus is that I think not enough students are aware of the opportunities through entrepreneurship. If students are not able to imagine themselves starting their own start-up, then they will not think of the resources to make their start-up come to life. I think more students need access to understanding the process of having a start-up come to life to understand the resources that are necessary to make it actually come to life. On campus, we should expose students to the iterative process of starting a business and to show them how to use their technology intellectual property purposes.

'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''

Collaboration with the Atlanta ecosystem will be crucial and significant in the mission of trying to promote a more entrepreneurial culture on campus. As the ecosystem grows larger, there is room for student and business collaboration to get students acquainted and acclimated with starting a business. The idea is that students will obtain the skills and knowledge that is necessary in beginning their own ventures. One of the commodities I would like to see implemented is students that will be matched with an organization in the Atlanta startup ecosystem and will utilize the innovation labs to think up ideas about how to contribute to the business’ business plan to attain more customers and be competitive in this market. Students will utilize the innovation lab to collaborate with these organizations to enhance their skillset and become more advance in the entrepreneurship world.

==Related Links==

'''Spelman College'''

[[Spelman_College:_Student_priorities|Spelman College Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Brianna Fugate]]

[[Category:Universities|s]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Spelman_College]]
{{CatTree|Spelman_College}}

Fellow:Savannah Adams

2021-12-04T21:49:49Z

Savannaha906: Created Fellow Page - 2021

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==Bio==
I was born on May 6, 2002, in Houston, TX and I am the oldest of four siblings. I discovered my love of art at age 2 and I began taking art classes in 7th grade. In 2017, I moved from Houston to Dallas, TX. I have attended three different high schools and I graduated in the top 25% of my class. My hobbies include listening to music, singing, and drawing.

==Achievements==
- Part of Spelman's first bio-design group and competed in the annual Biodesign competition. Placed as the overall runner-up in June 2021.
- Published on an essay discussing our bio-design idea.
- Lab leader for the Spelman Innovation Lab.
- Student at the #1 HBC (or Historically Black College) in America

==Social media profiles==
Instagram: @sama.2168

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User:Savannaha906

2021-12-04T21:49:49Z

Savannaha906: Redirect to Fellow Page

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2021-12-04T15:52:10Z

Savannaha906:

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2021-12-04T15:45:22Z

Savannaha906:

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2021-10-30T12:03:06Z

Savannaha906 (talk | contribs) commented on "Spelman College Online Platforms" (Spelman College has used Zoom and campus-wide emails to connect their students with remote internship, career, and academic opportunities...)

Resource talk:How to create a cross-cutting student organization

2021-10-30T05:48:08Z

Savannaha906: /* Resource Talk Response */

This page, Creating Resource talk: How to create a cross-cutting student organization, was very informative and provided information that is very beneficial to forming cross-cutting student organizations. This page discusses the types of students you want to focus on attracting to your group. These types of student's should have some sort of leadership experience, be passionate about your mission, and want to stick around and support your mission for a long time. This page also discusses how to attract these students and describes some creative methods for doing so. In addition to attracting students, which are described as the "fuel" to your cause, it is important to build strong relationships with faculty members, otherwise known as the "engine" to your cause. With any organization, funding is very important. One interesting point this article made was that funding will come when your group is ready for it. Your group's main goal should be to, "break down barriers and bring people together".

== Resource Talk Response ==

I enjoyed reading this. It was very insightful, a lot of well thought out steps to building a group that includes a variety of different students. It gives readers some insight into a step by step process for attracting potential members to expand the I&E group.

Resource talk:How to create a cross-cutting student organization

2021-10-30T05:47:10Z

Savannaha906: /* Resource Talk Response */ new section

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2021-10-30T04:31:30Z

Savannaha906 (talk | contribs) commented on "My Why" (I think your WHY is beautiful. Society has deemed what are the proper and adequate career choices, but as an art major I want to show oth...)