University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T01:32:26Z

Van Nguyen:

Van is one of the five University Innovation Fellows at Smith College. She is currently a senior pursuing double major in Economics and Computer Science with a concentration in Global Financial Institutions. On campus, Van works at Lazarus Center for Career Development as a Peer Advisor and Center for Media Production as a Technology Consultant. She is also an Economics Teaching Assistant, student liaison at the Statistical & Data Sciences Department, and Vice President of Smith College Consulting Club.

Van has previous work experience in data management, research and investment banking. She is very interested in using business and quantitative skills as well as the design thinking approach to solve problems, especially in the field of technology and finance. Outside work and study, Van loves watching tennis, playing chess, learning ukulele and traveling.

Van hopes to give back and apply her personal insights to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Smith College. She wants to make a lasting impact by leading initatives to help fellow Smithies acquire necessary skills in a time that calls for innovation.

= <span style="font-size:large">Related Links</span><br/> =

University Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College Smith College]

Priorities Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College_Student_Priorities Smith College Student Priorities]
<div>
Other Smith College UIF Fellows:

{| style="width: 500px" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
|-
| '''UIF Launch Term'''
| '''Student Name and Bio'''
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Jessica%20Innis Jessica Innis ]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Amanda%20Lavond Amanda Lavond]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Lingxuan%20Li Lingxuan Li ]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Mandira%20Marambe Mandira Marambe ]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Feiden Lisa Feiden]<br/>
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Van%20nguyen Van Nguyen]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]
|}
</div>
[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T01:30:58Z

Van Nguyen:

Van is one of the five University Innovation Fellows at Smith College. She is currently a senior pursuing double major in Economics and Computer Science with a concentration in Global Financial Institutions. On campus, Van works at Lazarus Center for Career Development as a Peer Advisor and Center for Media Production as a Technology Consultant. She is also an Economics Teaching Assistant, student liaison at the Statistical & Data Sciences Department, and Vice President of Smith College Consulting Club.

Van has previous work experience in data management, research and investment banking. She is very interested in using business and quantitative skills as well as the design thinking approach to solve problems, especially in the field of technology and finance. Outside work and study, Van loves watching tennis, playing chess, learning ukulele and traveling.

Van hopes to give back and apply her personal insights to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Smith College. She wants to make a lasting impact by leading initatives to help fellow Smithies acquire necessary skills in a time that calls for innovation.

= <span style="font-size:large">Related Links</span><br/> =

University Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College Smith College]

Priorities Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College_Student_Priorities Smith College Student Priorities]

Submission Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJPG9ljzxdXhCrwOTCUb4a1Mi2UvGBK5T [1]]
<div>
Other Smith College UIF Fellows:

{| style="width: 500px" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
|-
| '''UIF Launch Term'''
| '''Student Name and Bio'''
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Jessica%20Innis Jessica Innis ]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Amanda%20Lavond Amanda Lavond]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Lingxuan%20Li Lingxuan Li ]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Mandira%20Marambe Mandira Marambe ]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Feiden Lisa Feiden]<br/>
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Van%20nguyen Van Nguyen]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]
|}
</div>
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

Fellow:Lisa Feiden

2017-10-20T01:29:32Z

Van Nguyen:

[[File:Lisa Feiden.jpeg|thumb]]

Lisa Feiden is a University Innovation Fellows Candidate and working towards her Bachelors of Science in Engineering Science at [[Smith College|Smith College]].  While her school has a general engineering degree, she is drawn to mechanical, aerospace, and acoustic engineering.  This past summer, Lisa interned at NASA Ames in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory working on an aeroacoustics project to attenuate acoustic reflections in wind tunnels for beamforming using optical visualization techniques.
<div>Outside of engineering, Lisa loves to do some sort of movement.  Through the years, this has been gymnastics, acrobatics, modern, ballet, jazz, lyrical, circus, and Middle Eastern dance.  In recent years, she specialized in Latin ballroom dance through the UMass Ballroom Dance Team and then at a studio in Connecticut where she competed at the pre-championship level.</div><div><br/></div><div>Lisa is passionate about inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers, especially young women and girls.  This has led her to many teaching and science outreach opportunities including a January-Term Teaching Fellowship, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (IGTED), Girls Leadership Academy Meetup (GLAM), and other short-term outreach events.</div><div><br/></div><div>Through attending a liberal arts college and seeing engineering through that lens, Lisa found that she was attracted to the creative aspects of the field.  She has taken multiple entrepreneurship classes (even one in Israel) and been a finalist in the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs.  Lisa is very interested in the design thinking approach to problem solving.</div><div><br/></div><div>
= Related Links<br/> =

University Page: [[Smith College|Smith College]]

Priorities Page: [[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith College Student Priorities]]

Submission Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJPG9ljzxdXhCrwOTCUb4a1Mi2UvGBK5T [1]]

Other Smith College UIF Fellows:

{| style="width: 500px" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
|-
| '''UIF Launch Term'''
| '''Student Name and Bio'''
|-
| Fall 2016
| [[Jessica Innis|Jessica Innis ]]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [[Amanda Lavond|Amanda Lavond]]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [[Lingxuan Li|Lingxuan Li ]]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [[Mandira Marambe|Mandira Marambe ]]
|-
| Fall 2016
| [[Yi Wang|Yi Wang]]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [[Nybria Acklin|Nybria Acklin]]
|-
| Fall 2017
| '''Lisa Feiden'''
|-
| Fall 2017
| [[LUCY KNEISSLER|Lucy Kneissler]]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [[Van nguyen|Van Nguyen]]
|-
| Fall 2017
| [[Haven Sandoval|Haven Sandoval]]
|}
</div>
[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T01:01:48Z

Van Nguyen:

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T01:01:37Z

Van Nguyen:

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T01:01:21Z

Van Nguyen:

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T01:00:58Z

Van Nguyen:

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T01:00:32Z

Van Nguyen:

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T00:59:42Z

Van Nguyen:

Van is one of the five University Innovation Fellows at Smith College. She is currently a senior pursuing double major in Economics and Computer Science with a concentration in Global Financial Institutions. On campus, Van works at Lazarus Center for Career Development as a Peer Advisor and Center for Media Production as a Technology Consultant. She is also an Economics Teaching Assistant, student liaison at the Statistical & Data Sciences Department, and Vice President of Smith College Consulting Club.

Van has previous work experience in data management, research and investment banking. She is very interested in using business and quantitative skills as well as the design thinking approach to solve problems, especially in the field of technology and finance. Outside work and study, Van loves watching tennis, playing chess, learning ukulele and traveling.

Van hopes to give back and apply her personal insights to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Smith College. She wants to make a lasting impact by leading initatives to help fellow Smithies acquire necessary skills in a time that calls for innovation.

= Related Links<br/> =

University Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College Smith College]

Priorities Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College_Student_Priorities Smith College Student Priorities]

Other UIF Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Feiden http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Feiden]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LUCY_KNEISSLER http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LUCY_KNEISSLER]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Haven_Sandoval http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Haven_Sandoval]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nybria_Acklin http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nybria_Acklin]

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T00:58:51Z

Van Nguyen:

Van is one of the five University Innovation Fellows at Smith College. She is currently a senior pursuing double major in Economics and Computer Science with a concentration in Global Financial Institutions. On campus, Van works at Lazarus Center for Career Development as a Peer Advisor and Center for Media Production as a Technology Consultant. She is also an Economics Teaching Assistant, student liaison at the Statistical & Data Sciences Department, and Vice President of Smith College Consulting Club.

Van has previous work experience in data management, research and investment banking. She is very interested in using business and quantitative skills as well as the design thinking approach to solve problems, especially in the field of technology and finance. Outside work and study, Van loves watching tennis, playing chess, learning ukulele and traveling.

Van hopes to give back and apply her personal insights to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Smith College. She wants to make a lasting impact by leading initatives to help fellow Smithies acquire necessary skills in a time that calls for innovation.

= Related Links<br/> =

University Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College]

Priorities Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College_Student_Priorities]

Other UIF Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Feiden http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Feiden]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LUCY_KNEISSLER http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LUCY_KNEISSLER]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Haven_Sandoval http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Haven_Sandoval]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nybria_Acklin http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nybria_Acklin]

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-10-20T00:58:07Z

Van Nguyen:

Van is one of the five University Innovation Fellows at Smith College. She is currently a senior pursuing double major in Economics and Computer Science with a concentration in Global Financial Institutions. On campus, Van works at Lazarus Center for Career Development as a Peer Advisor and Center for Media Production as a Technology Consultant. She is also an Economics Teaching Assistant, student liaison at the Statistical & Data Sciences Department, and Vice President of Smith College Consulting Club.

Van has previous work experience in data management, research and investment banking. She is very interested in using business and quantitative skills as well as the design thinking approach to solve problems, especially in the field of technology and finance. Outside work and study, Van loves watching tennis, playing chess, learning ukulele and traveling.

Van hopes to give back and apply her personal insights to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Smith College. She wants to make a lasting impact by leading initatives to help fellow Smithies acquire necessary skills in a time that calls for innovation.

= Related Links<br/> =

University Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College]

Priorities Page: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Smith_College_Student_Priorities]

Other UIF Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Feiden]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LUCY_KNEISSLER http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LUCY_KNEISSLER]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Haven_Sandoval http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Haven_Sandoval]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nybria_Acklin http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nybria_Acklin]

Fellow:Ashley Switalski

2017-10-20T00:53:46Z

Van Nguyen:

Ashley Switalski is a University Innovation Fellow from Kettering University in Flint, MI. She is currently a Senior II studying for her B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a Course of Study in Innovation to Entrepreneurship. Kettering University operates on a rotating three month basis between co-op and academic terms which allows students to graduate with 2.5 years of work experience. Ashley has worked for a variety of companies with focuses in biologic applications for plastic materials to biofermentation in agricultural products. 

[[File:Ashley Switalski.jpeg|thumb|Ashley Switalski.jpeg]]

At Kettering University, Ashley is involved with Kettering Entrepreneur Society (KES), Kettering Student Government (KSG), and Student Alumni Council (SAC). Kettering has become a second home for Ashley and it is rare not to catch her at an event on campus. She also spends her free time playing intramural sports with FIJI fraternity and working on miscellaneous projects in the university's t.space. Most recently she has been part of starting up the first professional co-ed fraternity on campus, Alpha Chi Sigma, which is focused on promoting the sciences in academia and industry.

One of her core I&E projects on campus is pushing for an adaptive technical elective system which would allow students to earn credits in various "pop-up" classes. This would allow students to explore topics outside of their primary major without being inhibited by workload or scheduling conflicts. Additionally, she has started discussions with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Kettering about renovating an empty office space into a new maker space for the campus.

Known for being meticulous and well organized, her calendar is always kept up to date with peak operating hours between 10:00pm and 2:00am. As an unconventional chemical engineering student, she loves to share her story with young women interested in STEM and was one of the panel speakers for Michigan's Tech Savvy event. At work she has been a Science Ambassador for Dow AgroSciences and is an active Women Innovation Network (WIN) collegiate member at Dow Chemical.

In the next few years, she hopes to pursue a PhD in Biochemical Engineering and gain her private pilot's license. Learning opportunities are a key part of Ashley's life and she looks forward to making an impact on Kettering University's campus.

Feel free to contact Ashley at swit0249@kettering.edu.

= Related Links<br/> =

University Page: [[Kettering University]]

Priorities Page: [[Kettering University Student Priorities]]

Submission Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgVGRb7pVqXsHOhGEcdcGaw [1]]

Other Kettering UIF Fellows:

{| style="width: 500px" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
|-
| '''UIF Launch Term'''
| '''Student Name and Bio'''
| '''Kettering Academic Section'''
|-
| Spring 2017
| [[Chelsea Carter|Chelsea Carter]]
| A-Section
|-
| Spring 2017
| [[Eric Rickabaugh|Eric Rickabaugh]]
| A-Section
|-
| Spring 2017
| '''Ashley Switalski'''
| B-Section
|-
| Spring 2017
| [[Shane Thiede|Shane Thiede]]
| B-Section
|-
| Spring 2016
| [[Moe Ghias|Moe Ghias]]
| A-Section
|-
| Spring 2016
| [[Jace C. Stokes|Jace C. Stokes]]
| A-Section
|-
| Spring 2015
| [[Cheyne Westerman|Cheyne Westerman]]
| A-Section
|-
| Spring 2015
| [[Alan Xia|Alan Xia]]
| A-Section
|-
| Spring 2014
| [[Hunter Casbeer|Hunter Casbeer]]
| A-Section
|-
| Spring 2014
| [[Saheb Kapoor|Saheb Kapoor]]
| A-Section
|}

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Resource:How to tailor your makerspace to engage the unique interests of your student community

2017-09-30T03:40:07Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:larger">Introduction</span><br/> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Makerspaces are designed to encourage collaboration between students of different career paths to develop innovative new ideas or products, usually by using equipment available within the room. Developing and improving a makerspace typically requires setting a goal, determining logistical restraints, and implementing a plan to involve as much student creativity as possible. In our interview with Ann Delaney of Boise State University, we obtained valuable input on how to improve these spaces in our communities and on the importance of making people comfortable in them. This wiki provides a useful starting guide on how to tailor a makerspace to engage the unique interests of a student community.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Goal Setting</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">The initial vision is of a shared, interdisciplinary space where people of different majors can collaborate and make ideas come to life. This involves trying and failing in a low-risk environment. Diversity allows healthily bringing together varied perspectives for better, novel solutions to problems. A centralized maker space can link together people who otherwise might not have met, and from that connection bring synergy, unique solutions, and exciting projects to a frequented innovation space. Training is not exclusive to the equipment in question; 25% of the work may be directly involving the tool while the rest is general peer-to-peer training.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Assessing Logistics</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Determine what location is best for the makerspace. If a space already exists for it, that is not optimal. It is worth considering a pass, as long as it is an upgrade. The library provides an ideal, central location on Boise’s campus. This allows students to come to an open work environment in a comfortable place. Theirs was initially a small room with low power supply built originally for a different purpose. They developed it to become the room with best Internet connection on campus.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Supplies are another important aspect to assess. Funding begins with comfortable furniture and a computer with useful programs and works up to advanced equipment such as resin-based printers and CNC mill. At Boise, they began with Reprap printers but progressed to newer, easier-to-assemble Lulzbot printers next. They covered the walls with whiteboard paint and even green-screen paint---two of the strongest draws for students of different interests or organizations. In addition, they added a soldering station for electronics, a couch area, studying tables, library equipment, and course-specific equipment for their College of Innovation and Design.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Even without these expensive materials, a vibrant community with a strong maker culture will keep people coming and gathering there. Workshops are an important draw for people on campus. At Boise, they held special workshops focused on Arduinos, knitting, women’s night, plus general active outreach. This encourages people to find time to join the makerspace for special events and also learn practical skills.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Assessing obstacles is a key to avoiding hold-ups in the future. Inter-departmental politics, space concerns, and budget concerns are examples of some obstacles that they faced at Boise. To overcome, they looked at the Vertically Integrated Project program and various grants to bring in funding. It is important to let administration and the greater public see the success of the makerspace, through videos, tours, and stories of students and their projects.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Involving Students</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Student leaders are necessary if the makerspace is to run smoothly. At Boise they’re considering a new group of VIPs; students who get credit for the time they put in there. A diverse group of students from a variety of majors bring valuable new viewpoints to common projects. A combination of special note is engineering and business students, as they often lead to successful entrepreneurial ventures.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">To help create an inviting environment, it is vital to train every user of the makerspace how to reach out and welcome newcomers. A positive first impression can make all the difference for new students who want to see what the maker culture is all about.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">At Boise, as people enter the library’s door, they face an interdisciplinary space where students train others how to use 3D printers and other creative technologies. The focus is to make new students feel that they have freedom of expression. The importance of having this space is to provide students with an atmosphere where they can come up with creative solutions to working with others.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Students today focus too much on their grades, so we learned that it’s important to “frame the discussion in terms of skill building and marketability." By approaching students early and letting them see the benefits of working with people from other disciplines, they surely become more interested in what these amazing spaces can offer them.</span>

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[[Category:Guides]]

Resource:How to tailor your makerspace to engage the unique interests of your student community

2017-09-30T03:36:09Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:larger">Introduction</span><br/> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Makerspaces are designed to encourage collaboration between students of different career paths to develop innovative new ideas or products, usually by using equipment available within the room. Developing and improving a makerspace typically requires setting a goal, determining logistical restraints, and implementing a plan to involve as much student creativity as possible. In our interview with Ann Delaney of Boise State University, we obtained valuable input on how to improve these spaces in our communities and on the importance of making people comfortable in them. This wiki provides a useful starting guide on how to tailor a makerspace to engage the unique interests of a student community.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Goal Setting</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">The initial vision is of a shared, interdisciplinary space where people of different majors can collaborate and make ideas come to life. This involves trying and failing in a low-risk environment. Diversity allows healthily bringing together varied perspectives for better, novel solutions to problems. A centralized maker space can link together people who otherwise might not have met, and from that connection bring synergy, unique solutions, and exciting projects to a frequented innovation space. Training is not exclusive to the equipment in question; 25% of the work may be directly involving the tool while the rest is general peer-to-peer training.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Assessing Logistics</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Determine what location is best for the makerspace. If a space already exists for it that is not optimal it is worth considering a move, as long as it is an upgrade. The library provided an ideal, central location on Boise’s campus. This allowed students to come in to an open work environment in a comfortable place. Theirs was initially a small room with low power supply built originally for a different purpose. They developed it to become the room with best internet connectivity on campus.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Supplies are another important aspect to assess. Funding begins with comfortable furniture and a computer with useful programs and works up to advanced equipment like resin-based printers and CNC mill. At Boise they began with Reprap printers but progressed to newer, easier-to-assemble Lulzbot printers next. They covered the walls with whiteboard paint and even green-screen paint---two of the strongest draws for students of differing interests or from other organizations. In addition, they added a soldering station for electronics, a couch area, studying tables, library equipment, and course-specific equipment for their College of Innovation and Design.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Even without these expensive materials, a vibrant community with a strong maker culture will keep people coming and gathering there.Workshops are an important draw for people on campus. At Boise they held special workshops focused on Arduinos, knitting, women’s night, plus general active outreach. This encourages people to find time to join the makerspace for special events and also learn practical skills.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Assessing obstacles is a key to avoiding hold-ups in the future. Inter-departmental politics, space concerns, and budget concerns are examples of some obstacles that they faced at Boise. To overcome them, they looked atthe Vertically Integrated Project program and various grants to bring in funding. It was important to let administration and the greater public see the success of the makerspace, through videos, tours, and stories of students and their projects.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Involving Students</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Student leaders are necessary if the makerspace is to run smoothly. At Boise they’re considering a new group of VIPs; students who get credit for the time they put in there. A diverse group of students from a variety of majors bring valuable new viewpoints to common projects. A combination of special note is engineering and business students, as they often lead to successful entrepreneurial ventures.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">To help create an inviting environment, it is vital to train every user of the makerspace how to reach out and welcome newcomers. A positive first impression can make all the difference for new students who want to see what the maker culture is all about.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">At Boise, as people enter the library’s door, they face an interdisciplinary space where students train others how to use 3D printers and other creative technologies. The focus is to make new students feel that they have freedom of expression. The importance of having this space is to provide students with an atmosphere where they can come up with creative solutions to working with others.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Students today focus too much on their grades, so we learned that it’s important to “frame the discussion in terms of skill building and marketability." By approaching students early and letting them see the benefits of working with people from other disciplines, they surely become more interested in what these amazing spaces can offer them.</span>

<p style="text-align: justify">'''<span style="font-size:medium"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">Written By:</span></font></span>'''</p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:larger">[[Reynaldo Duran|Reynaldo Duran]]</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Nicole Pollak</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify">[[Timothy Straus|<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Timothy Straus</span></span>]]</p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Ted Zipoy</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:medium">[[Van nguyen|Van Nguyen]]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify"></p>
[[Category:Guides]]

Resource:How to tailor your makerspace to engage the unique interests of your student community

2017-09-30T03:35:39Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:larger">Introduction</span><br/> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Makerspaces are designed to encourage collaboration between students of different career paths to develop innovative new ideas or products, usually by using equipment available within the room. Developing and improving a makerspace typically requires setting a goal, determining logistical restraints, and implementing a plan to involve as much student creativity as possible. In our interview with Ann Delaney of Boise State University, we obtained valuable input on how to improve these spaces in our communities and on the importance of making people comfortable in them. This wiki provides a useful starting guide on how to tailor a makerspace to engage the unique interests of a student community.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Goal Setting</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">The initial vision is of a shared, interdisciplinary space where people of different majors can collaborate and make ideas come to life. This involves trying and failing in a low-risk environment. Diversity allows healthily bringing together varied perspectives for better, novel solutions to problems. A centralized maker space can link together people who otherwise might not have met, and from that connection bring synergy, unique solutions, and exciting projects to a frequented innovation space. Training is not exclusive to the equipment in question; 25% of the work may be directly involving the tool while the rest is general peer-to-peer training.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Assessing Logistics</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Determine what location is best for the makerspace. If a space already exists for it that is not optimal it is worth considering a move, as long as it is an upgrade. The library provided an ideal, central location on Boise’s campus. This allowed students to come in to an open work environment in a comfortable place. Theirs was initially a small room with low power supply built originally for a different purpose. They developed it to become the room with best internet connectivity on campus.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Supplies are another important aspect to assess. Funding begins with comfortable furniture and a computer with useful programs and works up to advanced equipment like resin-based printers and CNC mill. At Boise they began with Reprap printers but progressed to newer, easier-to-assemble Lulzbot printers next. They covered the walls with whiteboard paint and even green-screen paint---two of the strongest draws for students of differing interests or from other organizations. In addition, they added a soldering station for electronics, a couch area, studying tables, library equipment, and course-specific equipment for their College of Innovation and Design.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Even without these expensive materials, a vibrant community with a strong maker culture will keep people coming and gathering there.Workshops are an important draw for people on campus. At Boise they held special workshops focused on Arduinos, knitting, women’s night, plus general active outreach. This encourages people to find time to join the makerspace for special events and also learn practical skills.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Assessing obstacles is a key to avoiding hold-ups in the future. Inter-departmental politics, space concerns, and budget concerns are examples of some obstacles that they faced at Boise. To overcome them, they looked atthe Vertically Integrated Project program and various grants to bring in funding. It was important to let administration and the greater public see the success of the makerspace, through videos, tours, and stories of students and their projects.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Involving Students</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Student leaders are necessary if the makerspace is to run smoothly. At Boise they’re considering a new group of VIPs; students who get credit for the time they put in there. A diverse group of students from a variety of majors bring valuable new viewpoints to common projects. A combination of special note is engineering and business students, as they often lead to successful entrepreneurial ventures.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">To help create an inviting environment, it is vital to train every user of the makerspace how to reach out and welcome newcomers. A positive first impression can make all the difference for new students who want to see what the maker culture is all about.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">At Boise, as people enter the library’s door, they face an interdisciplinary space where students train others how to use 3D printers and other creative technologies. The focus is to make new students feel that they have freedom of expression. The importance of having this space is to provide students with an atmosphere where they can come up with creative solutions to working with others.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Students today focus too much on their grades, so we learned that it’s important to “frame the discussion in terms of skill building and marketability." By approaching students early and letting them see the benefits of working with people from other disciplines, they surely become more interested in what these amazing spaces can offer them.</span>

<p style="text-align: justify">'''<span style="font-size:medium"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">Written By:</span></font></span>'''</p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:larger">[[Reynaldo Duran|Reynaldo Duran]]</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Nicole Pollak</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify">[[Timothy Straus|<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Timothy Straus</span></span>]]</p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Ted Zipoy</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify">[[Van_nguyen|Van Nguyen]]</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify"></p>
[[Category:Guides]]

Resource:How to tailor your makerspace to engage the unique interests of your student community

2017-09-30T03:35:03Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:larger">Introduction</span><br/> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Makerspaces are designed to encourage collaboration between students of different career paths to develop innovative new ideas or products, usually by using equipment available within the room. Developing and improving a makerspace typically requires setting a goal, determining logistical restraints, and implementing a plan to involve as much student creativity as possible. In our interview with Ann Delaney of Boise State University, we obtained valuable input on how to improve these spaces in our communities and on the importance of making people comfortable in them. This wiki provides a useful starting guide on how to tailor a makerspace to engage the unique interests of a student community.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Goal Setting</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">The initial vision is of a shared, interdisciplinary space where people of different majors can collaborate and make ideas come to life. This involves trying and failing in a low-risk environment. Diversity allows healthily bringing together varied perspectives for better, novel solutions to problems. A centralized maker space can link together people who otherwise might not have met, and from that connection bring synergy, unique solutions, and exciting projects to a frequented innovation space. Training is not exclusive to the equipment in question; 25% of the work may be directly involving the tool while the rest is general peer-to-peer training.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Assessing Logistics</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Determine what location is best for the makerspace. If a space already exists for it that is not optimal it is worth considering a move, as long as it is an upgrade. The library provided an ideal, central location on Boise’s campus. This allowed students to come in to an open work environment in a comfortable place. Theirs was initially a small room with low power supply built originally for a different purpose. They developed it to become the room with best internet connectivity on campus.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Supplies are another important aspect to assess. Funding begins with comfortable furniture and a computer with useful programs and works up to advanced equipment like resin-based printers and CNC mill. At Boise they began with Reprap printers but progressed to newer, easier-to-assemble Lulzbot printers next. They covered the walls with whiteboard paint and even green-screen paint---two of the strongest draws for students of differing interests or from other organizations. In addition, they added a soldering station for electronics, a couch area, studying tables, library equipment, and course-specific equipment for their College of Innovation and Design.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Even without these expensive materials, a vibrant community with a strong maker culture will keep people coming and gathering there.Workshops are an important draw for people on campus. At Boise they held special workshops focused on Arduinos, knitting, women’s night, plus general active outreach. This encourages people to find time to join the makerspace for special events and also learn practical skills.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Assessing obstacles is a key to avoiding hold-ups in the future. Inter-departmental politics, space concerns, and budget concerns are examples of some obstacles that they faced at Boise. To overcome them, they looked atthe Vertically Integrated Project program and various grants to bring in funding. It was important to let administration and the greater public see the success of the makerspace, through videos, tours, and stories of students and their projects.</span>

= <span style="font-size:larger">Involving Students</span> =

<span style="font-size:larger">Student leaders are necessary if the makerspace is to run smoothly. At Boise they’re considering a new group of VIPs; students who get credit for the time they put in there. A diverse group of students from a variety of majors bring valuable new viewpoints to common projects. A combination of special note is engineering and business students, as they often lead to successful entrepreneurial ventures.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">To help create an inviting environment, it is vital to train every user of the makerspace how to reach out and welcome newcomers. A positive first impression can make all the difference for new students who want to see what the maker culture is all about.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">At Boise, as people enter the library’s door, they face an interdisciplinary space where students train others how to use 3D printers and other creative technologies. The focus is to make new students feel that they have freedom of expression. The importance of having this space is to provide students with an atmosphere where they can come up with creative solutions to working with others.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger">Students today focus too much on their grades, so we learned that it’s important to “frame the discussion in terms of skill building and marketability." By approaching students early and letting them see the benefits of working with people from other disciplines, they surely become more interested in what these amazing spaces can offer them.</span>

<p style="text-align: justify">'''<span style="font-size:medium"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">Written By:</span></font></span>'''</p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:larger">[[Reynaldo Duran|Reynaldo Duran]]</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Nicole Pollak</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify">[[Timothy Straus|<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Timothy Straus</span></span>]]</p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Ted Zipoy</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen</span></span></span>]</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify"></p>
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Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-09-29T03:44:59Z

Van Nguyen:

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-09-29T03:44:00Z

Van Nguyen:

Van is one of the five University Innovation Fellows at Smith College. She is currently a senior pursuing double major in Economics and Computer Science with a concentrati[[File:]]on in Global Financial Institutions. On campus, Van works at Lazarus Cente[[File:]]r for Career Development as a Peer Advisor and Center for Media Production as a Technology Consultant. She is also an Economics Teaching Assistant and student liaison at the Statistical & Data Sciences Department.

Van has previous work experience in data management, research and investment banking. She is very interested in using business and quantitative skills as well as the design thinking approach to solve problems, especially in the field of technology and finance. Outside work and study, Van loves watching tennis, playing chess, learning ukulele and traveling.

Van hopes to give back and apply her personal insights to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Smith College. She wants to make a lasting impact by leading initatives to help fellow Smithies acquire necessary skills in a time that calls for innovation.

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-09-29T03:43:16Z

Van Nguyen:

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T03:42:05Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font><br/> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human-centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among students and faculty</span><br/> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovation Library</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library has an idea board that includes some thought-provoking questions such as “What’s on your mind?”, “What keeps you up at night?”, “What’s the one thing you want to change at Smith?” Students and faculty members can post sticky notes with their thoughts anytime. There is a special prompt on the idea board every other week, and the person who suggests the best answer, voted by the Smith community, will receive 5$ Campus Center/ Grecourt Bookshop gift card.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library also has small maker-space and short coffee-break sessions with discussions / talks about I&E, design thinking and other issues on campus. There are posters and flyers around the library, and there are bookmarks that advertise I&E resources. The wordings in the bookmarks are tailored to academic fields so that students will respond better to those opportunities.</span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces</span></span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

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[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

<span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''</span>
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:'''</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
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Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T03:41:44Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font><br/> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human-centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among students and faculty</span><br/> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovation Library</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library has an idea board that includes some thought-provoking questions such as “What’s on your mind?”, “What keeps you up at night?”, “What’s the one thing you want to change at Smith?” Students and faculty members can post sticky notes with their thoughts anytime. There is a special prompt on the idea board every other week, and the person who suggests the best answer, voted by the Smith community, will receive 5$ Campus Center/ Grecourt Bookshop gift card.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library also has small maker-space and short coffee-break sessions with discussions / talks about I&E, design thinking and other issues on campus. There are posters and flyers around the library, and there are bookmarks that advertise I&E resources. The wordings in the bookmarks are tailored to academic fields so that students will respond better to those opportunities.</span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Project Pitch Video</span></span></span><br/> =

[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

<span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''</span>
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:'''</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
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Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T03:41:34Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font><br/> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human-centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among students and faculty</span><br/> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovation Library</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library has an idea board that includes some thought-provoking questions such as “What’s on your mind?”, “What keeps you up at night?”, “What’s the one thing you want to change at Smith?” Students and faculty members can post sticky notes with their thoughts anytime. There is a special prompt on the idea board every other week, and the person who suggests the best answer, voted by the Smith community, will receive 5$ Campus Center/ Grecourt Bookshop gift card.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library also has small maker-space and short coffee-break sessions with discussions / talks about I&E, design thinking and other issues on campus. There are posters and flyers around the library, and there are bookmarks that advertise I&E resources. The wordings in the bookmarks are tailored to academic fields so that students will respond better to those opportunities.</span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Project Pitch Video</span></span></span><br/> =

[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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<span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''</span>
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:'''</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
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Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T03:41:08Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font><br/> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human-centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among students and faculty</span><br/> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovation Library:</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library has an idea board that includes some thought-provoking questions such as “What’s on your mind?”, “What keeps you up at night?”, “What’s the one thing you want to change at Smith?” Students and faculty members can post sticky notes with their thoughts anytime. There is a special prompt on the idea board every other week, and the person who suggests the best answer, voted by the Smith community, will receive 5$ Campus Center/ Grecourt Bookshop gift card.</span><br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library also has small maker-space and short coffee-break sessions with discussions / talks about I&E, design thinking and other issues on campus. There are posters and flyers around the library, and there are bookmarks that advertise I&E resources. The wordings in the bookmarks are tailored to academic fields so that students will respond better to those opportunities.</span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

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[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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<span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''</span>
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:'''</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
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Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T02:54:57Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font><br/> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human-centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among students and faculty</span><br/> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span><br/> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovation Library:</span></span><br/> ===

<span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap"></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library has an idea board that includes some thought-provoking questions such as “What’s on your mind?”, “What keeps you up at night?”, “What’s the one thing you want to change at Smith?” Students and faculty members can post sticky notes with their thoughts anytime. There is a special prompt on the idea board every other week, and the person who suggests the best answer, voted by the Smith community, will receive 5$ Campus Center/ Grecourt Bookshop gift card.</span>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library also has small maker-space and short coffee-break sessions with discussions / talks about I&E, design thinking and other issues on campus. There are posters and flyers around the library, and there are bookmarks that advertise I&E resources. The wordings in the bookmarks are tailored to academic fields so that students will respond better to those opportunities.</span>

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== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Project Pitch Video</span></span></span><br/> =

[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

<span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''</span>
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:'''</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
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Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T02:17:58Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font><br/> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human-centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty</span> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Project Pitch Video</span></span></span><br/> =

[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128)">Related Links:</span></span> =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

<span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''</span>
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:'''</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
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Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T02:17:05Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:larger"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font><br/> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed Issue: The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human- centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty</span> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

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[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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<span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''</span>
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:medium">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:'''</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
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Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T02:16:20Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia,serif">Overview</span></span><br/> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for Change</span></span></span><br/> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font><br/> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed Issue: The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human- centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty</span> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Project Pitch Video</span></span></span> =

[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128)">Related Links:</span></span> =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

<span style="font-size:small">'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''</span>
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</span>'''<br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T02:14:50Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium">Overview</span> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for change</span></span></span> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed Issue: The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human- centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty</span> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Project Pitch Video</span></span></span> =

[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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= <span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128)">Related Links:</span></span> =

[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Priorities:Smith College Student Priorities

2017-09-29T02:13:57Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium">Overview</span> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.</span></span></span>

= <span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap">Strategies for change</span></span></span> =

== <span style="font-size:large"><span style="color:#696969"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields</span></span></span></span><br/> ==

=== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#434343"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap">Transdiciplinary Action</span></font> ===

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could be of use in I&E culture.</span></font>

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.</span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Maker Market</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.</span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proposed Issue: The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors<br/>Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world<br/>Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in the world of I & E talk about why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E<br/>Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<br/>Workshops: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human- centered designs)<br/>Design Thinking for Humanities majors</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(105, 105, 105)">Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures</span> ==

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovators’ Mentorship Program</span></span></span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty</span> ==

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==

<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap">The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.</span></font>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Pop-up Study Spaces:</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).</span></span></span>

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[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]
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[[Smith College|Smith_College]]

'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''
<div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen <span style="font-size: small;">Van Nguyen</span>]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
[[Category:Student Priorities|s]]

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-09-29T02:12:17Z

Van Nguyen:

Fellow:Van Nguyen

2017-09-29T02:11:41Z

Van Nguyen:

School:Smith College

2017-09-29T00:40:22Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Campus Overview</span></span></span></span> =

<span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> ==

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap">Economics professor Mahnaz Madavi established the Center for Women & Financial Independence. Since then, s</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">tudent innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College began gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has at least nine courses and seven workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, previously the Center for Women & Financial Independence, works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures through classes, workshops, as well as competitions. Every year, the school hosts the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs, which is open to students nationwide. Smith College has a Design Thinking Initiative that holds workshops, a makerspace, a prototyping studio, and classes, open to students from all majors and class years.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging innovation and entrepreneurship culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating university-industry collaboration</span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:small">Smith College has connections with local and regional accelerators and other funding sources.  Valley Venture Mentors, whose CEO is a Smith Alumna, recently launched a Collgiate Accelerator Program, which gives students the opportunity to develop their business ideas through the mentorship of local entrepreneurs. In the summer of 2017, two Smith students developed their ventures through this program.  Smith College has recently forged a connection with AmherstWorks, a space that promotes entrepreneurial ventures.</span>

== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Landscape Canvas 2017 </span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pRY2q8_eorZsN2aMIfgA799UGFQ6JZPYXyof1zRFzFA/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2017]</span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">'''Landscape Canvas 2016 '''</span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2016]</span>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
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[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College Student Priorities]]

<div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Lisa Feiden|Lisa Feiden]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Nybria Acklin|Nybria Acklin]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[LUCY KNEISSLER|Lucy Kneissler]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Haven Sandoval|Haven Sandoval]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen Van Nguyen]<br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2017-09-29T00:39:18Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Campus Overview</span></span></span></span> =

<span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> ==

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap">Economics professor Mahnaz Madavi established the Center for Women & Financial Independence. Since then, s</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">tudent innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College began gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has at least nine courses and seven workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, previously the Center for Women & Financial Independence, works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures through classes, workshops, as well as competitions. Every year, the school hosts the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs, which is open to students nationwide. Smith College has a Design Thinking Initiative that holds workshops, a makerspace, a prototyping studio, and classes, open to students from all majors and class years.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging innovation and entrepreneurship culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating university-industry collaboration</span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:small">Smith College has connections with local and regional accelerators and other funding sources.  Valley Venture Mentors, whose CEO is a Smith Alumna, recently launched a Collgiate Accelerator Program, which gives students the opportunity to develop their business ideas through the mentorship of local entrepreneurs. In the summer of 2017, two Smith students developed their ventures through this program.  Smith College has recently forged a connection with AmherstWorks, a space that promotes entrepreneurial ventures.</span>

== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Landscape Canvas 2017 </span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pRY2q8_eorZsN2aMIfgA799UGFQ6JZPYXyof1zRFzFA/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2017]</span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">'''Landscape Canvas 2016 '''</span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2016]</span>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
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[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College Student Priorities]]

<div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Lisa Feiden|Lisa Feiden]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Nybria Acklin|Nybria Acklin]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[LUCY KNEISSLER|Lucy Kneissler]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Haven Sandoval|Haven Sandoval]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen<br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2017-09-29T00:38:32Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Campus Overview</span></span></span></span> =

<span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> ==

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap">Economics professor Mahnaz Madavi established the Center for Women & Financial Independence. Since then, s</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">tudent innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College began gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has at least nine courses and seven workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, previously the Center for Women & Financial Independence, works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures through classes, workshops, as well as competitions. Every year, the school hosts the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs, which is open to students nationwide. Smith College has a Design Thinking Initiative that holds workshops, a makerspace, a prototyping studio, and classes, open to students from all majors and class years.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging innovation and entrepreneurship culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating university-industry collaboration</span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:small">Smith College has connections with local and regional accelerators and other funding sources.  Valley Venture Mentors, whose CEO is a Smith Alumna, recently launched a Collgiate Accelerator Program, which gives students the opportunity to develop their business ideas through the mentorship of local entrepreneurs. In the summer of 2017, two Smith students developed their ventures through this program.  Smith College has recently forged a connection with AmherstWorks, a space that promotes entrepreneurial ventures.</span>

== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Landscape Canvas 2017 </span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pRY2q8_eorZsN2aMIfgA799UGFQ6JZPYXyof1zRFzFA/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2017]</span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">'''Landscape Canvas 2016 '''</span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2016]</span>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
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[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College Student Priorities]]

<div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Lisa Feiden|Lisa Feiden]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Nybria Acklin|Nybria Acklin]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[LUCY KNEISSLER|Lucy Kneissler]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Haven Sandoval|Haven Sandoval]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[[Van_Nguyen|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen]]<br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
[[Category:Universities|s]]

School:Smith College

2017-09-29T00:38:05Z

Van Nguyen:

= <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Campus Overview</span></span></span></span> =

<span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Smith College is private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the college is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> ==

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap">Economics professor Mahnaz Madavi established the Center for Women & Financial Independence. Since then, s</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">tudent innovation and entrepreneurship at Smith College began gaining momentum in both available resources and demonstrated student interest. Smith has at least nine courses and seven workshops, both interdepartmental and department-specific, that introduce the concepts of design thinking and entrepreneurship, allow students to use and experiment with these tools in hands-on settings, and build their creative confidence.  These curricular resources are supplemented by other extra-curricular opportunities such as various conferences, competitions, and student organizations that allow students to gain further exposure and enrich their innovative experiences. The recently established Conway Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, previously the Center for Women & Financial Independence, works hard to inspire and encourage students to engage in innovative ventures through classes, workshops, as well as competitions. Every year, the school hosts the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs, which is open to students nationwide. Smith College has a Design Thinking Initiative that holds workshops, a makerspace, a prototyping studio, and classes, open to students from all majors and class years.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging innovation and entrepreneurship culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating university-industry collaboration</span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.</span></span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:small">Smith College has connections with local and regional accelerators and other funding sources.  Valley Venture Mentors, whose CEO is a Smith Alumna, recently launched a Collgiate Accelerator Program, which gives students the opportunity to develop their business ideas through the mentorship of local entrepreneurs. In the summer of 2017, two Smith students developed their ventures through this program.  Smith College has recently forged a connection with AmherstWorks, a space that promotes entrepreneurial ventures.</span>

== <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Landscape Canvas 2017 </span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pRY2q8_eorZsN2aMIfgA799UGFQ6JZPYXyof1zRFzFA/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2017]</span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">'''Landscape Canvas 2016 '''</span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THca2-u_A2yefyuZjaGDe4R5LnZrAtAinNFkxj4A4fw/edit#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2016]</span>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Landscape Canvas Overview Slides 2016]</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
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[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College Student Priorities]]

<div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Lisa Feiden|Lisa Feiden]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Nybria Acklin|Nybria Acklin]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[LUCY KNEISSLER|Lucy Kneissler]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size:small">[[Haven Sandoval|Haven Sandoval]]</span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen]<br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">'''<span style="font-size: small">University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016</span>'''</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis] </span><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><br/></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"><span style="font-size: small">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</span></div>
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2017-09-29T00:33:03Z

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2017-09-27T02:27:44Z

Van Nguyen:

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User:Van Nguyen

2017-09-27T02:23:14Z

Van Nguyen:

Van Nguyen is one of the five University Innovation Fellows at Smith College. She is currently a senior pursuing double major in Economics and Computer Science. At Smith, she works at Lazarus Center for Career Development as a Peer Advisor and Center for Media Production as a Technology Consultant. She is also an Economics Teaching Assistant and student liaison at the Statistical & Data Science department.

Van has previous work experience in data management, research and investment banking. She is very interested in using business and quantitative skills as well as the design thinking approach to solve problems, especially in the field of technology and finance. Outside work and study, Van loves watching tennis, playing chess, traveling and learning ukulele.

User:Van Nguyen

2017-09-27T02:12:28Z

Van Nguyen:

Van Nguyen is