University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Priorities:Skidmore College Student Priorities

2015-10-26T13:32:03Z

Wstewarttennes:

= Project Pitch Video =

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=mjTkXFBfOuk}}
Student Priorities
 The Skidmore motto is “creative thought matters” and the students live and breathe that motto. The abundance of talent is apparent when walking through the campus and seeing the many performances and art and that liven up the community. The most inspiring element of Skidmore can be experienced when drifting through the common areas and listening to the sophisticated conversations. The students are vibrant with information, but there are more effective ways to excerpt the plentiful talent.

As a small liberal arts college and an early staged eco system, there are many possible methods to develop and grow I&E. Through research and analysing the landscape canvas, our most important discovery on achieving I&E is through interdisciplinary collaboration and integrative learning. The different methods to incite I&E may vary, but the culture grows around interdisciplinary collaboration and integrative learning. We will use these themes when developing our campus.

To provide departments the autonomy to collaborate, we think it is necessary to facilitate a collective space. When reflecting on the FORBES ranking, it sheds light on the lack resources of Skidmore as an emerging institution of I&E. In order to more effectively capitalise on this movement, Skidmore will need to adapt and grow.  In the next 2-3 years we would like to see the institution advance in two ways; facilities and the culture. These factors are interdependent as the facilities will grow in parallel with the culture. Ultimately, our strategy will create channels to develop and expose entrepreneurial endeavours and hopefully incite an I&E revolution. From our research, we are aware of effective Workshops/laboratories that provide a center for interdisciplinary collaboration at other institutions. With Skidmore’s unique criteria, we have devised ideas that cater specifically to Skidmore’s stakeholders and provide an effective center for I&E.

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Lab

The Innovation Lab is a student space that focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration, prototyping, and bringing ideas to life.  We want Skidmore students to be able to pursue any idea they have.  They shouldn’t have to be business or science majors in order to ideate, prototype, and build.

1) Get a group of stakeholders to officially be involved

2) Present to the stakeholders and get feedback; modify the plan

3) Have a completed plan that is ready for investors detailing:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>everything that would be needed to build the lab</li>
<li>all systems that would be built around the lab</li>
<li>how students would interact with the lab</li>
<li>proof of concept: statements from students who say they would use this space</li>
</ol>

4) Send the word out to alumni, donors, and other funding sources

5) Secure

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Virtual Innovation Lab

The Virtual Innovation Lab would either stand in place of the physical Innovation Lab or work alongside it.  The Virtual Innovation Lab would be an online spot for students to collaborate as well as showcase their work.  The collaboration would be accomplished by linking students from different disciplines.  Students could write about projects they are working on and find other students who can fill the gaps where needed.  The Virtual Lab would also be a place future Venture Capitalists and other potential investors could go to explore student projects and look for ventures to fund.  

In the same vein as our other projects, the virtual lab would be centered around interdisciplinary work.  It would notonly be open to science and business students looking to build new technology.  Artists, musicians, historians, english majors, dancers, education majors, economics majors, mathematics majors, psychologists, government majors, and more and more.  The list goes on and on and the number of ways different disciplines could collaborate is endless.  In the virtual lab you will see computer science majors mapping dance moves, theatre majors acting out the brain with neuroscience majors, and artists creating from biology.  

Milestones:

1) Put together a team of stakeholders to supervise, network, and build the project.

2) Bring the stakeholders together in order to finalize the plan and find new suggestions

3) Begin building the website

4) Start spreading the word and finding student ambassadors to be the first students involved

5)

6) Launch the website!

Annual Student Expo - “SKIDMORE, what do you do?”

The 1st Annual Student Expo would be a place where students could showcase their work in front of fellow students and faculty as well as potential investors.  The main goal of the expo would be to promote innovation on campus.  The idea is that other students would see the work of their fellow classmates displayed on the central quad and be inspired to pursue a project of their own.  Furthermore, monetary prizes would be awarded to the best entrants both as an incentive to participate and also as  a way to promote individual projects.  Entrants would have to specify what they would use the money for as part of their presentation.

The Student Expo would not be only for business and science students.  We want to promote innovation across disciplines and therefore plan to open the expo to artists, musicians, researchers, and anybody else who has exciting or innovative projects/ideas.  We want to promote shear creativity.

Milestones:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Gather faculty representatives from different departments -- October 16th, 2015</li>
<li>Hold a meeting, bringing these representatives together and present to them a formal plan for how this expo would come to life. -- Week of October 16th, 2015</li>
<li>Start planning!<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>begin to find investors/funders in order to fund the expo and the prize money</li>
<li>begin to narrow down a list of judges for the expo</li>
<li>contact alumni and begin</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Once we have funding, begin to promote the event and find students to participate</li>
<li>Put the show on</li>
</ol>

Collaborative Assignment

The college wide collaborative assignment would be a short 15 minute long article to read or video to watch with a one page response.

The idea behind a collective assignment is bringing the departments together. Everyone who chooses Skidmore has something in common because we all identify with the culture and see Skidmore as a stepping stone to our future. We all share commonalities, yet the day we arrive we are segmented into our prospective departments.

The goal for the collaborative assignment is focusing the collective attention to one specific topic. By assigning a short project we could have history majors exploring the same issues and topics as the biology and computer science majors. The collective assignment would do two things to stimulate innovation. First of all it would provide students with different majors a common subject or theme to talk about, debate and devise solutions. This would be a hugely powerful exercise as the common ground would be the formation of the interdisciplinary collaboration. Furthermore, it would provide a setting for the students to learn from each other. The second way this collective assignment would incite innovation is by creating a dialogue of an important issue. The short assignment would be thought provoking about a current affairs. The awareness of a new topic might encourage different majors to work together and create a solution. The assignment is a twofold project. The first part is simply the 15 minute assignment video/article and response. The second part would be an optional exercise for students to be awarded extra credit. The institution would provide extra credit for those students who collaborate and write paper/hold a presentation on how they could address the problem. The students might want to start a partition of signatures or hold an event to further spread awareness and address the problems brought up in the assignment. The main theme of this exercise would be to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and reward those who do. We are hopeful that aside from the institutional gains from this exercise, students may provide intelligent solutions to current problems and actually make a difference. We are hopeful that the larger community around us will gain from this exercise as well.

Milestones:

1)consult various department heads and get feedback

2) hold stakeholder meeting and formalise the event

3) notify students of the assignment and the goal of this project

4)Test the idea and receive feedback

5)adjust assignment according to step 4

6)Issue the first college wide assignment

 [[Skidmore College]]

Written by: [[Henry Cyprien Fabre|Henry Cyprien Fabre]],[[Weston Stewart-Tennes|Weston Stewart-Tennes]], [[Alexander Nassief|Alexander Nassif]] 

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

School:Skidmore College

2015-10-22T23:52:45Z

Wstewarttennes:

'''                                                                        ''''''Campus Overview'''     

'''Promoting Student I&E'''              

Though Forbes ranked Skidmore 7th place on its list “America’s Most Entrepreneurial Colleges,” student innovation & entrepreneurship (I&E) is still in an early stage. Through research, we’ve gathered insight on how to enhance and develop the integrative learning experience as well as expose students to an interdisciplinary environment. From our research, discussions with other fellows and observations of later staged eco-systems, we’ve focused a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and integrative learning for the highly effective results in academic institutions. Skidmore College currently offers Management and Business courses that engage students in I&E. Skidmore also provides an array of advanced courses such as MB 350 (Entrepreneurship and small Business) and MB 351(What’s the Big Idea?) which provide specific training on how to design, implement, and promote businesses. There are additional opportunities such as the Skidmore-Saratoga Consulting Partnership, which allow students the opportunity to apply entrepreneurial skills to local businesses. These classes and opportunities provide rudimental steps in design thinking, but when comparing our institution to others, there is a clear difference in development. We have conceptualized a few methods to advance I&E that cater to Skidmore’s specific criteria. The fist improvements could be realized by increasing exposure to design thinking and lean start-up business approaches. One method of adopting these approaches could be achieved by providing more opportunities to earn specialized certifications in entrepreneurship. An example of the positive effects of these opportunities and the effectiveness of extracurricular events can be witnessed at the Kenneth A. Freirich Business Plan Competition, The New York State Business Plan Competition and Start-up Weekend: Saratoga. As a single entity, Skidmore has gleaned recognition at these events for the high level of entrepreneurial aptitude of the students. That said, the culture of I&E is relatively low. We believe this is due to the limited facilities that enable students from multiple concentrates the ability to explore I&E. With the autonomy to explore curiosity, a culture around I&E will develop. We are confident that this will self-promote because when combining faculty expertise with student inquisition, academia is effectual.

'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''

Although there are innovators among the faculty, and Skidmore has a department of sponsored research for faculty, there is a disconnect between the institution, the students, and the greater community. We truly have brilliant professors, but most of their work goes unheard of. There is no integrative way a business major can gain insight from the science departments unless taking a class. By shifting this trend and publically exposing the incredible research, the connections between students and faculty would strengthen. Exposure to new research and new ideas would allow new channels of curiosity to flow and the culture to develop. We do have a number of professor’s who are bucking the trend. Professor Catherine Hill has been a major proponent of I&E and has greatly contributed to developing the facilities in parallel with the culture. Her most recent contribution is a website ([https://skidmoreentrepreneurs.wordpress.com/ https://skidmoreentrepreneurs.wordpress.com]) to promote entrepreneurship and expose the accolades and achievements of the students. A secondary purpose of the websites is to attract non-business majors. From our findings, attracting non-business majors will greatly assist in holistically developing the culture of I&E. In addition, non-business majors play an important role in achieving interdisciplinary collaboration.  

'''Actively Supporting The University Technology Transfer Process'''              

At Skidmore we have three main incubator spaces: the Kenneth A. Freirich Business Plan Competition (KFBPC), which hosts business plan writing workshops and arranges mentors for competition finalists; Accelerate518, which is a regionally focused support service from promising startups; and also Startup Weekend: Saratoga, which is open to anyone in Saratoga and allows groups to focus on different business ideas over the course of a weekend with a panel of judges who regularly check in and provide guidance as needed. In terms of seed funding initiatives: the KFBPC provides cash and in-kind services last valued at $60,000.00 - first place winner can win up to $20,000.00; while the Eastman Grant offers a $5,000.00 grant to a single venture every year. When it comes to student IP generation, students seek services outside the college. In terms of tech transfer specifics, Skidmore has a department of sponsored research, though that is predominantly available for faculty research rather than student ideation. '''Facilitating University-'''

'''Industry Collaboration'''

As Skidmore is a small early-staged ecosystem, we don’t have a graduate program with highly technical facilities. This is a larger driver of I&E in academic institutions, which is why it’s important we establish strong partnership programs with larger institutions in the region. The lack of communal facilities and training is crucial in the development of interdisciplinary collaboration and the ability to develop and capitalizing good ideas. We have focused our solutions on developing facilities because as mention before, the culture will grow around the collaboration, and collaboration needs autonomy. The Albany Suny Polytech nanoscale science institute is within range for direct partnership between the arts and sciences. We also partner with Dartmouth for their engineering program.

'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts.'''              

Despite Skidmore’s size, we are very integrated with the local community.  Countless classes partner with local organizations to teach, learn, and collaborate.  Some of the most prominent departments involved in these practices include education, business, economics, computer science, and environmental studies.  One of the best classes the business department offers is called Skidmore Saratoga Consulting Partnership (SSCP).  This class gives local organizations free consulting with Skidmore business students.  Not only does the advice help the organizations, but the students learn real world skills in the process.  While this collaboration is great, we want to build upon ideas like this, and focus on bringing the community and Skidmore together.  Another great partnership is within the education program.  While this is less innovation-based, we run a preschool on campus that uses volunteers from Skidmore student body to run.  Again, the community and Skidmore classes are brought together and both benefit. Our fellow students are extremely talented; each and every one brings something innovative and unique to the table.  We want part of our plans to include harnessing that energy and using it as a force for good in the neighbouring community.

Lanscape Spreadsheet: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E8j-R7rUq4q3Goi8F1v2JncEQWYU6xix_HivdDww1g0/edit#gid=5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E8j-R7rUq4q3Goi8F1v2JncEQWYU6xix_HivdDww1g0/edit#gid=5]

Landscape Canvas: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lmTIEyZ5RoXjOzKiJE7nmf5oKlEeYErL2ITbYQi74EY/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lmTIEyZ5RoXjOzKiJE7nmf5oKlEeYErL2ITbYQi74EY/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14]

Written by: [[Henry Cyprien Fabre|Henry Cyprien Fabre]], [[Weston Stewart-Tennes|Weston stewart-tennes]], [[Alexander Nassief|Alexander Nassief]]

School:Skidmore College

2015-10-22T23:51:12Z

Wstewarttennes:

'''                                                                        Campus Overview'''     '''Promoting Student I&E'''               Though Forbes ranked Skidmore 7th place on its list “America’s Most Entrepreneurial Colleges,” student innovation & entrepreneurship (I&E) is still in an early stage. Through research, we’ve gathered insight on how to enhance and develop the integrative learning experience as well as expose students to an interdisciplinary environment. From our research, discussions with other fellows and observations of later staged eco-systems, we’ve focused a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and integrative learning for the highly effective results in academic institutions. Skidmore College currently offers Management and Business courses that engages students in I&E. Skidmore also provides an array of advanced courses such as MB 350 (Entrepreneurship and small Business) and MB 351(What’s the Big Idea?) which provide specific training on how to design, implement, and promote businesses. There are additional opportunities such as the Skidmore-Saratoga Consulting Partnership, which allow students the opportunity to apply entrepreneurial skills to local businesses. These classes and opportunities provide rudimental steps in design thinking, but when comparing our institution to others, there is a clear difference in development. We have conceptualised a few methods to advance I&E that cater to Skidmore’s specific criteria. The fist improvements could be realized by increasing exposure to design thinking and lean start-up business approaches. One method of adopting these approaches could be achieved by providing more opportunities to earn specialized certifications in entrepreneurship. An example of the positive effects of these opportunities and the effectiveness of extracurricular events can be witnessed at the Kenneth A. Freirich Business Plan Competition, The New York State Business Plan Competition and Start-up Weekend: Saratoga. As a single entity, Skidmore has gleaned recognition at these events for the high level of entrepreneurial aptitude of the students. That said, the culture of I&E is relatively low. We believe this is due to the limited facilities that enable students from multiple concentrates the ability to explore I&E. With the autonomy to explore curiosity, a culture around I&E will develop. We are confident that this will self-promote because when combining faculty expertise with student inquisition, academia is effectual. '''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' Although there are innovators among the faculty, and Skidmore has a department of sponsored research for faculty, there is a disconnect between the institution, the students and the greater community. We truly have brilliant professors, but most of their work goes unheard of. There is no integrative way a business major can gain insight from the science departments unless taking a class. By shifting this trend and publically exposing the incredible research, the connections between students and faculty would strengthen. Exposure to new research and new ideas would allow new channels of curiosity to flow and the culture to develop. We do have a number of professor’s who are bucking the trend. Professor Catherine Hill has been a major proponent of I&E and has greatly contributed to developing the facilities in parallel with the culture. Her most recent contribution is a website ([https://skidmoreentrepreneurs.wordpress.com/ https://skidmoreentrepreneurs.wordpress.com]) to promote entrepreneurship and expose the accolades and achievements of the students. A secondary purpose of the websites is to attract non-business majors. From our findings, attracting non-business majors will greatly assist in holistically developing the culture of I&E. In addition, non-business majors play an important role in achieving interdisciplinary collaboration.   '''Actively Supporting The University Technology Transfer Process'''               At Skidmore we have three main incubator spaces: the Kenneth A. Freirich Business Plan Competition (KFBPC), which hosts business plan writing workshops and arranges mentors for competition finalists; Accelerate518, which is a regionally focussed support service from promising startups; and also Startup Weekend: Saratoga, which is open to anyone in Saratoga and allows groups to focus on different business ideas over the course of a weekend with a panel of judges who regularly check in and provide guidance as needed. In terms of seed funding initiatives: the KFBPC provides cash and in-kind services last valued at $60,000.00 - first place winner can win up to $20,000.00; while the Eastman Grant offers a $5,000.00 grant to a single venture every year. When it comes to student IP generation, students seek services outside the college. In terms of tech transfer specifics, Skidmore has a department of sponsored research, though that is predominantly available for faculty research rather than student ideation. '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' As Skidmore is a small early staged eco system, we don’t have a graduate program with highly technical facilities. This is a larger driver of I&E in academic institutions, which is why it’s important we establish strong partnership programs with larger institutions in the region. The lack of communal facilities and training is crucial in the development of interdisciplinary collaboration and the ability to develop and capitalizing good ideas. We have focused our solutions on developing facilities because as mention before, the culture will grow around the collaboration, and collaboration needs autonomy. The Albany Suny Polytech nanoscale science institute is within range for direct partnership between the arts and sciences. We also partner with Dartmouth for their engineering program. '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts.'''               Despite Skidmore’s size, we are very integrated with the local community.  Countless classes partner with local organizations to teach, learn, and collaborate.  Some of the most prominent departments involved in these practices include education, business, economics, computer science, and environmental studies.  One of the best classes the business department offers is called Skidmore Saratoga Consulting Partnership (SSCP).  This class gives local organizations free consulting with Skidmore business students.  Not only does the advice help the organizations, but the students learn real world skills in the process.  While this collaboration is great, we want to build upon ideas like this, and focus on bringing the community and Skidmore together.  Another great partnership is within the education program.  While this is less innovation-based, we run a preschool on campus that uses volunteers from Skidmore student body to run.  Again, the community and Skidmore classes are brought together and both benefit. Our fellow students are extremely talented; each and every one brings something innovative and unique to the table.  We want part of our plans to include harnessing that energy and using it as a force for good in the neighbouring community. Lanscape Spreadsheet: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E8j-R7rUq4q3Goi8F1v2JncEQWYU6xix_HivdDww1g0/edit#gid=5 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E8j-R7rUq4q3Goi8F1v2JncEQWYU6xix_HivdDww1g0/edit#gid=5] Landscape Canvus: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lmTIEyZ5RoXjOzKiJE7nmf5oKlEeYErL2ITbYQi74EY/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lmTIEyZ5RoXjOzKiJE7nmf5oKlEeYErL2ITbYQi74EY/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14] Written by: [[Henry Cyprien Fabre|Henry Cyprien Fabre]], [[Weston Stewart-Tennes|Weston stewart-tennes]], [[Alexander Nassief|Alexander Nassief]]    

Priorities:Skidmore College Student Priorities

2015-10-22T23:49:26Z

Wstewarttennes:

Student Priorities
 The Skidmore motto is “creative thought matters” and the students live and breathe that motto. The abundance of talent is apparent when walking through the campus and seeing the many performances and art and that liven up the community. The most inspiring element of Skidmore can be experienced when drifting through the common areas and listening to the sophisticated conversations. The students are vibrant with information, but there are more effective ways to excerpt the plentiful talent.

As a small liberal arts college and an early staged eco system, there are many possible methods to develop and grow I&E. Through research and analysing the landscape canvas, our most important discovery on achieving I&E is through interdisciplinary collaboration and integrative learning. The different methods to incite I&E may vary, but the culture grows around interdisciplinary collaboration and integrative learning. We will use these themes when developing our campus.

To provide departments the autonomy to collaborate, we think it is necessary to facilitate a collective space. When reflecting on the FORBES ranking, it sheds light on the lack resources of Skidmore as an emerging institution of I&E. In order to more effectively capitalise on this movement, Skidmore will need to adapt and grow.  In the next 2-3 years we would like to see the institution advance in two ways; facilities and the culture. These factors are interdependent as the facilities will grow in parallel with the culture. Ultimately, our strategy will create channels to develop and expose entrepreneurial endeavours and hopefully incite an I&E revolution. From our research, we are aware of effective Workshops/laboratories that provide a center for interdisciplinary collaboration at other institutions. With Skidmore’s unique criteria, we have devised ideas that cater specifically to Skidmore’s stakeholders and provide an effective center for I&E.

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Lab

The Innovation Lab is a student space that focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration, prototyping, and bringing ideas to life.  We want Skidmore students to be able to pursue any idea they have.  They shouldn’t have to be business or science majors in order to ideate, prototype, and build.

{ TODO: elaborate and incorporate bullet points

-students to co-design it

-focus on interdisciplinary collaboration

-draws attention to student projects

-we want all students to be able to benefit

-not a science-only place to work.}

1) Get a group of stakeholders to officially be involved

2) Present to the stakeholders and get feedback; modify the plan

3) Have a completed plan that is ready for investors detailing:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>everything that would be needed to build the lab</li>
<li>all systems that would be built around the lab</li>
<li>how students would interact with the lab</li>
<li>proof of concept: statements from students who say they would use this space</li>
</ol>

4) Send the word out to alumni, donors, and other funding sources

5) Secure

6)

<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Virtual Innovation Lab

The Virtual Innovation Lab would either stand in place of the physical Innovation Lab or work alongside it.  The Virtual Innovation Lab would be an online spot for students to collaborate as well as showcase their work.  The collaboration would be accomplished by linking students from different disciplines.  Students could write about projects they are working on and find other students who can fill the gaps where needed.  The Virtual Lab would also be a place future Venture Capitalists and other potential investors could go to explore student projects and look for ventures to fund.  

In the same vein as our other projects, the virtual lab would be centered around interdisciplinary work.  It would notonly be open to science and business students looking to build new technology.  Artists, musicians, historians, english majors, dancers, education majors, economics majors, mathematics majors, psychologists, government majors, and more and more.  The list goes on and on and the number of ways different disciplines could collaborate is endless.  In the virtual lab you will see computer science majors mapping dance moves, theatre majors acting out the brain with neuroscience majors, and artists creating from biology.  

Milestones:

1) Put together a team of stakeholders to supervise, network, and build the project.

2) Bring the stakeholders together in order to finalize the plan and find new suggestions

3) Begin building the website

4) Start spreading the word and finding student ambassadors to be the first students involved

5)

6) Launch the website!

Annual Student Expo - “SKIDMORE, what do you do?”

The 1st Annual Student Expo would be a place where students could showcase their work in front of fellow students and faculty as well as potential investors.  The main goal of the expo would be to promote innovation on campus.  The idea is that other students would see the work of their fellow classmates displayed on the central quad and be inspired to pursue a project of their own.  Furthermore, monetary prizes would be awarded to the best entrants both as an incentive to participate and also as  a way to promote individual projects.  Entrants would have to specify what they would use the money for as part of their presentation.

The Student Expo would not be only for business and science students.  We want to promote innovation across disciplines and therefore plan to open the expo to artists, musicians, researchers, and anybody else who has exciting or innovative projects/ideas.  We want to promote shear creativity.

{#TODO/EDIT

-create a fair with incentives, judges, winners get $$$

-outstanding craftsmen

-shear creativity

-real life applications

-misc.

-performance aspect?

-the point is to find outstanding talent.

-contact alumni

-talent/art/business/science expo

}

Milestones:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Gather faculty representatives from different departments -- October 16th, 2015</li>
<li>Hold a meeting, bringing these representatives together and present to them a formal plan for how this expo would come to life. -- Week of October 16th, 2015</li>
<li>Start planning!<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>begin to find investors/funders in order to fund the expo and the prize money</li>
<li>begin to narrow down a list of judges for the expo</li>
<li>contact alumni and begin</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Once we have funding, begin to promote the event and find students to participate</li>
<li>Put the show on</li>
</ol>

Collaborative Assignment

The college wide collaborative assignment would be a short 15 minute long article to read or video to watch with a one page response.

The idea behind a collective assignment is bringing the departments together. Everyone who chooses Skidmore has something in common because we all identify with the culture and see Skidmore as a stepping stone to our future. We all share commonalities, yet the day we arrive we are segmented into our prospective departments.

The goal for the collaborative assignment is focusing the collective attention to one specific topic. By assigning a short project we could have history majors exploring the same issues and topics as the biology and computer science majors. The collective assignment would do two things to stimulate innovation. First of all it would provide students with different majors a common subject or theme to talk about, debate and devise solutions. This would be a hugely powerful exercise as the common ground would be the formation of the interdisciplinary collaboration. Furthermore, it would provide a setting for the students to learn from each other. The second way this collective assignment would incite innovation is by creating a dialogue of an important issue. The short assignment would be thought provoking about a current affairs. The awareness of a new topic might encourage different majors to work together and create a solution. The assignment is a twofold project. The first part is simply the 15 minute assignment video/article and response. The second part would be an optional exercise for students to be awarded extra credit. The institution would provide extra credit for those students who collaborate and write paper/hold a presentation on how they could address the problem. The students might want to start a partition of signatures or hold an event to further spread awareness and address the problems brought up in the assignment. The main theme of this exercise would be to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and reward those who do. We are hopeful that aside from the institutional gains from this exercise, students may provide intelligent solutions to current problems and actually make a difference. We are hopeful that the larger community around us will gain from this exercise as well.

Milestones:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>consult various department heads and get feedback</li>
<li>hold stakeholder meeting and formalise the event</li>
</ol>

3) notify students of the assignment and the goal of this project

4)Test the idea and receive feedback

5)adjust assignment according to step 4

6)Issue the first college wide assignment

 [[Category: Skidmore College]]

[[Category: Weston Stewart-Tennes]]

[[Category: Henry Fabre]]

[[Category: Alexander Nassif]] Written by: [[Henry Cyprien Fabre|Henry Cyprien Fabre]],[[Weston Stewart-Tennes|Weston Stewart-Tennes]], [[Alexander Nassief|Alexander Nassif]]

Fellow:Weston Stewart-Tennes

2015-09-09T20:20:55Z

Wstewarttennes: Created page with "thumb <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; fo..."

[[File:WestonStewartTennes.jpg|thumb]]

<cite style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Weston Stewart-Tennes</cite> is a computer science major at Skidmore College who grew up in Oakland, California.  As a computer science major he’s had the opportunity to dive into the world of startups, learning business and entrepreneurship along the way.  He’s worked on three startups, one of which is currently being funded in Silicon Valley.  At home he enjoys playing the piano and woodworking.  He believes that building things from scratch is the only way and encourages others to start from bare bones.  After college he hopes to pursue engineering and eventually start a business focusing on green technology.   His other interests include playing piano, woodworking, and art/design.  He loves brainstorming and learning new ways to generate ideas, so if you know any shoot him an email at wstewarttennes@gmail.com or mail him a letter at Skidmore, Mailbox #2351!

[[Category:Student Contributors]]

File:WestonStewartTennes.jpg

2015-09-09T20:16:44Z

Wstewarttennes:

User:Wstewarttennes

2015-09-04T01:17:53Z

Wstewarttennes:

<cite>Weston Stewart-Tennes</cite> is a computer science major at Skidmore College who grew up in Oakland, California.  As a computer science major he’s had the opportunity to dive into the world of startups, learning business and entrepreneurship along the way.  He’s worked on three startups, one of which is currently being funded in Silicon Valley.  At home he enjoys playing the piano and woodworking.  He believes that building things from scratch is the only way and encourages others to start from bare bones.  After college he hopes to pursue engineering and eventually start a business focusing on green technology.   His other interests include playing piano, woodworking, and art/design.  He loves brainstorming and learning new ways to generate ideas, so if you know any shoot him an email at wstewarttennes@gmail.com or mail him a letter at Skidmore, Mailbox #2351!