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| + | == DifferenceMaker'''™'''<span style="font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Program</span></span> == | ||
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| + | The DifferenceMaker™ Program sponsors specific events and activities that support students in solving big problems through innovation and entrepreneurship. The Program is highly experiential and offers students a series of workshops that they can engage in to better understand innovation, entrepreneurship and launching a startup of their interest. | ||
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| + | Students of all majors and disciplines are welcome to join this Program and make a difference at UMass Lowell, in the community, or in the world through innovative and entrepreneurial action. These DifferenceMaker™ Projects include interdisciplinary student teams from all majors and skill sets. | ||
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| + | · Introduce all UMass Lowell students to creative problem-solving, innovation and entrepreneurship | ||
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| + | · Accelerate purpose in each student's education | ||
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| + | · Connect current students to alumni who have experience | ||
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| + | · Encourage a social responsibility ethos | ||
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Revision as of 21:10, 30 September 2014
Contents
Overview- A Campus on the Move
The University of Massachusetts Lowell Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Canvas is full of opportunities. The UMass Lowell is growing at a high rate, and we are moving along these opportunity lines in order to achieve even better results than ever before. UMass Lowell has been evolving in every aspect: Upgraded classrooms, libraries and labs; new and renovated student living and activity spaces; and enhanced parking facilities are a few items on the list of what has been updated and changed throughout the past decade of campus improvement.
UMass Lowell's entrepreneurial culture is budding and many changes are already in the works. The faculty and administration at the University of Massachusetts Lowell are supportive of the movement and want to embrace the economic developments that are possible for students, the school, and the city of Lowell. Programs and organizations have been put into place to give us a great head start, but there is still more to come from our university.
Our strategic plan will incorporate the promotion and growth of what has already begun to grow a reputation on campus (DifferenceMaker, Hawk Hatch, and other opportunities), the development of new space, and the organization and funding for a design challenge to give students innovative and entrepreneurial experience as well as help our university's surrounding community.
Pitch Videos
Kevin Desjardins
Ana Gouveia
James Abdallah
Jacob Hulme
Strategy #1: Promote and Support Current Entrepreneurial Programs
The following are already on campus but need further promoting to improve our entrepreneurial mindset culture
DifferenceMaker™ Program
About DifferenceMaker™:
The DifferenceMaker™ Program sponsors specific events and activities that support students in solving big problems through innovation and entrepreneurship. The Program is highly experiential and offers students a series of workshops that they can engage in to better understand innovation, entrepreneurship and launching a startup of their interest.
Students of all majors and disciplines are welcome to join this Program and make a difference at UMass Lowell, in the community, or in the world through innovative and entrepreneurial action. These DifferenceMaker™ Projects include interdisciplinary student teams from all majors and skill sets.
Goals of DifferenceMaker™:
· Introduce all UMass Lowell students to creative problem-solving, innovation and entrepreneurship
· Accelerate purpose in each student's education
· Connect current students to alumni who have experience
· Encourage a social responsibility ethos
Strategy #2: "The Mill" & Design Challenge
The following are some ideas for plans that we want to begin out this summer & beyond
The Mill
- The history of Lowell has provided us with a storyline that is completely engulfed in disruptive and innovative thinking.
- The Industrial Revolution began in Lowell, and the history and mills that are here remind us that they should be used as a way to inspire innovative thinking.
The concept would provide maker space:
- The history of Lowell has provided us with a storyline that is completely engulfed in disruptive and innovative thinking.
- The Industrial Revolution began in Lowell, and the history and mills that are here remind us that they should be used as a way to inspire innovative thinking.
- We could transform a room within a mill into a design center, with whiteboards and new tools as well as old machinery from the mill's era, to generate creativity.
- We would need to find funding and space to renovate.
- This would allow students to see their surrounding environment and things that they could improve and change, because it is slightly off-campus.
- The goal would be to give students a more open space, where they can go to brainstorm and break things so they can potentially create more.
Design Challenge
- Description: The Design Challenge would be developed to help UMass Lowell students recognize current inefficiencies within Lowell's infrastructure. This will not only help our current economic development of Lowell, but it will give students real-world experience moving forward. We would hopefully gain a grant to help fund this, and run multiple challenges per year.
- Milestones:
- Reach out to current graduate students- Fall 2013 through Spring 2014
- Formulate a list of interested graduate students- Fall 2013 through Spring 2014
- Create a forum and central space for these graduate students- Summer 2014
- Host webinar sessions on goals of the program- Summer 2014
- Re-evaluate interested graduate students- Fall 2014
- Afford benefits and rewards to committed graduate students- Fall 2014
- Generate awareness of program to other current students- Spring 2015
- Market resources- Spring 2015
- Connect undergraduate students with graduate students- Fall 2015
Strategy #3: Promote and Support Current Entrepreneurial Programs
The following are already on campus but need further promoting to improve our entrepreneurial mindset culture
DifferenceMaker™ Program
About DifferenceMaker™:
The DifferenceMaker™ Program sponsors specific events and activities that support students in solving big problems through innovation and entrepreneurship. The Program is highly experiential and offers students a series of workshops that they can engage in to better understand innovation, entrepreneurship and launching a startup of their interest.
Students of all majors and disciplines are welcome to join this Program and make a difference at UMass Lowell, in the community, or in the world through innovative and entrepreneurial action. These DifferenceMaker™ Projects include interdisciplinary student teams from all majors and skill sets.
Goals of DifferenceMaker™:
· Introduce all UMass Lowell students to creative problem-solving, innovation and entrepreneurship
· Accelerate purpose in each student's education
· Connect current students to alumni who have experience
· Encourage a social responsibility ethos
Related Links
University of Massachusetts Lowell
University Innovation Fellows:
