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= OVERVIEW = Dalhousie University is located in the heart of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Local startup ecosystem in Halifax is still at its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate deeper connection with the local startup community. Based on this initiative there was a group of political, academic and business leaders formed called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. One of the major topics is entrepreneurship and innovation. Going through the training to become University Innovation Fellow, we had a great opportunity to get out of the building and talk to large amount of students and faculty member from across the campus and map out our campus landscape and recognize some of the major shortcomings that need to be addressed. One of our findings was that students are not very aware of the resources and possiblities the E&I community can offer them at Dalhousie and Halifax. Although, some students are aware of some societies, events and spaces that are offered to them, majority of the students are in the mindset that the resources are mostly for business students at Dalhousie. This creates a lack of cross-faculty interaction under E&I. The Sexton Engineering Campus at Dalhousie University is physically isolated from the main campus, Studley. This hinders the opportunity for full collaboration within the main campus. We believe that cross-faculty collaboration is essential for further growth of our startup ecosystem. A great example of this is a company called Spring Loaded, where three students from various faculties met in the Starting Lean Course, came up with an idea for a new generation of knee braces and rose over $1.8 million in seed financing to date. In addition to that, Dalhousie university is commited to make engineering campus for the upcoming $64M Innovation hub, IDEA project. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) has done tremendous work in the short amount of time they have had since the society was created. Most of the activities and events that we will host will be under D.E.S. because it will give us the platform and power to be in touch with students who have shown some interest in E&I. The D.E.S. will be our main hub that will allow us to get funding and reach the maximum number of students, stakeholder and investors. Our main goal this year is to get increased involvement from students, and for that, we need some funding to be able to bring value to them where they will have the incentive to join our society and take part in our activities.

We are very pleased with the initiative from the university and the province to create the Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus. As University Fellow candidates, we fully support this initiative and are willing to help to further promote it as well as help with information interviews, planning and further ideation on its programs and events. == Tactic no.21: Maker Club - Garage Future Plans for Events in the IDEA Project Building ==  Once the IDEA Building is complete, we wish to utilise some of the collaborative spaces that it will entail to run design workshops and entrepreneurship events out of it. By doing so, we prioritise the access of engineering students, whose campus on which the building will be located, while at the same time including students from all Dalhousie campuses. This will be a great way to promote cross-faculty, and even moreso cross-campus collaboration and innovation. 

A student-centric organization on campus that aims to build an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus from within by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons, startup weekends, conferences and connecting them with the local startup community. D.E.S serves as a vehicle to deliver our strategic student priorities and initiatives. == Tactic no.1: Build a framework which we can pass along for next generation of student entrepreneurs.== We are building a structure for our society so the new executives for the years to come can have a base to rely on. It is important for us not to just start a society but to also keep it alive and pass it on to other new executives who can take our roles and keep growing it as time goes by. This will be done through getting a ot of people involved with our events and setting guidlines and goals for us to achieve within a timeline. That way, students will take the society seriously and keep it going to achieve its goal of spreading innovation and entrepreneurship around campus. == Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. == By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie. == Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of student-driven events, meetups and competitions. == In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new By-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution to enable us fully establish ourselves as the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunities. == Tactic no.4: Creation of a unified informational system about D.E.S. events via Facebook == We would like to create a Facebook group to complement the current Facebook page that exists for the D.E.S. A Facebook group would allow for a more active D.E.S. online community, that could respond to announcements with feedback and start new discussion threads and ideas.

=Strategy #3 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) = Tactic no.2: Recruit students in their first and second year to ensure sustainable future for D.E.S. == By getting students involved in the Entrepreneurship Society we can ensure a sustainable future for the society. Society will keep growing as years go by and students will have time to become familiar with E&I before their graduation, which ultimately will increase the chances of more E&I student achievements at Dalhousie.

== Tactic no.3: Raise awareness with series of studentWe proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-driven events, meetups and competitionscurricular record to motivate students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset.== In addition, we are currently in the process of creating new ByThis would serve as an ideal channel to non-Laws and a more comprehensive Constitution invasively encourage students to enable us fully establish ourselves as get involved with entrepreneurship on the leading student-led organization promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Campus and help us seek further funding opportunitiescampus.

= Strategy #3 - Collider Space in Library (Innovation space in Killam Library) =The Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for Tactic no.1: Register all the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic Entrepreneurship and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators. The Collider connect studentsInnovation related events, local startupscontests, mentorscompetitions, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystemworkshops etc. Killam Library is the leaston co-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. It is in our best interest to help push this initiative to its full potentialcurricular database. ==

== Tactic no.1: ==Series of Hackathons, Events & Conferences The Collider would serve We have a great venue co-curricular record program at Dalhousie Unversity and we would like to leverage that to attract more students into our events and workshops. It is very important that students get recognized for a series of student-led Hackathonsthe work that they have done, Events and showing them that the activities that they do with us will be officially recorded on their transcript is just an extra incenstive to attracting them into our programs.& Conferences. nbsp;

== Tactic no.2: ==Encourage Enable students to use the collider space for design thinkingenter their volunteer, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resume. ==

= Strategy #4 - Co-curricular Record (Design Thinking & Lean Methodology) =We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate By allowing students to get introduced to the entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students to get involved with entrepreneurship on specify their roles for the campus. == Tactic no.1: ==Register all the Entrepreneurship and Innovation related specified events, workshops, contests, competitions, workshops projects etc. on in the co-curricular databaserecord will build the desire of wanting to engage more and be a part of something.== Tactic no.2: ==Enable This way students can have an attachment to enter their volunteerthe event, participant, mentor, speaker, winner positions within E&I on their co-curricular record which later will benefit their resumeworkshop etc. they took a part in.

=Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus = Tactic no.2: ==Keep the newsletter network poseted aboutE&I related news, events, workshops, conpetitions etc.

== Tactic noThe Collider is a multipurpose space in Killam Library for the collision of serendipitous ideas where from all academic and professional disciplines can come together to develop ideas and and create the future generation of innovators.3: ==Encourage people The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to sign up help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and keep reading the newsletter by hosting regular give away drawsplace where people come together.

= Strategy #6 – Promote the use of The Collider = Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I ==

== Tactic no.1: ==Hosting regular workshops in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&IAs part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to run a startup. These workshops have to be regular so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and much more. Additionally we wish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. One month it can be for ocean science and ocean projects, while another month it can be a computer science hackathon and possibly a medical science hackathon. These hackathons will serve as a great place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to come together and work on them.

== Tactic no.2:2 == Build Promote the Collider as more of a design thinking corner in the collider specifically entrepreneurial space We would like to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the collider during the workshops, events, or contests. This will allow students to create a physical prototype and get one step closer to the final product. modify an existing space ==

= Strategy #7 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =We want wish to challenge transform the idea that hackathons are only techCollider (or modify a new existing space) into a more entrepeneurship and innovation-relatedoriented space. In order to get students from all backgrounds We will do this by physically transforming the room, "theming" it with entrepreneurship and faculties involvedinnovation inspirational quotes on the wall, we etc. We also wish to have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer scienceregular walk-in times every week, one for health sciences when students can come in and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held work on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015space. Hackamarine is going We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to be an annual event held at Dalhousie Universityanswer any questions that students may have about startups, a school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programsand provide help on specific issues should students need it. This is a cross-faculty event aiming We also wish to enable students to bring talent from various fields use physical office/home supplies to work on major problems create their prototypes right in Oceans & Marine Sciencesthe collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. The winning teams took home This will allow students to create a cumulative total of $5,000 in prizesphysical prototype and get one step closer to the final product.

=Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =Tactic no.1: ==Keep Hackamarine running annually to get more oceanography/earth sciences students engaged in E&I.

==Tactic noWe want to challenge the idea that hackathons are only tech-related.2:==Start In order to get students from all backgrounds and faculties involved, we have to host hackathons for different disciplines like a hackathon for computer science, one for health sciences and another for ocean science. Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society held the first student-led hackathon for Oceanography and Marine programs Hackamarine 2015. Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS)University, a series school well known for its world-class Marine & Oceanography programs. This is a cross-faculty event aiming to bring talent from various fields to work on major problems in Oceans & Marine Sciences. The winning teams took home a cumulative total of monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration$5,000 in prizes.

==Tactic no.31: ==Make Hackathons more exciting/inviting by challenging students all over Start the four campuses Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of Dalhousie Universitymonthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration.==

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