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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.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. ==

== 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.

= Strategy #3 - Collider Space in Library (Innovation space in Killam Library) =The Collider is Tactic no.4: Creation of 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 innovatorsunified informational system about D. The Collider connect students, local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystemE. Killam Library is the least-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 potentialS. events via Facebook ==

== Tactic noWe would like to create a Facebook group to complement the current Facebook page that exists for the D.1: Series of HackathonsE.S. A Facebook group would allow for a more active D.E.S. online community, Events & Conferences ==that could respond to announcements with feedback and start new discussion threads and ideas.

The Collider would serve a great venue for a series of student= Strategy #3 -led Hackathons, Events & Conferences. The university does not currently host any regular hackathons for students, and that is something that needs to be changed. Our idea is to host a monthly hackathon 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 themCo-curricular Record (Design Thinking  Lean Methodology) =

Events and coferences are in our long term plan, but we definitely plan on hosting at least one big event a year We proposing to have Design Thinking & Lean Methodology offered as official co-curricular record to motivate students to get introduced to showcase the amazing entrepreneurial mindset. This would serve as an ideal channel to non-invasively encourage students who have come up to get involved with innovative ideas for each yearentrepreneurship on the campus.

There = Strategy #4 – Rethinking the Collider and other entrepreneurship spaces on campus = The Collider is currently a big gap between 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. The Collider connect students , local startups, mentors, investors and allows them to work together to help further grow the local startup ecosystem. Killam Library is the least-siloed space on the campus and place where people come together. == Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops and hackathons in order to get students more informed and engaged about E&I&E activities around Dalhousie== As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and we would like workshops for students to gain all the skills they need to fill in this gap by providing run a startup. These workshops have to be regular nuewsletter that allows the so students get to know the schedule and come as they have available time. The workshops will be informed of all the acitivites hosted by guest speakers and facilitated by volunteers. The topics we wish to cover include coding for beginners, design, making effective phone calls, and events that much more. Additionally we are hosting or the ones that are being led by other societies or faculties around Dalhousiewish to host monthly hackathons with a different theme each month. We believe this would 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 way place for students who have ideas in each of these disciples to get more and more students engaged come together and informed of our eventswork on them.

== Tactic no.2: Keep Promote the newsletter network posted about E&I related news, events, workshops, competitions etc Collider as more of a specifically entrepreneurial space or modify an existing space ==

We know that wish to transform the Collider (or modify a newsletter is new existing space) into a good idaemore entrepeneurship and innovation-oriented space. We will do this by physically transforming the room, but having a lot of irrelevant information "theming" it with entrepreneurship and innovation inspirational quotes on the wall, etc. We also wish to have regular walk-in times every week, when students can come in there might make people dislike us and stay awaywork on their own entrepreneurial ideas in the space. So we believe We wish to have a posted professor or other university staff with experience in entrepreneurship present during these times to answer any questions that we students may have about startups, and provide help on specific issues should keep students need it. We also wish to enable students to use physical office/home supplies to create their prototypes right in the newsletter "short and sweet"collider/other space during the workshops, events, or contests. This means that we will only add relevant allow students to create a physical prototype and exciting information get one step closer to the newsletter so studnets actually enjoy reading it and want us to post morefinal product.

== Tactic no.3: Encourage people to sign up and keep reading the newsletter by hosting regular give away draws. =Strategy #5 – Hold More Student-Lead Hackathons on a Regular Basis =

= Strategy #6 – Promote = Tactic no.1: Start the use Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of The Collider monthly held hackathons created by partnering with different organizations and faculties to ensure collaboration. ==

== Tactic no.1: Hosting regular workshops As mentioned above, the hackathons will be a great way to get all students involved in order different fields and to start to get them innovating. The hackathons will have different themes, but they will all be open to all students more informed so everyone is welcome to join and engaged learn about E&I ==the different topics. We believe this will be a great way to attract students from all around dalhousie and get them together working on great ideas. Having traditional hackathons is great, but adding different topics and inviting the general student body will ensure high attendance numbers and excitement for everyone.

As part of our initiative to get more students involved from all faculties, we will be hosting regular events and workshops == Tactic no.2: Make Hackathons inviting for students to gain any student all over 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 morefour campuses of Dalhousie University. ==

== Tactic noWe decided to call all the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails, hanging posters on the walls, creating social media invitations etc. 2: Build a design thinking corner We are dedicated to grab the attention of students in the collider space ==different faculties. We want to show students that E&I isn't only for engineering and business students.

==Tactic no.1: Keep Hackamarine running annually to get more oceanography/earth sciences students engaged in E&I.=Strategy #6 - Encouraging Cross-Faculty Understanding and Shared Experience =

First Hackamarine was In order to enhance the interaction between students across faculties, we aim to launch a great successclass-exchange system where they can take the classes with students from other faculties in a monthly basis. It didn't only help exposing oceanography/earth sciences The way how it works is that some specific classes from each faculty would offer up to E&I10 students per month, but it was to voluntarily take a great turn out regarding collaboration part in the class. The potential outcomes of cross faculty this system would let studentswalk into the shoes of others in terms of academic lives of one to another. Students from oceanography, engineering, arts, phycologyIn addition to that, commerce they can connect and management formed teams and brought different mindsets get to know students from variety of faculty for a greater ability to form a diverse team once they decide to marine problems take their innovative ideas and came with ideas start working on how to solve themit as entrepreneurs.

==Tactic no.21: Start the Dalhousie Hackathon Series (DHS), a series of monthly held hackathons created by partnering Get in touch with different organizations and faculties stakeholders to ensure collaboration. the success of exchange system ==

==Tactic no.3: Make Hackathons inviting for any student all over the four campuses Strategy #7 - Creation of Dalhousie University. =a Beginner-Oriented LaunchDAL Sub-brand =

We decided Beginners feel alienated in the status quo with regards to call all entrepreneurship activities. They have a perception that they do not have the students around all four campuses into action! Sending out emails"right stuff", that it is too difficult, hanging posters on the wallsthat it is reserved only for business majors, creating social media invitations etc. We are dedicated In order to fill the gap and correct these misconceptions, we will strive to create friendlier and more approachable branding for all existing and future entrepreneurship activities, as well as simply informative promotion with regards to grab beginners that will strive for inclusivity and approachability. This will be a part of a larger marketing/promotional campaign for entrepreneurship events on campus. This campaign will be supplemented by CKDU (university radio) spots, the attention creation of students in different facultiesa unified informational/update system (D.E.S. Facebook group), and other such initiatives. == Tactic no. We want to show 1: Get feedback from entrepreneurship beginners on approachability of promotional material == To achieve this approachability and friendly marketing, we will run marketing by actual students and get feedback vis-a-vis these characteristics that E&I isn't only we are striving for engineering and business students.

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