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The projects outlined below will help improve I&E on campus.</span>

= 2016 Project  =

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<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a97c50b5-c7a9-4bd0-397c-2200dd567ca3"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Saint Louis University we have a first year class called U101 that is open for all students of all majors to take their first semester here at college. The class covers many different topics that relate to what resources the campus has to offer. With the resources available to students it would be beneficial for freshman to learn about the spaces we have for innovation and entrepreneurship here on campus. Because this class is open to all majors, interdisciplinary innovation can be harbored here and can carry across campus. A few steps that need to be taken to get this program off the ground include:</span></span></span></span></span>

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<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a97c50b5-c7aa-d872-77e4-ac50b6e80da0"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Saint Louis University we believe that the most important issue is the lack of maker space at high intense places where students work and study. Every student wishes to write on walls, use blackboards and an innovative place for that student would help him/her make a change at that particular university</span></span></span></span></span>

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<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Every Wednesday,Saint Louis University students have a chance to compete in the Weekly Innovation Challenge at Parks College of Enigneering. Students come together to form teams from different majors/disciplines. The students are then given an impromptu challenge and have one hour to compete.&nbsp;</span></span></span>

<br/><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The last few semesters, there has been a decrease in the number of participants and decrease in the different majors/disciplines.</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:larger;">5 months: Host the weekly innovation challenge for the whole University and if it is successful, we will hope to have it multiple times during the 5 months</span></span>

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<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The project I am proposing for the UIF program is to develop an annual idea competition day, called “SLU iDea Competition Day”. The program will be held&nbsp;<span data-term="goog_396636176">in one day</span>&nbsp;where students from across campus (including our medical campus) will come to pitch either a new or existing idea that they think can solve a problem in our daily lives. The problem scope can be worldwide as well as local to someone’s daily life. This program would be ran at the university level where the university’s administrators and faculties will be encouraged to participate in promoting the event to their students. The top ten ideas will be chosen at the end of the competition and rewarded with monetary prizes to encourage the students to pursue it or keep on innovating until they can find the best idea that they like to work with. This will provide a huge motivate to students from different discipline to think creatively and at the same incorporating the entrepreneurial mindset into their thought process. Given the program will be success, the school will also benefit from its outcomes by having a good reputation and potentially attract more prospective students in the long run.</span></span>

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