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

= 2016 Project  =

<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>

<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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