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= ~~2014~~ 2015 UIF Leadership Circle~~ =~~ The [[University of Virginia|University of Virginia]] UIF team will create a physical space for Health Innovation and Incubation as the centerpiece of our future plans. The space will be housed in an emergent tech incubator, HackCville, and we will partner with their mission and culture of design, mentorship and self-starter ingenuity. Our strategy addresses the gaps identified in our landscaping of UVA's I&E capacity; while there are a multitude of programs and accessible funding avaible on grounds, they are restricted by student organization transience and their lack of coordination and. We can develop the connectivity needed to field projects and support them fully from upstream to downstream by riding the exisiting momentum and experience in the tech-entrepreneurship field. The proximity to this work is helping to foster a healthy new culture at UVA; under the new physical location and presence we plan to build out new events and programing to create visibility on campus. These include the Lawn Innovation Invation, the Grit Challenge, the Medical Hackathon and IdeasEverwhere Walls- elaborated upon below. ~~{{#Widget:Youtube|id~~=~~N3NIAD2ral0}}~~

== ~~Grit Challenge~~ ''Fall 2015'' ==

In 2013, the [http://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/ MacAuthur Fellows Grant] was bestowed upon [http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit Angela Lee Duckworth for defining the term "Grit" as the best metric of sucess].'''Project Pitch Video'''

This will be a challenge designed to counter the typical one-off nature of traditional buisness competions and pitches that focus on how well an idea is presented at one point in time. Wise speakers at NCIIA warned us about the dangers of extoling a singular idea instead of the people or process, and honestly, we see that play out when the winners of business competitions are more incentivised to dress-up an idea than to propel it forward. In order to shift these expectations, we propose to design a competition that measures the fearlessness and reckless abandon of true entrepreneurs on a mission - the tenacity to start scrappy, shoot high; allow oneself to fail in a productive way in which they are able to use it experientially to propel themselves further forward{{#Widget: true GRIT! We are experimenting with the idea of shaping the challenge into 1-month segments, starting with a low operational budget of $10 and incrementally increasing amounts of award money for those able to stay in the rounds. This also teaches an important lesson in establishing credibility for those starting with next-to-nothing, through incrementally growing steps and the quantification of sucess to show possible investors/supporters. Youtube|id=tVHLukJxiuk}}

~~== Medical Hackathon ==~~Top priorites:

'''Description: '''A short-term goal of the UVA Leaderhship Circle is to host a medical hackathon that will get hundreds of students involved in healthcare entrepreneurship at UVA in a fun, relaxing and engaging way1. ~~The student-run organization that will put the hackathon together will be a new student-run club called Emerging Medical Technology Ventures, or EMTV. The end goal of the hackathon is two-fold:~~Increasing Health mentorship

*One, to recruit young students of different backgrounds and majors to join EMTV2. ReinventED Lab

*And two3. Crowdfunded Student Ventures<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Health UnBound<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Description: Promote medical innovation and entrepreneurship at the University by centralizing resources in a student organization. Health UnBound has already been working this past year to accomplish these goals through various competitions and industry tours. For this year, ~~have hackathon participants carry out projets~~ we want to emphasize student team mentorship to encourage students to stick with projects and get hooked on medical entrepreneurship.</li><li>Goals: + Timeline:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>We will host a medical design competition near the beginning of the semester that ~~result from~~ spawns project teams and offer money and mentorship as the main prize<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>This has already been completed</li></ol></li><li>Through the semester we will host “health community office hours” at a local community workspace to touch base with projects</li><li>We will help competitive projects apply for funding near the end of the ~~hackathon~~semester.<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Our main goal for this stage will be to prep teams for University  entrepreneurship cup to gain $1000 in funding.</li></ol></li></ol></li></ol></li></ol>

A medical hackathon could serve as the spark for serious undergraduate involvement in healthcare and medical technology innovation. The reason for emphasis on recruiting young students is to help ensure that the UVA community can continually become engaged in medical technology and healthcare innovation for at least 3 years, as demonstrated by additional hackathons and successful project grant applications.

~~'''Team Leaders~~<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>ReinventED Lab<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Description: ReinventED Lab aims to build a community of creative problem-solving in education. We do this by hosting signature programs (24 Hour Challenge and Startup Weekend EDU: Problem-solvathon Edition), ~~[[Rachel Smith|Rachel Smith]]~~developing a customizable creative problem-solving process (drawing on design thinking, ~~[[Kelly Thomas|Kelly Thomas]]~~lean startup tactics, ~~[[Anish Dalal|Anish Dalal]]~~and 4.0 Schools methodologies), ~~Alex Zorychta~~ and ~~David Chen (Director~~ growing impact-driven education innovation projects. Recognizing the net potential of education innovation at UVA, in Albemarle County, and in the Charlottesville community, ReinventED Lab aims to convene stakeholders for productive ideation and collaboration. To this end, ReinventED Lab leverages student voices, design thinking, and community building best practices, with the objective of establishing the Charlottesville area’s pre-eminence as a leader in the national movement towards locally-grown, early-stage education innovation.</li><li>Goals:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Attract a significant number of attendees to ReinventED events</li><li>Bring multiple stakeholder groups into conversation with one another</li><li>Support the growth of education innovation projects</li><li>Identify the needs for users engaged in early-stage education innovation</li><li>Establish strong testimonies and examples of ideas surfaced and supported by ReinventED programs</li><li>Develop strong relationships with Albemarle County Public Schools, UVA, and Charlottesville community members</li></ol></li><li>Timeline:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>ReinventED Kickoff Party: August 2015</li><li>Co-create UVA ~~Coulter Foundation Program~~(cocreateuva.com) proposed: September 2015</li><li>ReinventED 24 Hour Challenge: October 9-10, 2015</li><li>ReinventED joins Albemarle County Schools Team for XQ Super Schools (xqsuperschool.org)Challenge: Mid-October, 2015</li><li>National Policy Breakthrough Lab commences research on early-stage education innovation”: Mid-October, 2015</li><li>ReinventED Startup Weekend EDU: Problem-solvathon Edition: November 13-15, 2015</li><li>ReinventED Project Cohort: Spring 2016</li></ol></li></ol></li></ol>

~~'''Milestones:'''~~

*Attend <ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Create crowd-funding source for student ventures<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Description: I will partner with Venture Fund at UVa to create a crowd-funding source that provides base-level funding to student ventures that are not ready to reach out to investors/compete for money. This will create more student ventures, thereby tackling a largeproblem facing the I&E community on Grounds which is that students don’t apply to UVa because of innovation. By having increased amounts of student ventures, the reasons people apply to UVa will hopefully be more and more about innovation. Additionally, student ventures are another vehicle by which experiential learning can be spread on Grounds, an educational style that many professors face institutional challenges in implementing. The crowd-funding will be piloted alongside a design course on Grounds that has semester-~~scale~~long projects, ~~professional medical hackathon to determine optimal ways~~ many of which can be translated easily (relatively speaking) into ventures.</li><li>Goals:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Encourage creation of ~~hosting them~~more student ventures</li>*Recruit at least 5 first <li>Provide base-level funding for student ventures that are not ready to ~~second year students~~ reach out to ~~help organize~~ investors/compete for money</li><li>Provide more ways for real experiential learning, the ~~first hackathon and eventually lead EMTV~~vehicle being student ventures</li></ol></li><li>Timeline<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Reach out to all stakeholders - Early October</li>*Obtain faculty advisors who have medicine<li>Draft necessary resources, ~~engineering and~~proposals - Late October</~~or business backgrounds to advise on design challenges~~ li><li>Secure course for ~~hackathons and provde additional mentoring to students who pursue projects after hackathons~~pilot  - Early November</li>*Have at least 3 hackathon <li>Finalize Initiatives with Venture Fund - Late November</li><li>Create crowd-funding source - End of February</li><li>Pitch to student projects ~~within 2 years place~~ in ~~the [http~~design course; offer draft of a pitch for crowd-funding medium - Mid March</li><li>Get feedback from ventures - Early April</~~innovation~~span></li><li>Reflect/Improve system - Mid April/Early May</li></ol></li></~~events~~ol></~~ecup University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup] or obtain some sort of competitive funding~~li>*At least one startup formed within 5 years</ol>

= ''Spring 2015 ~~UIF Leadership Circle~~ '' =

== Top Priorities ==

~~# ~~*Design Team Nurturing~~# ~~*Entrepreneurship Council~~# ~~*Medical Bridge#*Entrepreneurship Educational Tract*Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum at UVA School of Medicine

== Dream Team Program ==

*If the votes exceed a certain number (ex. 300), a crowd-funding system can be started for it

== Introduce an Innovation and Entreprensurhip Educational Tract ==

*I believe this can be housed in the already existing Engineering business minor, which is extremely popular among current students

*By Spring 2016, introduce the first design class for the engineering business minor

**Capstone Venture-Lab course implementation in progress

*Encourage students to take their ideas and create products and companies around it. This may require restructuring the curriculum, so that the last capstone class, in which you create a product idea, is taken before a student's final year

== Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum at UVA School of Medicine ==

'''Description''': Develop and implement an unprecedented curriculum track at the School of Medicine focused on user-centered design and problem solving.

The following is a detailed proposal submitted to the UVA School of Medicine Curriculum Committee based on student feedback and survey:

<div>The practice of medicine is undergoing radical transformation in the United States. This shift is fueled by myriad inter-connected factors including highly disruptive advances in fields like genomics and a drive for more individualized, patient-centered care, as well as population-level needs for advances in areas such as preventive services to address sequelae of chronic disease. Innovative approaches to medical training are needed to prepare young physicians for these changes and position them to play leadership roles in their personal clinical teams and at a system level. Traditional 4-year medical training programs now include increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary teams. However, they do not naturally cultivate opportunities for students to focus on unsolved problems and get hands-on experience creating new products or services to address those problems, skills that are essential to becoming successful and effective innovators. With its history of cultural transformation in inter-disciplinary translational research the University of Virginia (UVA) is well positioned for a leadership role in preparing future medical doctors for the new era of medical practice.</div><div> </div><div>We are proposing a ‘Medical Innovation & Human-Centered Design’ track to provide UVA medical students working knowledge of innovation and human centered design approaches – popularly referred to as design thinking. This track will complement the NexGen curriculum by offering three discrete phases of student training on this topic. The first phase will take place in the first two years prior clerkship, during which students will participate in workshops and seminars to build requisite knowledge in design and innovation. Because of busy schedules and the demands of clerkships, the second phase will consist primarily of student’s journaling their observations during their time in clinic. This will provide data that will be the seeds for the third and final phase, during their 4th year. This component will include an elective and Capstone project (similar to a thesis). For the purpose of developing this program, we request one year of support to pilot a certificate program that will feature 6 workshops/seminars for first year medical students entering the fall of 2016 and to build on theexisting 4th year s-elective taught by David Chen. The data gathered through the courses as well as through student and faculty focus groups, interviews, and surveys during the 2015-2016 year will optimize a 4-year track to be offered Fall of 2016.</div><div> </div><div>'''Goals:'''</div>

*Introduce the human-centered design methodology to medical students

*Utilize course materials and results from workshops to educate the medical school at-large about human-centered design principles

*Encourage application of skillsets in practial healthcare scenarios 

*Promote the use of human-centered design for medical education on a national scale

= 2014 UIF Leadership Circle =

~~== Introduce an~~ The [http://universityinnovation.org/University%20of%20Virginia University of Virginia] UIF team will create a physical space for Health Innovation and ~~Entreprensurhip Educational Tract ==<ul style="margin: 0~~Incubation as the centerpiece of our future plans.~~3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(68~~The space will be housed in an emergent tech incubator, 68HackCville, ~~68); font-family: Arial~~and we will partner with their mission and culture of design, ~~sans~~mentorship and self-~~serif~~starter ingenuity. Our strategy addresses the gaps identified in our landscaping of UVA's I&E capacity; ~~font-size: 14px;"><li>I believe this~~ while there are a multitude of programs and accessible funding avaible on grounds, they are restricted by student organization transience and their lack of coordination and. We can ~~be housed~~ develop the connectivity needed to field projects and support them fully from upstream to downstream by riding the exisiting momentum and experience in the ~~already existing Engineering business minor, which~~ tech-entrepreneurship field. The proximity to this work is ~~extremely popular among current students</li><li>By Spring 2016, introduce~~ helping to foster a healthy new culture at UVA; under the ~~first design class for the engineering business minor</li><li>Encourage students~~ new physical location and presence we plan to ~~take their ideas~~ build out new events and programing to create ~~products and companies around it~~visibility on campus. ~~This may require restructuring~~ These include the ~~curriculum~~Lawn Innovation Invation, ~~so that~~ the ~~last capstone class~~Grit Challenge, ~~in which you create a product idea, is taken before a student's final year</li>~~the Medical Hackathon and IdeasEverwhere Walls- elaborated upon below. {{#Widget:Youtube|id=N3NIAD2ral0}}~~<li>Within 3 years, hire faculty that have experience with technological innovations to inspire and empower our students</li></ul>~~== Grit Challenge ==

In 2013, the [http://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/ MacAuthur Fellows Grant] was bestowed upon [http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit Angela Lee Duckworth for defining the term "Grit" as the best metric of sucess].

This will be a challenge designed to counter the typical one-off nature of traditional buisness competions and pitches that focus on how well an idea is presented at one point in time. Wise speakers at NCIIA warned us about the dangers of extoling a singular idea instead of the people or process, and honestly, we see that play out when the winners of business competitions are more incentivised to dress-up an idea than to propel it forward. In order to shift these expectations, we propose to design a competition that measures the fearlessness and reckless abandon of true entrepreneurs on a mission - the tenacity to start scrappy, shoot high; allow oneself to fail in a productive way in which they are able to use it experientially to propel themselves further forward: true GRIT! We are experimenting with the idea of shaping the challenge into 1-month segments, starting with a low operational budget of $10 and incrementally increasing amounts of award money for those able to stay in the rounds. This also teaches an important lesson in establishing credibility for those starting with next-to-nothing, through incrementally growing steps and the quantification of sucess to show possible investors/supporters. 

== ~~Create a system/institutional support for students to stay in the Charlottesville area~~ Medical Hackathon ==~~<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><li>Create the physical and social capacity to encourage alumni to remain in the Charlottesville area, thus building Charlottesville up to be a hub of technological innovation.</li><li>There is a sp@ce currently being built in Charlottesville...start incorporating student input into this space</li></ul>~~

'''Description: '''A short-term goal of the UVA Leaderhship Circle is to host a medical hackathon that will get hundreds of students involved in healthcare entrepreneurship at UVA in a fun, relaxing and engaging way. The student-run organization that will put the hackathon together will be a new student-run club called Emerging Medical Technology Ventures, or EMTV. The end goal of the hackathon is two-fold:

*One, to recruit young students of different backgrounds and majors to join EMTV

~~== Host a Conference~~ *And two, have hackathon participants carry out projets that ~~brings entrepreneurial minded students together at the University of Virginia ==<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><li>This will allow for the cross-pollination of ideas and people</li><li>Also builds~~ result from the ~~innovation environment close to uva</li><li>Establishes our University space as a central innovation hub</li></ul>~~hackathon

A medical hackathon could serve as the spark for serious undergraduate involvement in healthcare and medical technology innovation. The reason for emphasis on recruiting young students is to help ensure that the UVA community can continually become engaged in medical technology and healthcare innovation for at least 3 years, as demonstrated by additional hackathons and successful project grant applications.

'''Team Leaders: '''[http://universityinnovation.org/Dasha%20Tyshlek Dasha Tyshlek], [http://universityinnovation.org/Rachel%20Smith Rachel Smith], [http://universityinnovation.org/Kelly%20Thomas Kelly Thomas], [http://universityinnovation.org/Anish%20Dalal Anish Dalal], Alex Zorychta and David Chen (Director of UVA Coulter Foundation Program)

~~== Develop~~ '''Milestones:''' *Attend a ~~strong mentoring system between students at the University and alumni ==<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line~~large-~~height: 20px; color: rgb(68~~scale, ~~68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">~~professional medical hackathon to determine optimal ways of hosting them~~<li>This idea stems from the observation that~~ *Recruit at least 5 first to second year students ~~are not exposed~~ to help organize the ~~entrepreneurial scene early enough. By the time they~~ first hackathon and eventually lead EMTV*Obtain faculty advisors who have ~~a chance~~ medicine, engineering and/or business backgrounds to ~~explore their ideas~~ advise on design challenges for hackathons and ~~jump into innovation, they are often 3rd and 4th~~ provde additional mentoring to students who pursue projects after hackathons *Have at least 3 hackathon projects within 2 years~~, and are already indoctrined into~~ place in the ~~"natural" engineering career path~~ [http://innovation.virginia.<edu/~~li><li>This mentoring program will allow younger students to get exposed to ideas and involved early<~~events/~~li>~~ecup University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup] or obtain some sort of competitive funding~~<li>This could also be supplemented with faculty support.~~ *At ~~other Universities, faculty spin off their research to undergrads to create start ups and I believe with strong student-faculty relationships, this can also happen at UVa.</li>~~least one startup formed within 5 years = University of Virginia Wiki Page = ~~</ul>~~[[University of Virginia|University of Virginia]]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/Kelly%20Thomas Kelly Thomas]

~~Current UIF Candidates:~~

[[Angela Liu|Angela Liu]]

[[Katie Yi Tong Kan|Katie Kan]]

Current UIF Candidates: [[Tarun kalakoti|Tarun Kalakoti]] [[Justis Midura|Justis Midura]] [[Keaton Wadzinski|Keaton Wadzinski]] [[Arnab Sarker|Arnab Sarker]] [[Category:Student Priorities|u]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Student_Priorities]][[Category:University of Virginia]]

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