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= Strategic Priorities for Strategy#1  Expose students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Berea College Campus =

[[Priority== Tactics#1: Start.1 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Meet-up weekends/ Idea Pitches|<span style="font-size:x-large;">'''Priority #1: Start-up weekends/ Idea Pitches'''</span>]]=

<span style="font-size'''Description:medium'''&nbsp;">Provide an opportunities for budding entrepreneurs A 1-2 day conference event based in Berea College and free to work on their ideasall students, pitches, and get funding for and feedback on their ideas. Hosted on the college campus, students which will have the chance to build upon act as an idea that engages problems occurring on the micro level, while also being mentoredintroductory/judged by experts exploratory course in the fieldI&E. We The event will have professors from Computer Scienceinclude panels, workshops, Businessand discussions highlighting the application of Entrepreneurship, EconomicsInnovation, Technology and Applied Design Thinking to act as judges, and have local businesses provide financial awards that creates a partnership through I&E principlesall disciplines. The first night of the eventStudents could network with innovators within their field, we will teach students concepts such as Design Thinking which can help in refine their idea processescritical thinking skills, and skills they can use after explore the weekend it completevarieties of entrepreneurship available.</span>&nbsp;

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''LeadersMilestones: '''Eugeniu Prodan, Anthony Ayebiahwe</span>

<span style="font*Meet with the Dean and Faculty for partnerships and resources (Spring 2018)*Establish a date and reach out to off-size:medium;">'''Milestone: '''First campus resources (Spring 2018)*Format and organize panels, workshops, spaces and presenters (Summer 2018)*Begin marketing to students and encouraging faculty participation (Fall 2018)*Execute event, Spring 2015</span>and receive feedback (Fall 2018)*Analyze event feedback and pivot (Winter 2018)

'''''<span style="font-size:medium;">Tactic = Tactics#1</span>'''''.2 A Date With Design Thinking ==

*<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Building a team to lead the organization of events'''</span>*<span style="font-sizeDescription:medium;">'''Choosing A Date With Design Thinking will be a suitable date and venue to host the event'''</span>*<span style="fontquarterly one-size:medium;">'''Reaching out hour long design thinking workshop series for interdisciplinary students. It is intended to speakers, coaches, familiarize and judges'''</span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Promoting engage students with the event concept of design thinking through a fun series of activities. This workshop is designed to not only expand I&E to a bigger audience on campus and the community'''</span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Sourcing local sponsorships but to help cover event costs and managing the event budget'''</span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Managing food, drink, and supplies for the event'''</span>also engage them in addressing existing problems on campus.

[[Priority#1: Start-up weekends/ Idea Pitches|<span style="font-size:x*Launch A Date With Design Thinking series with a small scale workshop reaching 20 students (Spring 2016 -large;">'''Priority #2: Berea Innovation Studio (BIScompleted) and Creative Space'''</span>]]

<span style="font-size:medium;">Our delivery methodology will be *Evaluate the success and failure of the workshop and review feedback of participants to create a space, an innovation studio, where we will strive to foster activities that encourage and support innovation on campus, especially among revise the plan of the student body.</span>workshop (Spring 2016)

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Leaders:''' Robert Hosking*Collaborate with different departments such as Dining Services, Jacob Heller</span>Café, Sustainability Department, TAD and Computer Science to address problems within the department and design workshops centered towards the issues discussed (Fall 2016)

·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-size:medium;">Start, Fall 2015Strategy#2 Create Opportunities for students to learn and experiment<br/span>=

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''''Tactic = Tactics#2.1'''''<b>''''':''''' Offer assistance and help to last years UIF Fellows in executing their already well-developed strategy</b></span>PopUp Classes ==

<span style="font-sizefamily:mediumArial, Verdana, sans-serif;">'''''Tactic #2''Description: '''PopUp Classes is intended to be short and elective classes and workshops to provide curious students, innovators, problem-solvers and <b/span>'''''lifetime learners<span style="font-family:''''' Ensure that once these UIF Fellows graduateArial, Verdana, sans-serif;">with vital soft skills in their toolbox. It is inspired by the club will continue interest and need of various innovative, entrepreneurial and be led by practical skills such as blogging and web designing but a new UIF Fellow or EPG Member</bspan>lack of<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">flexible and informal environment to teach them in a brief time.</span>

'''<span style="font-sizefamily:mediumArial, Verdana, sans-serif;">'''''Tactic #3''Milestones:'''''&nbsp;'''''Utilize connections within the Student Government Association to execute and articulate this proposed club in a way that it will be approved'''</span>'''

*Reach out to all clubs &nbsp;organizations on campus to identify what their community is interested to learn (Mar 15, 2016)

[[Priority#1: Start-up weekends/ Idea Pitches|<span style="font-size:x-large;">'''Priority #3: Lobby *Develop a format or structure for I&E Principles in General Studies Program'''</span>]]PopUp Classes (Mar 30, 2016)

<span style="font-size:medium;">Should *Identify a list of students/faculty who would be mandated for every student as part of Berea College's General Studies program, but more specifically interested in conducting the General Studies Classes offered to Freshman PopUps (GSTR 110) and to Seniors (GSTR 410). &nbsp;These classes may be subject-specificApr 10, and offered as seminars (e.g. Entrepreneurship for Biology and/or Chemistry; Entrepreneurship for Engineering and/or Technology2016). Also, the incorporation of I&E concepts can be implemented in a project-based learning environment for real-life application within the community and for interdisciplinary collaboration.</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Lead Person:'''&nbsp;Tran Nguyen*Prototype first PopUp (April 15, Dylan Mullins</span>2016)

*<span style="font-size:large;">Initiate conversations with Administration, Summer 2015= Tactics# 2.2 Open Lab Days<br/span>*<span style="font-size:large;">Seek to have agenda featured at faculty meetings, Fall 2015</span>=

''<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Tactic #1Description:'''</span>''Open Lab Days are weekends, where the labs in the Physics and TAD departments (Technology and Applied Design Department) will be open at specific times Students would be given the chance to participate in laboratories on weekends such as &nbsp;the Physics machine shop with the help of collaboration between the Society of Physics Students and Physics department. Similar collaborations would take place between the Tech club and the Technology department. This will help students from various departments to become more creative with their prototypes which will also encourage them to pursue STEM careers.

*<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Prepare the campus for the I&E concepts via various events from Priority #1.'''</span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Gain the support of the student, faculty, and staff for the above-mentioned events (realize the need for I&E concepts)'''</span>*<span style="font-sizeMilestones:medium;">'''Initiate the conversation with the Administration (proposal, presentation during the faculty meeting, etc.) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;'''</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span styleStrategy#3 Provide opportunities for students to test new ideas ="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our delivery methodology will be to create a space, an innovation studio, where we will strive to foster activities that encourage and support innovation on campus, especially among the student body.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: Tactics#3.1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This studio will be known as the Berea Innovation Studio (BIS).</span></span>Idea Bounce ==

<span style="font-size'''Description:medium'''Berea Innovation Studio (BIS) &nbsp;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; linehosts Idea Bounce every semester. Students from different majors participate in an idea pitch competition. Prior to the actual event, participants attend an hour workshop where they are trained to develop their idea and pitch. This competition was started by last year’s UIFs hunting for creativity and problem-height: 1solving skills across campus.4&nbsp; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif&nbsp;">Within the BIS, we will have:</span></span>

== <span style="font-family'''Milestones: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">Five Strategic Priorities</span> =='''

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A partnership with the Computer Science Department to foster coding skills, by hosting 2-hour workshops at least every fortnight *Open submission for initial ideas and thoughts (two weeksfourth week of each semester), on Saturday mornings.</span></span>

<span style*Coach the applicants: How to pitch ideas in 2 minutes (seventh week of each semester) *Hold Idea Bounce (eighth week of each semester) == Tactics#3.2 Idea State U =="margin '''Description: 0px'''&nbsp;Idea State U is a Kentucky statewide business competition to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship by rewarding student teams from the Commonwealth’s colleges and universities, &nbsp; paddingEntrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program sponsors selected Berea College students to participate in this state idea competition. Students are coached by the director of EPG and guided throughout the whole process. One of the major achievements of past Berea college applicants was last year when a team of two freshman and one sophomore won the third place beating MBA students. This achievement is and will always be an inspiration and empowerment. '''Milestones: 0px; line''' *Start with identifying the problems and recognizing opportunities (early February) *Finalize Teams (mid-February) *Organize weekly training sessions with Faculty Sponsor (mid-February - mid-March) *Conduct customer discovery in order to gain empathy and develop business idea and plan (mid-February - mid-heightMarch) *Participate in Idea State U (end of March) *Winners follow up with the angel investors (early April) == Tactics#3.3 StartUp Weekend Berea (New) == '''Description: 1''' Berea Innovation Studio (BIS), in collaboration with Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program, will launch StartUp Weekend Berea during the spring semester. It will be an interdisciplinary event, where participants will work in teams to come up with creative solutions to challenging real-world problems, identified by students. They will develop sustainable Business Models surrounding the solution. A series of workshops will be made available for students to learn and deepen their skills. The event will be gamified to make it also a fun activity. '''Milestones:''' *Identity interested facilitators and meet to finalize event date (Sep 2, 2016) *Design the workshop and action plan (Sep 15, 2016) *Prototype Startup Weekend Berea Model (Oct 15, 2016) *Identify organizations and request for funding (Oct 30, 2016) *Reach out to facilitators to lead different workshops (Oct 30, 2016) *Devise a marketing campaign (Nov 10, 2016)   == Tactics#3.4&nbsp;&nbsp; #BCmakerspaces<br/> == '''Description:&nbsp; '''<span style="font-familysize: ariallarger">#BCmakerspaces will be a monthly rotational Makerspace workshop, helveticaopen to students of all majors. The focus of the pop-up styled class is to teach students the design process and how to prototype, sansby building an object in a specific lab using whatever materials that space is designed to process. Examples include “make-a-serif;">Milestonesmug”, “website 101”, “build-a-box”, etc. The Danforth Technology building currently boasts a variety of makerspaces, including a:Digital Crafts Lab, MAC & 3D Printing Lab, Woods Lab, Metals Lab, Ceramics Lab, Appalachian Crafts Lab, and the Graphics Lab- which features a dark room and a soundproof recording studio. Highlighting the existent Makers Spaces on campus will promote cross-departmental communication, and perhaps expand student interest into new fields previously unconsidered.</span> '''Milestones:'''<ul style="marginlist-style-type: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6emsquare; padding"><li><span style="font-size: 0px; linelarger">Host a Stakeholder meeting with I&E champions to discuss establishing #BCmakerspaces (Feb 2018)</span></li><li><span style="font-heightsize: 20.15999984741211px; color: rgb(68larger">Partner with sponsors, involved Departments, Faculty & staff to conduct a thorough SWOT analysis with special consideration given to budgeting, 68staff hours, 68safety precautions (Feb 2018); </span></li><li><span style="font-familysize: Arial, sanslarger">Visit 2-serif; 3 other Makerspaces to observe operations & training procedures (February & March 2018)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;larger">Conduct extensive customer discovery to determine what needs #BCmakerspaces can satisfy (March 2018)</span></li><li><span style="marginfont-size: 0px; padding: 0px; linelarger">Coordinate with the TAD department to host the first makerspace event (April 2018)</span></li><li><span style="font-heightsize: 1larger">Gather Feedback about the #BCmakerspaces event, strategize and plan accordingly.4; (April & May 2018)</span></li><li><span style="font-familysize: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;larger">Space and coding instructors search, August-September, 2014Coordinate with participating departments to form a schedule of #BCmakerspaces classes (Summer 2018)</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; linefont-heightsize: 1.4; larger">Develop a Marketing Plan for #BCmakerspaces (Summer 2018)</span></li><li><span style="font-familysize: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;larger">First event, first week of October, 2014Launch #BCmakerspaces and continue to gather data (Fall 2018)</span></li>

=Strategy#4 Inspire students to pursue I&E<br/> = == Tactics#4.1 Inspirational Talks == '''Description:''' To encourage students to pursue entrepreneurship we plan to hold TEDxBerea starting the Fall 2016 term. This will create excitement amongst students to learn the value of the entrepreneurial mindset while helping them understand the importance of failure, design thinking and prototyping. '''<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arialArial, helveticaVerdana, sans-serif;">​Milestones:</span>''P2P Ideas Review''<br *Talk to Dean/> President to get permission (April 2016) *TEDxBerea license application (April 2016) *Pick the event type and brainstorm ideas for the program (May 2016) *Logistic planning and fund allocation (June 2016) *Choose a tentative date for the event (July 2016) *Invite speakers (July 2016) *Branding and marketing (August - September 2016) ==Tactics#4.2 Innovation Coffee Stop == '''Description:''' Starting in Fall 2018 we will open a home-made, bring-your-own-mug coffee stop on campus in order to facilitate and ecourage innovation between students on campus. Being in the coffee stop will provide two major benefits to the students:

At the BIS*Students can work on projects, start new projects, encourage students or get help on academic related problems fostering collaboration between majors*We will be providing monthly events to share ideas, provide feedback for each other, showcase the power of ideation and practice pitches innovation including prototyping challenges and presentations.pop up classes

<span style'''Milestones:''' *Present idea to Faculty Champion and discuss the possibility of an allocated neutral space (February 2018)*Discuss with key head departments - Technology and Applied Design, Computer Science, Natural Sciences, Business and Economics, Art (March 2018)*Submit proposal to the Dean (March 2018)*Identifying sponsors in the key departments (April - May 2018)*Invite speakers for grand opening panel (July 2018)*Plan and organize the grand opening (July - August 2018)*Marketing efforts around campus (July - August 2018)*Grand Opening/Panel Event (August 2018) ="marginRelated Links = [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berea_College Berea College] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berea_College_Student_Priorities Berea College Student Priorities] '''University Innovation Fellows''' Spring 2018: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andreea_Teban Andreea Teban] [http: 0px; padding//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Julia_Roberts Julia Roberts] [http: 0px; line-height//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kayla_barbour Kayla Barbour] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodney_Kimbangu Rodney Kimbangu]   Spring 2016: [http: 1//universityinnovation.4; font-familyorg/wiki/Ishwar%20Agarwal Ishwar Agarwal] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bessaad%20Syrine Bessaad Syrine] [http: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead Person//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Minashsha%20Zareel%20Lamisa Minashsha Lamisa] [http: Ali Djire</span>/universityinnovation.org/wiki/Talha%20Rehman Talha Rehman]

<span style="marginSpring 2015: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead Person: Solomon Alolga</span>

<span style="margin[http: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1//universityinnovation.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Partners: Technology Club, Technology Department, and Computer Science Department<org/wiki/span>Tran%20K.%20Nguyen Tran Nguyen]

<span style="margin[http: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Milestones:</span><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><li><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">First event, November 2014</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1universityinnovation.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Draft calendars of events and stakeholder meetings, Fall 2014</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Next event, Spring 2015</span>''<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">​</span>''<org/li><wiki/ul>Dylan%20mullins Dylan Mullins]

=== Hackathon and start-up preparation camps[http:&nbsp;Provide an opportunities for budding entrepreneurs to work on their ideas, pitches, and get funding for and feedback on their ideas//universityinnovation. During the initial stages, these endeavors should serve to prepare these students to participate in other, established regional start-up camps and weekends. ===org/wiki/Jacob%20Heller Jacob Heller]

<span style="margin[http: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1//universityinnovation.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaders: Solomon Alolga and&nbsp;Ali Djire<org/wiki/span>Eugeniu%20Prodan Eugeniu Prodan]

<span style="margin[http: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Milestone:</span><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><li><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1/universityinnovation.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">First event, Spring 2015</span><org/li><wiki/ul>Anthony%20Ayebiahwea Anthony Ayebiahwea]

=== Design projects for businesses and community[http:&nbsp;Partner with businesses and organizations in the community to work on projects that can be solved through innovation//universityinnovation. A business andorg/wiki/or community partner would provide a challenge, and a team of students would develop and design a solution, using the BIS. ===Robert%20Hosking Robert Hosking]

<span style="marginSpring 2014: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead Person: Sandra Tombe</span>

<span style="margin[http: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Milestones:</span><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><li><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Initiate conversations with Administration, Summer 2014</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1universityinnovation.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Seek to have agenda featured at faculty meetings, Fall 2014</span><org/li><wiki/ul>Ali%20Djire Ali Djire]

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