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<span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">'''Alexandra SedaOhio Northern University'''</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Ohio Northern University,'''</span> <span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">'''UIF Spring 2015 ''' </span>
She is an electrical engineering student at Ohio Northern University that has participated in NEWB (Northern Engineers without Borders) and EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) where she gained some experience in international projects. The two countries she participated in projects with were the Dominican Republic and Haiti. She enjoys spending her time participating in community service oriented opportunities that help empower the people being served, as well as, helping her gain a fresh perspective on life. Her interests include social entrepreneurship, local & international service, design thinking, brainstorming, and anything that calls for creativity. Her faith in Christ is what inspires her to live each day as a gift and serve others without hesitation. She greatly values education, and has taken the mantra that learning is a lifelong process that will involve countless people and amazing stories along the way.
After the students created and voted upon a name: ION (Innovators of Ohio Northern), the students were split into teams. The project space was the freshman design studio where only a few engineering students studied, this space was the only lounge space for engineering students in the building. The leaders and Alexandra hosted an ideation session that overviewed the components of design thinking through roleplaying of the space. Students were able to observe and record observations about student needs in the space and the layout themes of rest, study, and collaboration. The teams sketched, and prototyped with Expo markers, Play-Doh, and Legos.
The student teams had two weeks to finalize a design of the design studio that hit each of the necessary themes and present the design to the dean. The final design encompassed aspects of each teams’ design. The build took place during Easter weekend of 2015 and the recreated space was a success. Since then Alexandra has discovered a passion for design and helping others uncover creativity and ways they can apply it.
A second project took place with a rotation of new project leaders. The focus of the project was the hallways. The project definitely had an impact on the students with the addition of a hallway whiteboard where students could write updates about current or future events, a splash of color to the formerly blank alcoves, and a reorganization of the scattered school pictures. While the project was finished, a key element missing was the ideation session and team comradery. ION learned that anytime design or recreation of objects or spaces take place, there has to be a session where design thinking is applied and the teams create prototypes with the discoveries made.
Currently, Adam Berry and Alexandra will be hosting a third event in the first floor of the university library. Heterick Library will be completely renovated in the summer of 2016. The director of the library and library committee allowed them to host an ideation session on individual and group collaboration spaces in order to understand exactly what the students need in the space. More details will be coming soon.
= Related Links = [[Ohio Northern University]] [[Ohio Northern University Student Priorities|<span style="font-size:xx-largemedium;">Ohio Northern University Student Priorities</span>]] <span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51, 51, 51)medium; ">University Innovation Fellows</span> <span style="font-familysize: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serifmedium; line">Spring 2016:</span> [[Adam Berry|<span style="font-heightsize: 19.6000003814697pxmedium; background">Adam Berry</span>]] [[Nathan Craft|<span style="font-colorsize: rgb(245, 245, 245)medium;">Related LinksNathan Craft</span>]] </spanstyle="font-size:medium;">[[Jonathan Szczerba|Jonathan Szczerba]]<br/span> =
<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Ohio Northern University|Ohio_Northern_University]]Spring 2015:</span>
[[Alexandra v. Seda|<span style="font-size:medium;">[[Ohio Northern University Student Priorities|Ohio_Northern_University_Student_Priorities]]Alexandra v. Seda</span>]]
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