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= Overview =

Smith College is a small women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. With our liberal arts education, few requirements, and encouragement to think collaboratively, Smith students have developed interdisciplinary mindsets that thrive on an innovative campus. With three makerspaces on campus, classes in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and workshops for faculty, Smith has an abundance of resources to help cultivate innovation within the student body. Yet, due to lack of advertising and lack of reaching out, many students with great ideas have missed the opportunity to develop them further. Our goals, which are detailed below in greater detail, will help foster this growth and awareness of innovation on campus. From a concentration to a maker market, our goals engage with students in a variety of settings in order to reach out to a wider set of scholars. While this is our first year with University Innovations Fellows on campus, we hope to start a dialogue amongst students, faculty, and the administration in which we instigate change and advocate for a more entrepreneurial campus.

= Strategies for Change =

== Strategy 01: ~~Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields~~Fostering Collaboration Outside of Classroom-based Team Projects</span~~><br/~~> ==

=== ~~~~~~Transdiciplinary Action~~Skill Exchange Sunday</span~~><br/~~> ===

~~~~Program Pitch: ~~Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed~~ Skill Exchange Sunday is a program for innovators to meet every week in ~~the I&E culture~~ a designated space at a specific time to work on ~~Smith campus~~ their ongoing projects. Students are welcome even if they do not have a project of their own, and ~~that it was directed more towards business and humanities~~ can collaborate with/help other studentson their projects. ~~On the contrary,~~ The idea is to learn new skills from each other by working collaboratively on new ideas in a space where you can find like-minded people as well as people who may have completely different skill sets from you who you can learn from. Skill Exchange Sunday allows students ~~from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was~~ to acquire new skills as well as learn to be more ~~for engineering~~ comfortable working collaboratively with strangers. There is an apparent need to encourage students to pursue team projects outside of group assignments on their own based on this personal interests and ~~other STEM students~~passions. ~~However~~Such support would also encourage innovation and entrepreneurship on campus, as students ~~from both fields were interested in learning ways that they could~~ would be more inclined towards exploring ideas and applying a variety of ~~use in I&E culture~~skills to their creative pursuits.</span~~></font~~>

== ~~To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in~~ Strategy 02: Encouraging and Improving I&E ~~culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection~~ Culture Outside of the ~~arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I&E culture and become encouraged to create innovative change on campus and beyond.~~Academic Curriculum ==

=== ~~Maker Market~~Inno-Fest~~ =~~==

<span style="~~font~~caret-~~size: 14.6667px;~~ color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ~~background-~~color: ~~transparent~~rgb(0, 0, 0); ~~vertical~~font-~~align~~size: ~~baseline~~11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Program Pitch: ~~The Maker Market~~ Inno-fest is ~~platform for students to sell [only] the fruits~~ a celebration of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment innovations and ~~receive feedback before stepping into the real world,~~ small entrepreneurship on campus and ~~provide~~ a ~~place~~ space for ~~other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on exchange that is not yet valued by the ~~amount of students interested~~current academic curriculum but might be beneficial beyond a college setting. ~~Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running~~ By creating a ~~small business,~~ time and space where students ~~interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform~~ and local town folks can come together to ~~test~~ share their ~~product, receive feedback,~~ unique talents and ~~possibly even make sales in a safe~~the things that they are passionate about, ~~low-risk environment. For buyers~~not only do students immediately benefit from learning practical skills from each other, ~~the market will give them~~ but also fosters a ~~place to buy one~~ community that inspires innovation and entrepreneurship through recognizing that they can exist both within and outside of a ~~kind, handmade items~~standard classroom setting. ~~Based~~ There is an apparent need for students on ~~interest in the market, we would reach out~~ campus to continue to learn from and collaborate with each other beyond the ~~Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up~~ round bulletin board can add a ~~space for the market, ideally~~ human aspect and provide a ~~physical~~ continuous space ~~so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups~~ for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest skill sharing and ~~start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body~~peer inspiration.~~

=== ~~Social Entrepreneurship~~Strategy 03: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields = ==

=== <~~span style~~font face="~~font-family:~~ arial, helvetica, sans-serif"~~>~~Program Pitch:~~Transdiciplinary Action</~~span~~font><br/~~span~~>~~Proposed Issue: The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors:  economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information.==

<~~span style~~font face="~~font-family:~~ arial, helvetica, sans-serif"~~>Program Pitch:Many students from the Picker Engineering Department feel unwelcomed in the I&~~nbsp; One way representation from Social Sciences~~ E culture on Smith campus and ~~Humanities can increase for innovation~~ that it was directed more towards business and ~~entrepreneurship courses, workshops~~humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other ~~opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities~~ STEM students. However, students from both fields were interested in learning ways that ~~would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors~~they could be of use in I&E culture.</~~span></spanfont>

~~~~<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ~~background~~font-~~color~~family: ~~transparent; vertical~~arial, helvetica, sans-~~align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap~~serif">~~Proposal : Create a series that focuses on different aspects of~~ To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I & E culture, a workshop that ~~could appeal~~ teaches students how to non-traditional Humanities and Social Science Majors Lunch and Learns: Change making in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship world Panels and Info sessions: Social science and humanities Smith alums involved in explore the ~~world~~ intersection of ~~I & E talk about why these majors matter to~~ the arts, humanities, and sciences could change how students view I & E ~~world Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling~~ culture and ~~pitching a business idea Another way is~~ become encouraged to ~~present different aspects of  I & E Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups) Workshops: Social Enterprises~~ create innovative change on campus and ~~Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human- centered designs) Design Thinking for Humanities majors~~beyond.

=== ~~Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures~~Maker Market ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. ~~Innovators’ Mentorship Program~~In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body. ~~===~~

=== Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship ~~Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.~~===

Program Pitch:<span style="background-~~family~~color: transparent; color: ~~arial~~rgb(0, ~~helvetica~~0, ~~sans-serif~~0); font-size: ~~large~~14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">~~Strategy 03~~The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center have four core pillars including innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial education. The 2016-2017 annual report from the conway center shared data on who attends their workshops and courses. 70% of the student enrolled in entrepreneurship under the center have the following majors: ~~Encouraging~~   economics, psychology, and math, government, and neuroscience. 11% are undeclared majors and 19% represent the other majors including students whose majors may fall under Humanities or Social Science. Most popular majors for innovation events economics and engineering majors. There is a high concentration of economics students especially participating in events regarding entrepreneurship and innovation ~~among faculty~~and a small percentage of humanities and social science majors participating in these opportunities. The conway center runs independent to any other department on campus and is open to all students of any major or area of interest. Why not all major categories, STEM, Humanities, and Social Science equally taking courses and attending events? The issue proposed is Humanities and Social science majors do not have a significant presence in the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Smith. There could be a number of reasons from the issue with how courses and workshops are advertised to who is included and excluded receiving information. ==

~~EduStudio~~Program Pitch:  One way representation from Social Sciences and Humanities can increase for innovation and entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and other opportunities is to advertise events and opportunities that would generally interest Social Science and Humanities majors. ~~===~~

~~Program Pitch~~Proposal : ~~EduStudio allows faculty~~ Create a series that focuses on different aspects of I & E that could appeal to ~~develop~~ non-traditional Humanities and ~~design new teaching tools, methods~~ Social Science Majors Lunch and ~~assignments~~ Learns: Change making in the Innovation and ~~experiment with new~~ Entrepreneurship world Panels and ~~innovative techniques. Besides giving students~~ Info sessions: Social science and ~~teachers a new way~~ humanities Smith alums involved in the world of ~~assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn~~ I & E talk about ~~key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.~~why these majors matter to the I & E world<br/~~span~~>Storytelling Session: The parallels of storytelling and pitching a business idea<br/~~span~~>Another way is to present different aspects of  I & E Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (multi-major groups)<~~span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"~~br/>~~<span style="font-size~~Workshops: ~~14.6667px; font~~Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations (socially aware and human-~~family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0~~centered designs)~~; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap"~~ EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking ~~Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.~~for Humanities majors

== Strategy 04: ~~Accommodating~~ Preparing Students for ~~disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction~~the Business World ==

~~~~~~The main library at~~ Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared.Business Model Canvas Competition~~~~==

~~=== ~~<span style="font-~~size~~family: ~~18.6667px~~Arial; font-~~family~~size: ~~Arial~~11pt; ~~color~~white-space: ~~rgb(67, 67, 67)~~pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ~~font~~caret-~~weight~~color: ~~400~~rgb(0, 0, 0); ~~vertical-align~~color: ~~baseline~~rgb(0, 0, 0); ~~white-space: pre-wrap~~">~~Pop-up Study Spaces~~Program Pitch:<The Smith Business Model Canvas Competition is an annual competition designed to take an entire day of researching and building a Business Model Canvas. Given a problem/prompt, participants organized in teams of 4 will research their prompt, identify a solution and think of business idea that could solve the problem they are given. Then they will sketch out their business idea and create a Business Model Canvas for their potential business. At the Poster Session, they will get feedback on the canvas from entrepreneurs. The event will be finalized by workshop/~~span><~~presentation from Smith’s innovation/~~span>~~entrepreneurship center on building a Business Model Canvas. Our intent is to create an opportunity for students to learn how to make business model canvas for their personal businesses. Business model canvases are an essential part of the business world especially for small startups that are trying to attract investors. Teaching students this essential component of the building a business makes them competitive in the business world.      ~~===~~

~~~~= <span style="~~wrap; font-~~size~~family: ~~14.6667px~~arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-~~family~~size: ~~Arial~~large; color: rgb(0105, 0105, 0105)~~; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap~~">~~Program Pitch~~Strategy 05: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  PopDeveloping resources for post-~~Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs~~ graduation pursuit of ~~its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, innovative and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors).entrepreneurial ventures==

Innovators’ Mentorship Program Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale. This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations. == Strategy 06: Encouraging innovation among students and faculty == === Innovation Playground === Program Pitch:The Innovation Playground is an outdoor space for exploration and creative recharge. Learning new tools and skills can be really daunting; Even when the tools and material are available it is difficult to find the time to learn without a specific project. This proposed playground gives students the space to experiment with hand tools without the expectation of an end product. Elements like a work bench, nail and graffiti wall, fort, swing and slide let visitors exercise their creativity and imaginations in a safe environment. The space is meant to be changeable so that visitors can add on or tear down as they wish, allowing the space morph over the course of the year and be reset at the start of the next. [https://drive.google.com/a/smith.edu/file/d/16HSWsmTOVeCaacf_Bd76MpoVAucW-cWG/view?usp=sharing Prototype Feedback Video](x1.5 speed recommended) === EduStudio === Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods. === Innovation Library === Program Pitch:The Innovation Library has an idea board that includes some thought-provoking questions such as “What’s on your mind?”, “What keeps you up at night?”, “What’s the one thing you want to change at Smith?” Students and faculty members can post sticky notes with their thoughts anytime. There is a special prompt on the idea board every other week, and the person who suggests the best answer, voted by the Smith community, will receive 5$ Campus Center/ Grecourt Bookshop gift card. The Innovation Library also has small maker-space and short coffee-break sessions with discussions / talks about I&E, design thinking and other issues on campus. There are posters and flyers around the library, and there are bookmarks that advertise I&E resources. The wordings in the bookmarks are tailored to academic fields so that students will respond better to those opportunities. == Strategy 07: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction == The main library at Smith College is under major renovation. It will be under construction for the next two years. Talking to students on campus, this has already disrupted their daily routines from lack of accessibility of walkways to lack to study spaces. More students study in their dorm rooms now since their major study spots have disappeared. === Pop-up Study Spaces === Program Pitch: The Pop-Up Study Space allows students to study outdoors in a place they can make their own amidst the turmoil caused by library construction on campus.  Students don’t need to stay in their cramped rooms due to the loss of their favorite study space.  Pop-Up Study Spaces will adapt to the needs of its users.  The Study Space is created by pushing together two white boards, providing sticky notes, whiteboard markers, tables, and chairs.  Students can hold meetings, study with a friend, or cram for a test while enjoying the outdoors!  This Study Space would remain in a single location for a single week.  At this time, students would crowdsource a new location for the makerspace.  We will start with a single pilot Study Space before opening up additional Study Spaces tailored to the specific needs of each major (e.g. computer monitors for Computer Science majors). = Project Pitch Video =

[https://youtu.be/UgK5njznGgE Smith College Project Pitch Fall 2016]

'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2017:'''<div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/Lisa%20Feiden Lisa Feiden] </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/Nybria%20Acklin Nybria Acklin] </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/LUCY%20KNEISSLER Lucy Kneissler] </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/Haven%20Sandoval Haven Sandoval] </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"></div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Van_nguyen Van Nguyen]</div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">~~'''~~'''University Innovation Fellows Fall 2016:'''~~'''~~ </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Amanda_Lavond Amanda Lavond]  </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mandira_Marambe Mandira Marambe]  </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lingxuan_Li Lingxuan Li]  </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Innis Jessica Innis]  </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px"> </div><div style="font-size: 13.5135px">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yi%20Wang Yi Wang]</div>

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