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~~Student PrioritiesThere are many projects that need to be implemented at Stony Brook University in order for the push towards entrepreneurship and innovation to occur. There have been some lone initiatives that have taken place which have seeked to inspire students to create and apply their design capabilities, though they have only been able to attract a small range of students. The goal of the campus is to become more of a collaborative community that nurtures students and assists in developing their abilities to create new products and resources. The primary mission of any academic institution is to allow students to expand their talents and to provide them with the resources they need to succeed. Having a cache of resources available to students but as well as creating a community that fosters collaboration allows students to not only interact with students of different disciplines but also opens up the resources that they would not have normally sought out.The current UIF Fellow, [http://universityinnovation.org/Saba%20Khalid Saba_Khalid], is looking to develop the foundations for such a community by creating key partnerships with departments all across campus. One of the primary interests is to sign on the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) as leaders in pushing forward to provide students with opportunities to design products and collaborate with other departments across campus. Moreover, the fellow is looking to hold a Town Hall style meeting with CEAS leaders and its students once a semester so that students can identify what resources they want from CEAS to be available to them on campus. More so, this will also give CEAS and Stony Brook University a better idea of what students are seeking to learn and tailor their academic offerings accordingly.Furthermore, to promote an atmosphere that cultivates innovation, the fellow is planning on launching a design competition, known as the Catalyst Challenge. The Challenge will require that teams of students be composed of at least one engineering and one business students, with a maximum of 5 members. It will be modeled after the 3-day startup and the Techcrunch Disrupt Challenge; the challenge will take place over the course of a weekend. Students will be required to submit an initial proposal of what they are seeking to build and design, understanding that they would have to achieve it in the course of 48 hours. Based on their proposals, about 10 ideas will be selected by the organizers and invited to participate in the challenge. Throughout the course of the weekend, teams will design and present their product to a panel of investors and company representatives on why their idea is worthy of investment. The panel will judge each team and give them ratings based on whether or not their idea is innovative and if their team has a strong business plan. The team with the highest rating will be given prize money for their idea and will have a member present their idea at TedXSBU. This challenge will allow students to not only network with each other but create vital industry partnerships they normally would not have been given the opportunity to do so. This project is highly doable, though it heavily requires the support of the institution.{{#Widget:Youtube|id=YPNXcWF-ao4}}~~'''Related Links'''

~~[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Stony_Brook_University_(SUNY)~~ <~~font face~~span style="~~Arial"~~ font-size~~="2~~:larger;">~~Stony Brook~~ Following are actions to be undertaken by the University ~~Campus Overview~~Innovation Fellow and their team in order to advance Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities for students, while also working to initiate institutional change:</~~font~~span>]

= Action A: Engaging Current Student Entrepreneurship = '''''Approach#1: Design Competition: The Catalyst Challenge'''''A design competition, known as the Catalyst Challenge. The Challenge will require that teams of students be composed of at least one engineering and one business students, with a maximum of 5 members. It will be modeled after the 3-day startup and the Techcrunch Disrupt Challenge; the challenge will take place over the course of a weekend. Students will be required to submit an initial proposal of what they are seeking to build and design, understanding that they would have to achieve it in the course of 48 hours. Based on their proposals, about 10 ideas will be selected by the organizers and invited to participate in the challenge. Throughout the course of the weekend, teams will design and present their product to a panel of investors and company representatives on why their idea is worthy of investment. The panel will judge each team and give them ratings based on whether or not their idea is innovative and if their team has a strong business plan. The team with the highest rating will be given prize money for their idea and will have a member present their idea at TedXSBU. This challenge will allow students to not only network with each other but create vital industry partnerships they normally would not have been given the opportunity to do so.'''Milestones: '''Have more than 25 applications for the Challenge with interdisciplinary teams '''Goal: '''Have more students aware of the campus resources avaialble '''Project Champion:''' Saba Khalid = Action B: Facilitating Faculty-Student Interaction and Partnerships = '''''Approach#1: '''CEAS Town Hall Meetings''The fellow is looking to hold a Town Hall style meeting with CEAS leaders and students once a semester so that students can identify what resources they want from CEAS to be available to them on campus. CEAS and Stony Brook University will also have a better idea of what students are seeking to learn and tailor their academic offerings accordingly.'''Goal: '''To foster strong student and faculty partnerships with CEAS departments '''Milestones: '''There are more undergraduate student researchers participating in URECA as well as higher participation in the meetings as well. '''Project Champion''': Saba Khalid = Action C: Increasing Collaboration within Different Disciplines = '''''Approach#1''''''': ''''Creating a multidisciplinary space on campus'''''The development of a multidisciplinary space on campus may take more than a couple of years to push through. The space will be an expansion of the Innovation ~~Fellow~~Lab with students having access to multiple resources that vary from hardware tools to sculpting supplies. Moreover, the space will hold seminars once a month featuring or highlighting a critical and emerging field, while displaying a startup of the week to inspire students to create more. It will be a center that will essentially be the leader of anything entrepreneurial guiding students to develop their idea as well as helping them launch their company.'''Goal: '''Develop critical partnerships with students and professors of different disciplines '''Milestones''': More students partnering up to work on projects at the space; senior design projects developed on multidisciplinary levels  '''Project Champion''': TBD''{{#Widget:Youtube|id=YPNXcWF-ao4}}''= Related Links = [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/~~Saba_Khalid Saba Khalid~~Stony_Brook_University_(SUNY) Stony Brook University Campus Overview] [http://www.stonybrook.edu/ Stony Brook University Official Website] [http://you.stonybrook.edu/innovationlab/ Stony Brook University Innovation Lab] '''University Innovation Fellow: '''[[Saba Khalid|Saba Khalid]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Stony_Brook_University]][[Category:Student_Priorities]]{{CatTree|Stony_Brook_University}}

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