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= STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a3b7d48-7fff-98ed-a793-60ae668685b5"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Air Force Academy has a facility it calls Cyberworx, which is a space on campus where faculty, students, and other military personnel have the ability to combine experience with world-class technology in an effort to tackle problems the Air Force faces every day. This environment encourages design thinking so that Cadets and faculty can fail fast and often, in order to consequently succeed more quickly and frequently. Our Cyberworx facility has recently announced plans to expand into a new and improved building that will, to an even greater extent, promote disruptive and innovative thinking for our future Air Force leaders.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a3b7d48-7fff-98ed-a793-60ae668685b5"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There also exists a Center for Innovation at the Air Force Academy. At this location, cadets can receive sponsorship and funding to perform innovative research projects over the summer. They can also utilize this resource to work on independent research project during the academic year.</span></span>
= UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a3b7d480676ecc0-7fff-98ed1ee2-a793701c-60ae668685b5654062bd2f9d"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There also exists a Center for Innovation at Something fairly unique to the Air Force Academyis that all majors are exposed to industry through their capstone projects. At this location, Senior year cadets can receive sponsorship get the opportunity to work on real world projects with major companies to help solve their problems and funding issues. This allows students to perform see how private industry works and bring about innovative research projects over the summer. They can also utilize this resource ways to work on independent research project during the academic yearUS Air Force.</span></span> = REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS = <span id="docs-internal-guid-7c4cd00b-7fff-da75-82bd-91688b64a9f3"><divspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sole engagement in regards to local economic development efforts is the QUAD Partnership, which is sponsored by A4I. The goal of QUAD is the collaboration between the four local universities to improve the greater Colorado Springs area. This particular opportunity is only given to a few cadets annually, in which they are selected from a committee.<br/span></divspan> = RELATED LINKS = [[United States Air Force Academy Student Priorities|<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><divspan style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">United States Air Force Academy Student Priorities<br/span></divfont>]]
[[Trey_Arnold|<font color=UNIVERSITY"#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION=size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trey Arnold</span></font><br/>]]
[[Matt Koch|<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matt Koch</span></font>]]
[[Yann Wollman|<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yann Wollman</span></font>]]
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