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'''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club</span></span>'''
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''The entrepreneurship and innovation club was started by a 2016 fellow in order to help foster change makers on campus. This club holds a series of workshops on varies topics. Every week they host a design thinking workshop, where students take a problem and create a solution that the club will eventually enact. There are also elevator pitch workshops where students learn from faculty in the area about different pitching techniques. The club also hosts different competitions that allow students to hone in on their skills that they have learned in the workshops.Overall this club really helps students gain valuable skills and allows them to interact with entrepreneurs in the community. ''</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</span></span>
''<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">One of the things great about the community of Louisville is the amount of interests by the community. The community has a strong fundamental backing in the arts and humanities. The community was built as an industrial town, but never really expanded in that field and has slowly built a great cultural in the arts and humanities. The community is slowly trying to expand their ideas into the sciences with maker spaces such as LVL 1, FirstBuild(1B), and eventually water step. The community great uses and to some extents abuses these avenues. Nevertheless, you would assume the University would help, but sadly this isn’t the case. The university doesn’t seem to focus too much on the community, which is a place where it would seem to be a natural connection. The events at the maker spaces are rarely attended by any students to any great extent.</span>''
'''<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Changes from 2016 - 2017</span>'''
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''<span style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); white-space: pre-wrap;">Throughout the UIF program we learned a lot about the process of applying innovation within organizations; And as we applied the fundamental principles that we learned in the sessions, we noticed consistent results from week to week. We applied these principles to not only expand our current E&I program, but also add additional resources for the university.</span>''</span></span><br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''<span id="docs-internal-guid-915aef1e-597b-d3cd-d2c4-2e20b381724c"><span style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>''</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''<span><span style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the key aspects of the program that really helped us brainstorm our ideas was the landscape canvas. The reason this is, is because it helped us break down our thoughts into categories and really think about each attribute of the programs. Using this helped us not only further develop the ideas but also approach them from a more ‘political’ perspective giving us a better understanding of the logistics to actually make something happen. This concept was best exemplified when we presented the canvas’ to our stakeholders. With the help of our stakeholders we were able to cut down our ideas down to the core and find what might be feasible for our projects. Not only that, we were able to add ideas that we might not of initially thought of to our projects, such as involving relevant RSOs and clubs to help further our initiatives. Bottom line, it was a great opportunity to get more eyes on the changes we are pushing to make at UofL.</span></span>''</span></span>
<br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">''<span id="docs-internal-guid-915aef1e-597b-d3cd-d2c4-2e20b381724c"><span style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because we were able to work hand in hand with the previous fellows, it wasn’t too hard to build off of the architecture they originally established. Since we began the program we have noticed significant growth in our existing E&I club as well as increased numbers of students enrolling in the entrepreneurship minor at UofL. With that being said, it gives us a sense of accomplishment being able to contribute to something bigger than us on campus. Regarding the new ideas we planned to initiate within the 2017 fellowship, we have taken promising steps to apply the new programs in the next academic semester which we have good faith will further the E&I presence on UofLs campus even more.</span></span>''</span></span>
[[University of Louisville Student Priorities|University of Louisville]]
University Innovation Fellows:
Spring 2016:
[[Onajia Stubblefield|Onajia Stubblefield]]
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[[Category:University_of_Louisville]]
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