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= Project Prezi Spring 2017 =

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<u><span style="font-size:large;">'''Overview:'''</span></u>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to increase student arareness, we plan on hosting an event called "Orientation to Innovation". During this event, students will be given the opportunity to explore the different innovation centers on campus, such as labs and makerspaces. This event would alow students to see the resources available to them. Hopefully, this will increase use of these resources on campus allowing students to think more creatively.</span>

<u>'''<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2: Create union between similar Entrepreneurship and Innovation groups.</span></span>'''</u>

<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We plan on starting a chapter of Phi Beta Lambda. This organization will hold a variey of business competitions for students in all pre-existing clubs. By doing this, unity among the groups will be achieved allowing for greater collaboration.</span></font>

<span style="font-size:large;"><u>'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3: Create more campus-wide events that can be accessible by students of any major.</span>'''</u></span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collab-a-Thon will be an event that requires students to form teams from different students in different disciplines and work together to build an idea. The teams will have a weekend to complete this idea and present their ideas to judges. This will require students to interact and meet others from all over campus. By fostering these interactions, ideas will be generated.</span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><u>'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4: Create engaging events and better opportunities to bring in more students.</span>'''</u></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-85c090bd-7ded-52e1-b721-7607c1d36397"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Currently, as previously stated, there is not a multi department class past your freshmen year. This really needs to be stopped and one of the easiest way to do this is to make it a part of the “flight-plan”, or list of courses you are required to take to graduate. A class focused on bringing people together, giving people a familiarity with engineering, business, and arts, and communication would be an invaluable class. The simple idea of the class would be to go to at least one of the three main makerspaces(First Build, Level1, and Water-step) for a startup weekend, hackathon, or a workshop based around an aspect of a department. The class would have a goal of being an optional class by Fall 2017.</span></span>