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= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =
Presently, Jewell students from physics and business are the most engaged in entrepreneurship. This is because of likely due to the focus on engineering content and entrepreneurial the structure of their courses. However, respectivelystudents in all majors often show their ability to innovate and design. One goal Jewell's student body constantly engages in extracurricular group activity and other projects outside of the 2015-16 Leadership Circle is class that are dedicated to engage interdisciplinary students and help market our existing resources finding innovative solutions to students across problems they find on campus. There are also several student organizations dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation, detailed below. Additionally, students leverage resources in the Kansas City entrepreneurial ecosystem, such as Lean Startup Machine workshops. There are also many makerspaces that encourage collaboration among students and students have many resources through on-campus faculty. Students also have the Adobe Suite at their disposal on specific computers in the Pryor Learning Commons. There is also along with a 3D printer, production studio, and audio recording studio. There is are a great amount of number resources that students could be using in their entrepreneurial endeavors. Jewell's faculty also does a tremendous job of kindling and promoting entrepreneurial spirit in their interaction with the student body.
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =
== Clubs and Organizations<br/> ==
The clubs and organizations that we have on campus are the TECH Club, E-Society, InScape Digital Magazine, the Jewellverse Student Advisory Board, and the Jewell Communication and Theatre Society. The TECH Club, also known as Teach Everyone Coding and Hardware, is a club that reaches out to campus to educate and create awareness of technology and coding. The E-Society is the Jewell Entrepreneur Society that does events throughout the year as well as creates an interest for entrepreneurship and innovation in the student body. Students a part of the Jewellverse Advisory Board are able to help influence tech and I E policy. The Jewell Communication and Theatre Society helps assist students with networking with professionals and teaches about the possible careers in this subject matter.
== Events<br/> ==
William Jewell College offers and an extensive list of events for students to go to which include an extensive lecture series, Big Omaha, Big Kansas City, the Kansas City Maker Faire, KC Tech Week, and One Million Cups. Organizations around campus also contribute to events that help inspire innovation and entrepreneurship such as visiting lecturere lecture series sponsored by the chemistry and biology departments, a professor sponsored weekly networking meeting called BizTime Coffee, Lean Startup Machine in Kansas City that is sponsored by the Business Department, and Think Big Pitch Camp that is also sponsored by the Business Department.
The fall 2014 UIF cohort started an annual event called #OnedayKC. Through partnerships with the University of Missouri -Kansas City, Think Big Partners, the Kaufmann Foundation, and other local businesses and organizations #OnedayKC became the collegiate entrepreneurial event of the year for the Kansas City area by bringing together students from multiple instituitions institutions for a day of innovation and entrepreneurship. The 2015 cohort is looking forward to did a great job of expanding and improving upon the already excellent model for this amazing event. Current and future cohorts aim to do the same. William Jewell College also puts on a Duke Colloquium Day every April for students to both showcase their unique project and get a look at what their peers have been working on. Classes are canceled for the day to show the students they have the colleges full backing and admiration for their work. In addition, alumni are invited as well as local professional leaders.
== Spaces<br/> ==
On Jewell’s campus , there are two shops in the Physics Department that are the machine shop and the electronics shop. These spaces, are however, are mostly used by students in the Physics Department. These shops require special training to use which makes them less accessible to the larger student body. A private shop is located about thirty-five minutes away called the Design Shop and it is available for student use. It is a business professor initiative at bringing design and creativity to campus and to the community.
== Opportunities<br/> ==
The Career Mentor program matches students from any discipline on campus to a professional mentor in the Kansas City area to do a job shadowing experience of 10 hours minimum. This program allows students to gain a better understanding of a career field and it connects professionals to the college through a professional relationship with a Jewell student.
The Journey Grant is a $2,000 minimum grant that allows Jewell students to study abroad, attend a conference, or to start a business with these funds, or anything to aid the experiential learning process. To use the Journey Grant, a student must apply for it to use during their Junior or Senior year. The school offers pre-planned trips that include learning about business on a ranch, learning about third world communities and economies in Honduras, the British Teacher Education Program, among others.
Students at William Jewell College have the opportunity to apply for funding for a start-up or business venture through the Kauffman Grant. The students can apply through the Director of Creativity and Innovation to have access to these funds that allow students to gain real world experiences with real money to start up.
William Jewell is rapidly growing its Creativity and Innovation program and other campus-wide efforts, to the degree that the word "entrepreneurship," "innovation," and "creativity" find themselves at the center of nearly every new project and initative. The University Innovation fellows welcome this environment, but currently find ourselves grounding campus projects and initiatives into doable, process based creativity. While we encourage "thinking big," we consider it equally important to consider the multi-stepped, process-based origin of true creative work. Projects that include faculty recognition, centralized data regarding campus activities, and better communications mechanisms for campus leaders all include big goals--yet we continue to seek first iterations of these projects to use as prototypes to better evaluate the underlying need of the initiatives at hand. From there, we intend to garner the immediate success of various initiatives into the energy and support needed to reach their fullest conceptions.
In line with this goal, Jewell has collected data from faculty and student interviews about innovation, entrepreneurship, and engagement over the last year, and this content area will eventually summarize those data along with that collected by the Leadership Circle. Some of the ways Jewell has utilized the collected data is the creation of the college's first ever engineering program, which it is in the midst of now. In the fall of 2016 William Jewell College will be welcoming welcomed its first ever class of civil engineers. The program will have has an environmental emphasis and focus on four technical areas: environmental, geotechnical, hydraulic and structural. The addition of this department will has certainly added and continues to add to the innovation and entrepreneruship on Jewell's campus.
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'''Current Fellows''' [[Jack Still|Jack Still]] [[Tavarus Pennington|Tavarus Pennington]] [[Julia Almeida|Julia Almeida]] [http://universityinnovation.org/Sofia%20Arthurs-Schoppe Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe] '''Graduate Fellows''' [[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]] [[Meg Anderson|Meg Anderson]] [[Conner Foote|Conner Foote]] [[William Hyde|William Hyde]] [[Jesse Lundervold|Jesse Lundervold]] [[Dalton Nelson|Dalton Nelson]] [[Erika storvick|Erika Storvick]] [[Denver Strong|Denver Strong]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Dice Jacob Dice] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sam_Fulte Sam Fulte] 2018-2019 Leadership Cycle: [[Jack Still|Jack Still]] , [[Tavarus Pennington|Tavarus Pennington]] , [[Julia Almeida|Julia Almeida]] . 2017-2018 Leadership Circle: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sam_Fulte Sam Fulte], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Dice Jacob Dice] 2016-2017 Leadership Circle: [[Meg Anderson|Meg Anderson]], [[Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe|Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe]], [http://universityinnovation.org/Conner%20Foote Conner Foote], [[William Hyde|William Hyde]], [[Jesse Lundervold|Jesse Lundervold]], [[Dalton Nelson|Dalton Nelson]], [[Erika storvick|Erika Storvick]], [[Denver Strong|Denver Strong]] 2015-2016 Leadership Circle: [[Bradley Dice|Bradley Dice]], [[Trevor Nicks|Trevor Nicks]], [[Ben Shinogle|Ben Shinogle]], [[Alex Holden|Alex Holden]], [[Macy Tush|Macy Tush]], [[Gretchen Mayes|Gretchen Mayes]]
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