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= Strategic Priority #1:Pop-up Workshop =

= '''Team Member: Jessica Flynn ='''

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Youngstown State University isn’t yet known for being an innovative school, but we are working hard at getting our name known. One way we can bring Innovation and Entrepreneurship to our campus would be creating pop-up workshops dedicated to design thinking process. At first, we want to make a 90 minute workshop held in a student organization. We will introduce a warm-up to start off our time together. This warm-up should bring the people in each group together to bond and to get into the team working mode. This would take about 10 minutes to complete. Then we would move to the brainstorm stage. This stage should be free for each teammate to generate a lot of ideas. This stage would take about 15 minutes. Once we get halfway through the brainstorming stage, then we will add constraints to the stage to make the groups create even more ideas about the objective. Next, the groups would move into working on their prototype. During the first half of the 25 minutes, each team will work on taking their best idea and mapping it out. During the second half, each team would begin to build their prototype to soon be able to test. This brings us to the testing stage. This part would take about 25 minutes to complete. This stage is where one group will pitch their idea to other another group and gain feedback. The very last stage is to debrief. This is where we will have each teammate reflect on their experience and take in everything they just learned.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Team Member: Chris Eichler

'''<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accelerated Design Think''' <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many universities around the world have a multitude of classes that have a major focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. With that being said, Youngstown State University is taking necessary steps to increase these programs to expose students to different ways of thinking. Last year, YSU added a Design Think class as part of the Williamson College of Business. The class has two major focal points, Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) and Design Thinking (d thinking).Being a fairly new program, changes and updates to the class are necessary in order for the class and thinking mind-set to evolve at YSU. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Design Think class is currently offered once a week for 50 minutes. By designing a new time schedule for the class, we believe that we can enhance the learning opportunities by increasing the amount of time teams can critically think together during the class. The class could be changed from one semester hour to three hours and be offered over one to two weekends during the semester. The restructured class has potential to expose students to performing concepts learned in the class to local businesses through our Small Business Development Center located in the Williamson College of Business Administration. <br/span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This class can also help students pursue more opportunities in the innovation and entrepreneurship field by offering it as part of the curriculum in receiving a Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) certificate offered through the business school at YSU. This could help aid prospective students in preparing them to think outside the box.

= <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority # 3:Remodeling the Launch Lab/ Innovation Center =

= <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority # 4:Design Thinking Classroom/Lab =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Team Member: Andrew Klapac <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of our biggest and hardest to achieve goals is to create a design thinking room/space on campus. This room would go in the Williamson College of Business Administration on the second floor where a quiet lab is now. I picked that room to be the new design thinking classroom for many reasons. First off, no one really ever uses the quiet lounge room. Students typically go in there as a last option when they can’t find anywhere else to go. Secondly, that room is the perfect size to be a design thinking classroom. The third reason is because the whole wall of that class that separates the class from the outside hallway are glass windows. Having glass windows will allow students who pass by the room to see in at all of the cool design thinking tools. They will be able to see all of the whiteboards. They will be able to see all of the prototyping materials, They will be able to see all of the cool technology and how mobile everything is in the room. Having students be able to see in will be a simple form of advertising to spark the interest in the mind of students about the opportunities that lie with design thinking.~~ ~~ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our ultimate goal is create a culture on campus that promotes design thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurship more than we do right now. Creating this design thinking room will really help prove to students at my school that the movement we are trying to facilitate is a big deal, which will cause them to want to join the movement. In order to get the chain of command at our school to approve of this idea, we will have to prove to them the need that exists for design thinking, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship.~~ ~~ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This design thinking room that we want to create will be the perfect area for students to think creatively, which is extremely important in the design thinking course. We will have two whole walls of whiteboards as well as two rolling whiteboards in that room. A roll around cart with all of the prototyping materials, tons of post it notes, and a lot of sharpies. In addition to this, we think it would be beneficial to have a smartboard and projector to be able to do some design thinking activities as well.

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