== Overview ==
Our project pitchFall 2019: [httpsBridging Communication with Campus Leadership<br/>{{#Widget:Youtube|id=YpdOnDqMsWY}}<br//www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn6llD7W-9Q&feature=youtu.be Creating a Community-Based Capstone]>
Fall 2018: Spreading Innovation Across the Disciplines<br/>{{#Widget:Youtube|id=7w0NfnCIers}}<br/>
== Strategy #1: Increase Innovation and Entrepreneurship Across All Disciplines ==
=== Create a design and innovation workshop for professors and faculty from all departments to teach them how to bring innovation into their classes.<br/> ===
*<span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-de3f-214a-7c74-54449c749769"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Offer project ideas that blend professor's subjects and innovation</span></span>*<span><span style= "font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Offer Innovation and Entrepreneurship based courses in more departments</span><br/span> ===
== Strategy #1: Increase Innovation and Entrepreneurship Classes for Non-Engineering and Entrepreneurship Majors = Create an online innovation module that professors can give to their students that teaches them about innovation in regards to the class they are taking. ===
*<span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap">Add a Canvas module that address innovation and entrepreneurship related to their class</span>*<span style= "font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap">Include a design project where students can gain real world innovation practice<br/span> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align: center"></p>
=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-de3f-214a-7c74-54449c749769"><span style="font-sizeStrategy #2: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Offer more Increase Innovation and Entrepreneurship based courses</span>in Sustainability on Campus<br/span> ===
<span id="docs== Host a Make-internalA-guid-549bdd69-de3f-214a-7c74-54449c749769"><span styleThon around the Topic of Sustainability =="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Add Innovation and Entrepreneurship course to core curriculum</span></span>
<span id="docs*Host a Make-internal-guid-549bdd69-de3f-214a-7c74-54449c749769"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A-Thon on campus open to all students asking them to come up with an innovative solution to a sustainability issue*Before the event begins, have students learn about the design thinking process*Offer Innovation and Entrepreneurship based courses in more departments</span></span>a reward to incentivize students to participate, perhaps offer seed funding for winning idea
<span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-de3f-214a-7c74-54449c749769"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>= Integrate Design Thinking into Sustainability Courses ===
=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-de3f-214a-7c74-54449c749769"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Include Innovation and Entrepreneurship learning objectives *Offer a workshop to faculty about how they can integrate design thinking in existing regards to their sustainability courses</span></span> ===*Encourage staff members to incorporate a project or competition to solve a problem in their curriculum*Measure effectiveness of workshop by following up with faculty
<span style="font-size= Strategy #3: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Add learning units that address innovation and entrepreneurship</span>Repurposing a Space on Campus to Foster Innovation ==
<span style="font-size: 16px; white-= Building a space: pre-wrap;">- Gain skills through design projects</span>for cooperative innovation and new ideas. ==
=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-de3f-214a-7c74-54449c749769">*<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;medium">'''Students would have to complete an online training module to participate in the space. '''</span>*<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;medium">-Gain skills through design projects'''Space would have resources needed for innovation and entreprenurial ideas. '''</span>*</span> ===<p dir="ltr" style="linefont-heightsize:1medium">'''There would be a design team, made of students, to help create, brainstorm, and ideate innovative thoughts.38 margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;">'''</p>== Strategy #2: Introduce Start-Up Weekend or Workshop Activities on Camp<br/span> ==
=== Host an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week in Anderson Student Center for All Strategy #4: Creating a Canvas Page with all Resources Available to Students =on Campus. ==
*Host speakers sponsored by engineering groups such as ASME<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">By educating all freshman and inoming students about the resources they have to voice their opinions, get academic aid, IEEEcareer help, SWEand all other resources, etcwill make the campus a better place for all. </span></span>*Have activities outside <span style="font-size:larger">The page will be added to the Freshman Year Experience class, so all freshman and incoming students will learn about their resources the University of The View at a table such as squishy circuits or quick build activitiesSt. Thomas provides.</span>*Host a hackathon on South Campus for all <span style="font-size:larger">Instead of structural change, we are improving the current resources available by educating students.</span>
=== Host Strategy #5: Creating a Start Up Weekend Design Challenge =Value-based connection. ==
*Create <span style="font-size:larger">Platform dedicated to incoming Tommies or Tommies seeking a 72 hour design challenge for students linkedin-type experience, without the high stakes atmosphere linkedin users tend to participate in over the weekendperceive. </span>*Open the design challenge <span style="font-size:larger">The platform would promote social connectivity through values instead of interests. Something that other socials fail to do. </span>*<span style="font-size:larger">Unbundled LinkedIn and de-fragmented UST resource page. </span>*<span style="font-size:larger">Get students across all disciplines to form relationships with others they wouldn’t have before and which go beyond their time at UST. </span>
=== Offer Workshops throughout the Semester Related to Innovation and Entrepreneurship =Strategy #6: UST Pop-Ups ==
*Collaborate with an already existing workshop <span style="font-size:larger">“Pop Up” shops would appear on campus to incorporate innovation and entrepreneurshipengage students in a variety of ways. </span>*<span style="font-size:larger">Participating organizations would range from showcasing on-campus events (Fowler) to hosting local nonprofits. </span>*Host <span style="font-size:larger">Pop Ups would provide a two hour workshop during convo hour sponsored by an engineering club space to incubate student discussion and connection. </span>
== Strategy #3: Increase Department Interaction =Related Links =
*<span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-de42-be52-1ddb-5d3568d60ca1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Building a sense [[University of shared enterprise.</span></span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-de42-be52-1ddb-5d3568d60ca1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make teamwork a priority by making it part Saint Thomas|University of the performance management system.</span></span>*<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build a software that integrates benefits of BlueJeans, Mindly, OneDrive, and LinkedIn to help with:</span>**<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Building the perfect team with the qualified skills you need for a project (LinkedIn)</span>**<span style="font-size: 14.66670036315918px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quick and easy 2 way communication (BlueJeans)</span>**<span style="font-size: 14.66670036315918px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laying out Projects (Mindly)</span>**<span style="font-size: 14.66670036315918px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Storing and sharing project files (OneDrive)</span>Saint Thomas]]
== Strategy #4: Increase Real World Experiences for Students ==<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Companies with a relationship to St. '''University of Saint Thomas host events where students can come and visit their company, experiencing their work environment.</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students would be interested in this, as when companies come to visit during club meetings, there are huge turn outs</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It would be a no-pressure way to explore that environment, helping students with deciding which way they want to travel after they earn their degree</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This could be beneficial for companies, as the companies could scope out potential employees/interns, especially those that personally reach out to the company at the event.</span></span></li></ul></li><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mandatory class for semester long internship</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This would be a huge way to get experience in the workfield as a class through the university.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St. Thomas could make a deal with the company, like if their students get the opportunity to intern part-time for a semester, they don’t have to pay them.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The students will learn actual physical skills towards their major that is different than just visiting as a group or talking to a representative.</span></span></li></ul></li><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mandatory job shadowing for class with mandatory questions:</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students would have to fulfill this to earn their degree, and in doing so, they can experience different places, helping them get a better feel for what they want to do after college.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If interested in this person, employers have a direct way of talking to the student without having to go through an application process. It would be a nice way for seeking out interns.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-549bdd69-dd34-0856-46f3-4450b9e01771"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This would be more in depth way of learning about not only the company, but the job market, instead of just chatting with someone from the company for ten minutes.</span></span></li></ul></li></ul>Priorities'''
== Related Links ==Fall 2019 Leadership Circle:
Spring 2017 UIF[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:ErikAnderson Erik Anderson]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Annabelle_Hamilton Annabelle HamiltonAva_Carefoot Ava Carefoot]
Hannah Brodersen
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Murad_Abduselam Murad Abduselam]
[httpFall 2018 Leadership Circle://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Paige_Huschka Paige Huschka]
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