= <span style="font2021-size:x-large;"><span id2022 Student Priorities="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color'''Priority 1: rgbPromoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship (0, 0, 02021-2022); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span> ='''
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Santa Clara University’s campus can be observed in physical spaces and amongst the community.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0The Innovation Zone, 0previously named the Maker Lab, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-is a space: pre-wrap;">Santa Clara University has a huge amount of resources for all students who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, however, not many students are enrolled in these programs. There seems to be a rather large disconnect between the students collaborate and the programs. This is not for create projects with a lack variety of tryingmachinery and tools. Many organizations try very hard to organize to studentsSecondly, but there are not very good channels for connecting the Senior Design Program instituted in the School of Engineering encourages students to innovate and produce cutting-edge projects using their knowledge accumulated in their desired programundergraduate careers. SureAdditionally, the Bronco Accelerator is another strong example of the University supplying entrepreneurs with funds, there are bulletin boards all around campusresources, and emails that go out, but most students ignore both of these methods. There needs connections to be a better way see their ideas come to reach a larger amount of studentslife. </span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size'''Priority 2: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgbEncouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship (0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre2021-wrap;">There is also the problem of divisions. Each school under the Santa Clara University umbrella (Arts and Science, Engineering, and Business2022) seems to have a disconnect. They all seem to work with in their own school and not promote innovation by working together. Bringing all these schools together would surely promote a greater pool of ideas and innovations. </span></span>'''
= <span style="font-size:x-largeAs Santa Clara University is based in the heart of Silicon Valley, there is a thread of innovation that can be consistently seen through many of the different professors’ teachings on campus. From including group projects that encourage students to innovate within their major to including group discussions connecting topics to current events, SCU Professors tend to encourage students to innovate within the classroom. Outside the classroom, many professors are either directors or fellows of their own labs such as the Maker Lab, EPIC Lab, COVE, Frugal Innovation Hub, the Imaginarium and so on. Faculty encourage students to find solutions to real world problems by using the skills that they learned in the classroom;">STRATEGY #1: REINVENTING RESOURCE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS</span> =this builds an innovative atmosphere and urges students to think about the impact of their knowledge and skills. Furthermore, The Ciocca Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has a Faculty Advisory Board that provides faculty with a way to guarantee that students are receiving the best resources and guidance from the Ciocca Center so that they are able to learn and craft the best innovative experiences around campus.
== <span style="font-size'''Priority 3:large;"><span id="docsFacilitating University-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3Industry Collaboration (2021-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 02022); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #1: Camino Utilization</span></span></span> =='''
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Santa Clara, as shown through our Landscape Canvas, has many resources - from classes to clubs, from speaker events to workshops - but these are far underutilized due to University facilitates a system number of communication pathways and pipelines that is both difficult for facilitate collaboration with industry. The Bioinnovation and Design Lab at SCU currently hosts two projects with the administration to maintain Amronyx Corporation and doesn't fully reach out G-Tech Medical Silicon Valley that are open to the students of each collegeinterested in learning how to apply knowledge learned in academia research to market with industry partners, as it relates to addressing challenges in healthcare. In the school Leavey School of EngineeringBusiness and Ciocca Center for Entrepreneurship, there is a weekly email sent out that is hand-crafted every Sunday night that lists out most of the events that will be happening that week. Club meetingsBronco Venture Accelerator, Maker Lab events, workshopsSCU Venture Capital Association, and many others SCU Finance Club offers corporate-backed internships to students who are listed off interested in this emailapplying analytical skills to real- but world market data and advising services for start-ups in Silicon Valley. Lastly, the eyes College of manyArts and Sciences (Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, it comes across as almost "spammy". Most notably, not all engineers are interested in all disciplines Department of Engineering) and Leavey School of engineeringBusiness frequently invite industry-veterans for lecture series and speaker events, so they need where opportunities to sort through dozens of items in order participate or apply for internships local to find one they might be interested inSilicon Valley are discussed and presented. Along those same lines, the Business Santa Clara University and its academic department often invite alumni with industry experience and Arts/Sciences schools appear insights to lack anything close campus to this, discuss prospects and reflections to current students have to be completely on top of the hundreds of emails they receive each week just to see what they’re actually interested in.</span></span>==2018-2019 Student Priorities==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea594710735f658-ec187fff-88e3baeb-205fec69-1cfb80e7531b5f278f242a32"><span style="font-size: 1411.6667px5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By utilizing Camino, a resource that every student on campus already accesses on a nearPriority 1: Encouraging Innovative Cross-daily basis, we could potentially completely rework how our school’s resources deal with communications. Through Camino, club leaders, event organizers, and school administrators could communicate resources directly to interested students by publishing announcements about events when they are announced, directly messaging students to work out questions or RSVPs, and automatically add the event dates, times, and details to the students’ Google calendars. Students would sign up for which “groups” they would be interested in, whether they be Entrepreneurship, Art, Career Preparation, whatever it might be, and only receive notifications for those interests. It would be much more streamlined and direct than our current means of communication, and also helps grey out Collaboration Among the boundaries between schools.Schools at SCU</span></span>
= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea594710735f658-ec187fff-88e3baeb-205fec69-1cfb80e7531b5f278f242a32"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: REINVENTING CLASSES</span>Most essential to the success of real-life projects and teams is collaboration. At Santa Clara University, however, the individual schools are often siloed, lacking cross-collaborative activities and courses that would enrich the students’ experiences even further. Courses within the Engineering school are excellent for technical training, and Business school courses prepare their students for much of the business scenarios they may encounter, but at the core of entrepreneurship is a combination of technical advancements and business acumen that can only be achieved with collaboration. We intend to implement a hands-on, project-based course that will bring engineering and business students together in a collaborative environment. Students will learn crucial technical and business topics, and how their intersection can push innovation to the next level. Teams will be made up of students in various majors who can act as both leaders and learners, ultimately contributing to a product that will move through a version of the entire entrepreneurial process. Based on student interests and market research, this course will be developed (by our team and faculty champion) to meet the demands of the students and their future careers as collaborative contributors to innovative success.</span></span> =
== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea594716d577956-ec187fff-88e35553-205fa1c1-1cfb80e7531bd625ad2e440c"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TacticPriority 2: Combining Pop-Up Classes</span>Promoting Awareness of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Resources</span></span> ==
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">While many I&E opportunities exist at SCU, there is currently a problem in boosting student awareness of them. The Engineering School has sent out emails, created an online calendar, and even put up physical fliers advertising events that students can get involved in, but an overload of information has led to most engineering students neglecting these efforts. Typically, the same group of students is attending each event, so the challenge resides in expanding the group of attendees to a wider range of engineers. Our team intends to have a large, quarterly event where organizers and professors can pitch their events to students, which would restrict advertising to a few hours as opposed to lengthy, weekly emails. Additionally, our team members will act as liasons between the administration/event organizers and the students by raising awareness through fliers, social media advertising, and outreach to clubs.</span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priority 3: Identifying and Accommodating Students’ Entrepreneurial Ambitions</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea594716d577956-ec187fff-88e35553-205fa1c1-1cfb80e7531bd625ad2e440c"><span style="font-size: 1411.6667px5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to give create demand for the school an experience of innovation abundant I&E resources on campus, we must first understand students' expectations and ambitions for their college careers. If they expect a large emphasis on entrepreneurship in a classroom setting, we can meet them there with new courses and revamped lab guidelines. If we find students want more freedom and are interested in entrepreneurshipoutside of the classroom, Santa Clara offers various onewe will provide access to community-unit pop up classes on relevant topicssourced projects and resources. We would like to find out where these expectations and desires lie through extensive market research. A problem with We hope to properly gain the perspective of students and professors by explicitly speaking to these classes is that they don’t satisfy any requirementindividuals, as well as implicitly analyzing which resources, are offered at odd timesapproaches, and they courses are only worth one unitpopular and why others need work. This makes it so students can't or don’t want to take them</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-6d577956-7fff-5553-a1c1-d625ad2e440c"><span style="font-size: 11. Therefore by combining them all into a 5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priority 4: Bridging the Gap Between Classroom Curriculum and Applied Innovation</span></span> <span id="docs-unit class would solve this probleminternal-guid-6d577956-7fff-5553-a1c1-d625ad2e440c"><span style="font-size: 11. A problem that hasn’t been resolved yet 5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Problem solving in the workplace is much different than the fact that these classes guided labs many students are traditionally used to doing at odd times university. Due to this fact, when students find themselves in internships and full-time jobs, they are hard to fit ill prepared for the more open-ended problem solving that exists in the scheduleworkplace. If In order to better prepare students for the classes were all a part of the same class it wouldn’t have future, we hope to rework labs to be squeezed allow for more freedom in eliminating studentss solutions and creative problem solving. Additionally, by better promoting more projects on campus, students will get the potential opportunity to take collaborate with other classesengineers, which is a key component of real-world projects. The largest benefit combination of these classes being two initiatives will ideally instill confidence in line so students when they can build off each otherare asked to work on collaborative, open-ended projects during their internships and come together full-time jobs, which will lead to even more opportunities for the students in a big final the future. As such, we intend to work with faculty to create innovative lab guidelines and objectives, as well as provide more opportunities for team and project that has a real world componentcreation.</span></span> ==<span style="font-size:x-large;">'''<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Related Links</span></font>'''</span>== [[Santa Clara University|Santa Clara University]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMqDIb4s9HM&feature=youtu.be Our Story] ===Spring 2019=== [[Payton Bradsky|Payton Bradsky]] [[Anthony_Fenzl|Anthony Fenzl]] [http://universityinnovation.org/Ruby%20Karimjee Ruby Karimjee] [http://universityinnovation.org/Ryan%20Lund Ryan Lund] ===Spring 2018=== [http://universityinnovation.org/Taylor%20Mau Taylor Mau] [http://universityinnovation.org/Mariah%20Manzano Mariah Manzano] [http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Mehta Michael Mehta] [http://universityinnovation.org/Connor%20Tisch Connor Tisch] ===Spring 2017=== [http://universityinnovation.org/Matthew%20Belford Matthew Belford] [http://universityinnovation.org/Will%20McMullen Will McMullen] [http://universityinnovation.org/Rory%20Pannkuk Rory Pannkuk] [http://universityinnovation.org/Andrew%20Torrance Andrew Torrance] __NOTOC__ [[Category:Student Priorities|Universities]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Santa_Clara_University]][[Category:Student_Priorities]]{{CatTree|Santa_Clara_University}}