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= Project Pitch Video = [https://youtu.be/Si58ZDWdniU Informing James Madison University About Areas of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Across Campus]

= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #1</span>= Create two new majors for the University: Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==Tactic #1: Grant Writing, Start-Up, Interdisciplinary Classes== *Description:&nbsp;Create academic opportunities for students to learn skills related to innovation and entrepreneurship that could then develop into a more formal program.&nbsp; ==Tactic #2: Establish contacts and a Network of interested parties within and outside of JMU== *Description:&nbsp;We would need faculty and professors to facilitate classes, and reaching out to interested professors and faculty at JMU and in the surrounding Harrisonburg Community is a good way to create those connections.&nbsp; ==Tactic #3: Create an Interdisciplinary Group of Professors to Create a Rich Learning Environment== *Description:&nbsp;Innovation and Entrepreneurship are interdisciplinary subjects, and therefore require knowledge from all departments on campus.&nbsp; =<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #2</span>= The X-Labs Files ==Tactic #1: Maintain a Social and Engaging Learning Environment Despite Virtual Classes== *Description:&nbsp;Support students and faculty during this extremely stressful time, and make the most of the opportunities and challenges presented by online learning.&nbsp; ==Tactic #2: Create Resources for Faculty to make their Teaching more Innovative== *Description:&nbsp;We will create a compilation of resources and tutorials for these existing resources for professors to utilize in their classes to make them more effective and conducive to learning.&nbsp; ==Tactic #3: Give Faculty the Confidence to be Innovative== *Description:&nbsp;By providing tutorials and easy-to-access resources for faculty, we will encourage faculty to be innovative in their teaching style for virtual learning, and when classes return to normal.&nbsp; =<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #3</span>= A program that partners students and external non-university associated businesses for experience with start ups, employment, and entrepreneurial resources. ==Tactic #1: Establish Connections within the Community and Beyond Harrisonburg== *Description:&nbsp;We will reach out to local businesses, corporations, as well as national and international businesses to partner with the university and university students.&nbsp; ==Tactic #2: Maintain and Grow Relationships with the Harrisonburg Community== *Description:&nbsp;Partnerships between the university and local community will strengthen those relationship and encourage future collaboration.&nbsp; =<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #4</span>= Create an Entrepreneurship Department ==Tactic #1: Centralize and Emphasize the Importance and Possibility of Entrepreneurship== *Description:&nbsp;The creation of an Entrepreneurship Department will emphasize the significance of entrepreneurship as well as create a centralized locality for resources related to entrepreneurship. This will allow students to have greater access to funds and opportunities as well.&nbsp; ==Tactic #2: Give the Current Entrepreneurship Minor and potential Entrepreneurship and Innovation Majors a Basis== *Description:&nbsp;Creating an Entrepreneurship Department will open the door to more resources for the Entrepreneurship Minor.&nbsp; =<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #5</span>= We recognize that the institutions and resources for innovation and entrepreneurship already exist at James Madison University and that we must strive to increase the utilization of these facilities. In addition, we will work to improve and update areas of the university that may not receive as much attention as some.  ==Tactic #1: Marketing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Survey Method== *Description:&nbsp;Incentivize students to participate in a survey to learn more about Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs available on campus with free food.&nbsp;**D-Hall Commons gets a lot of foot traffic every day making it an easy location to consider when implementing this survey. This is also a place that many organizations already utilize for similar ways of capturing students’ attention.**Festival Conference Center is the equivalent of commons, but on East Campus, allowing students who are not on the main campus to access the same information we are providing.**Showker Hall is where most of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs are since it is the business school, but since there is construction currently in that area, it could get a little hectic trying to find these I&E resources. Setting up a survey station there would also be beneficial in that aspect.&nbsp; ==Tactic #2: Funding for Programs All Over Campus That Have Innovators== *Description: A new, interdisciplinary, course hosted by XLabs that focuses on teaching students successful business practices, agile team management, human-centered design, and much more. The class would ask for students to form into teams and progress through the design of a project by hitting bi-weekly deadlines and then giving a final pitch to a panel of judges that would then decide on whether or not they want to financially support the teams’ project/business. ==Tactic #3: Updating and Innovating on Liberal Arts Curriculums== *Description: Liberal arts majors, like history, writing, english, etc. have been largely left behind by the advances in higher education.&nbsp;**Brainstorm possibilities: it is easy to dismiss the need to improve these courses because they have been taught the same way for so long. It might even be hard to imagine, for example, learning history by any other means than reading and lecturing. A wide, creative swath of ideas should be proposed to revamp these curriculums.**Demonstrate ideas: design a single lesson or a fraction of a class to show proof of concept. Test this plan on an objective, unbiased selection of students to determine its effectiveness.**Propose solutions: with these insights and data in mind, create a concise and clear plan and propose to one of the academic deans or a similarly influential figure in one of the liberal arts departments.&nbsp; ==Tactic #4: Centralization of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs around Campus== *Description:&nbsp;An organization and summit dedicated to creating connections between various organizations on campus with interests in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.&nbsp;**This organization would be a board with liaisons from various clubs on campus that would serve as connections, and representatives, for each of these I&E organizations.**Additionally, an annual Innovation Summit would be held for faculty and students to discuss how to implement I&E in higher education as well as the opportunities present on campus. Events could include presentations, landscape canvases, inter-group projects, and more. ==Tactic #5: Funding the Patenting Process for Students.== *Description:&nbsp;An organization dedicated to assisting students with unique, innovative ideas in the process of getting their creations patented, trademarked, or etc., as well as providing funding for this costly, time-consuming process.**This program would be open to any student with a passion for creating but would work closely with STEM majors who sometimes require specialized creations to be made for their Jr/Sr Capstone project.<div><br /></div>=<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #6</span>= <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Provide students with more innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities by exposing them to the Landscape Canvas & Wiki Pages. This would be executed by making information easily accessible and intuitive for students campus-wide.</span></span></span> ==Tactic #1: Interactive Panels and Tablets Across Campus== *Description: Install fun to use tablets in areas on campus where foot traffic is heavy.**Dining Locations**Residence Halls**Libraries**Maker Spaces ==Tactic #2: Information Posted on Student Websites== *Description: Make information more available on student websites in a more accessible fashion.**MyMadison**JMU.org**Canvas ==Tactic #3: Print Out Versions of Information== *Description: Provide an easy to read flowchart of innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities on print outs to distribute to students.**House in Libraries**Have University Innovation Fellows and or University Faculty distribute print outs to interested students.<div>==Tactic #4: Hold Seminar Targeted at Underclassmen== *Description: Hold seminars open to all students walking through the different opportunities found in the Landscape Canvas.**Have representatives from courses, programs, and organizations speak about how they inspire innovation and entrepreneurship type thinking.**Give out small brochures describing the information on the landscape canvas.   '''<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a728b4-7fff-9eee-de7c-0ebfe62e77fe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #5: Mock Case Study</span></span>''' *<span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connect case study to the local community surrounding James Madison University</span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a728b4-7fff-9eee-de7c-0ebfe62e77fe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make it a competition where individuals compete against each other on teams</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"></ul> &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; *<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a728b4-7fff-9eee-de7c-0ebfe62e77fe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recognition of students through rewards, prizes, or opportunity to implement a project</span></span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a728b4-7fff-9eee-de7c-0ebfe62e77fe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can lead to real projects and solutions that aren’t apart of the engineering curriculum</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"></ul> &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; *<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a728b4-7fff-9eee-de7c-0ebfe62e77fe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ability for students to gain experience that allows them to distinguishes themselves and gain valuable skills</span></span> &lt;/ul&gt; *<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a728b4-7fff-9eee-de7c-0ebfe62e77fe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make it open for all years (Freshman - Senior)</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"></ul> &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; *<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a728b4-7fff-9eee-de7c-0ebfe62e77fe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teams intermingled with students from all different years so knowledge and wisdom can be exchanged</span></span> *<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7a728b4-7fff-9eee-de7c-0ebfe62e77fe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunity for students to showcase their problem-solving abilities</span></span> &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</div>=<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #7</span>= Bring international students to James Madison University for a 2-week summer program focused heavily on innovation and entrepreneurship. ==Tactic #1: Course Variety== *Description: Provide courses in various fields of study to encourage a wider audience of students.**Examples:***Engineering***Business Start-Up***Rapid Prototyping ==Tactic #2: University Exposure== *Description: Introduce students to campus and University life in the United States.**JMU Dining**Student Organizations**Residential Life**University Recreation**Speaking with Professors ==Tactic #3: Hackathon Connections== *Description: Provide students with the opportunity to make connections through a hackathon that would take place during the summer school program.**Sponsors could incorporate prizes.**Company employees and James Madison faculty would serve as mentors during the innovative process.**Students can search for potential jobs or internship opportunities.**Participants are given the opportunity to engage in design thinking.   '''<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 4: Programming Competition/Workshop</span></span>''' *<span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Description: 24-hour programming competition. Every level of programming experience you have, you are welcome to attend this competition. There will be various programming workshops taught during the competition to sharpen your skills. Companies will sponsor the event for prize money and recruiting opportunities. Judges will consist of CS, CIS, Engineering or any related discipline professors.</span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Takeaways:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"></ul> &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; *<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Get students more interested in programming at a low stakes level.</span></span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Give students the opportunity to talk with recruiters to get an idea of what careers involve programming.</span></span> *<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open for all years (Freshman - Seniors) and for all majors</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"></ul> &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; *<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Programming is starting to become a valuable skill in many different professions, not limited to Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, etc.</span></span> &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; =<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #8</span>= Expand X-Labs space within Lakeview Hall and throughout campus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. ==Tactic #1:Convert Office Spaces== *Description: Transforming the current offices in Lakeview Hall into an expanded collaborative work and maker space.**Remove non-innovative spaces in Lakeview Hall to provide more room for innovation and space for more technologies. ==Tactic #2: Implement Into JMU General Education Curriculum== Create a new cluster of required classes for JMU students that will enhance the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus. *Description: The entrepreneurial mindset is an important tool for all incoming and existing students as a form of engaged learning. ==Tactic #3: Satellite Maker Spaces== *Description: Convert or improve current lab spaces around campus into X-Labs affiliated maker spaces.**Help to promote X-Labs names and encourage participation in innovative opportunities.**Further, establish X-Labs as an asset to the JMU ecosystem. =<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #9</span> =

== Tactic #1: Theme Based Think-A-Thons ==

*Description:&nbsp;Cultivate talent in theme -based hack-a-thon style events that correlate to the various colleges of academics, but appeal to the general population. We would want to create a brand that does not alienate or intimidate students that don’t necessarily think of this as “their” thing.

****Create low-cost products that meet the basic needs of the world's poorest people

**The theme of these thinker-mixers/hack-a-thons would vary each time and would touch on topics that are up-to-date with current events to help attract students from all colleges within JMU. This , in turn, would help continuity of participation and the dismantlement of silos.

**Approaching these events with hopes of there being multi-disciplinary teams does not expedite the view that these are hack-a-thons or "techie" events. &nbsp;This merely generates exploratory and problem-solving experiences to for any given area of study.**Agenda for planning:***February 2015 - Planning/ Scheduling/ Marketing***March 2015 - First Event***April 2015 - Second Event***May 2015 - Third Event

== Tactic #2: Make the I&E Network Accessible to Students ==

*Replicate a Landspace Canvas for I&E or create a landscape map to guide students through the process of finding relevent relevant resources on campus for their prospective entrepreneurs.&nbsp;

== Tactic #3: 200 100 Level Collaborative Course&nbsp; ==

*'''Course Description''': A 200 100 level course that will bring sophomores freshmen across a variety of majors together to help with the transition from the College of: Business, Engineering & ISAT, and Visual Arts & Designhigh school to college. With each of these programs having some sort of capstone or long time frame projects this 200 level This course will utilize group discussions and short-term projects with teams made of diverse disciplines to foster collaborative and teamworking skills growth.&nbsp;*Emphases on leadership, creativity, and design thinking through 3 week -long projects.**<u>Leadership</u>: Through the use of the JMU Dux Center students will benchmark their leadership/teamworking skills style at the beginning of the course. Through out Throughout the course , as they finish a 3 -week project cycle, the group leader will receive 4-5 leadership reviews from their team members and each team member will receive reviews from their team members. At the end of the course , a student will have participated in 4 groups, lead one, received feed back feedback and completed the leadership challenge workbook.

**<u>Public Presentations</u>: At the end of a 3-week cycle each team will present their process, idea , and prototype in a public space such as TDU. Each student will be required to bring at least 2 guests (no repeats) to this public event.&nbsp;*Project Lead's 2015 Agenda-Nahom FissahaCourse Plan**Find the best way to register the course on MyMadison by Oct. 23, 2018&nbsp;**Continue interviewing professors who show interest in coleading co-leading the course till until Nov. 6, 2018**Meeting with all stakeholders and potential course coleaders leaders to create a plan of action-Nov.9-13, 2018

'''<span id== "docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: large11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #14: Internship Workshop</span></span>'''<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Description: Address pain points with internships and gauge interest for future workshops from first and second-year students.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: MadX Labsnormal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This workshop’s purpose is to be an introduction to summer internships available for engineering students. Through this workshop participants will learn about what types of internships their peers have attended previously, the different types of internships available per discipline of engineering, and will participate in a discussion to gauge what content future workshops will cover.</span></span></li></ul></li><li><spanid="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have an open discussion with students about what it is like to be an intern and some advice for applying/ interviewing</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Topics to talk about with students:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tailoring your classes/ electives to score your target internship</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to make your interview stand out</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask students if they would be interested to have a career advisor come in from CAP services to teach them how to make resumes and cover letters</span></span></li></ul></li></ul>

*Description: Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed stage startup accelerator. &nbsp;&nbsp;**MadX Labs aims to serve JMU’s most talented student founders, giving them the best of both worlds by leveraging the resources of an entire University and its network. We give young entrepreneurs at JMU the opportunity to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, training, office space, and funding they need in order to test, launch, and grow their business – while maintaining a status as a student.**University-wide, students are encourage to apply to MadX Labs startup accelerator two times a year in the beginning of each semester during “The Madison Challenge”, and if selected as winners they enter into the 12=<span style="font-week program and receive the mentorship, office space, and funding. After the 12 weeks, the program culminates in a Demo Day, where they will have the opportunity to pitch an invite only audience of JMU investors**Agenda for planningsize:***January 2015 xx- Launch of Beta(Completed)***April 2015 - Close of Program - Demo Day***September 2015 - University Wide Launch***December 2015 - Close of First Official Programlarge;">Strategy #10</span>=

== Tactic #1: Test Courses == *Description:Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed-stage startup accelerator. &nbsp;Establish several “test courses” that can provide administration with an example &nbsp;**MadX Labs will serve JMU’s most talented student founders, giving them the opportunity by leveraging the resources of how a pattern of entrepreneurial University and innovative courses in its potential contacts. We will give young entrepreneurs at JMU the General Education Program can lead opportunity to escalating forms of venture creation.**February 2015***Initial interviews experience a traditional accelerator program; with students regarding the mentorship, training, space, and funding they need in order to test, launch, and grow their thoughts on I&E at JMUbusiness.***Identify faculty members interested Students are encouraged to apply to MadX Labs accelerator two times a year in participating the beginning of each semester during "The Entrepreneurment Procurement". After 12 weeks, the program culminates in a course like thisDemo Day, where they will have the opportunity to pitch an invite an only audience of JMU investor**April 2015Agenda for planning:***Discovery and ideation; explore what other schools are doing to introduce I&E earlier in their curriculum. &nbsp;Develop a series of courses in several clusters that could be implementedBegin idea generation for funding - January 2018***Have courses officially created as "test courses" available for enrollment next semesterFinalized Idea - February 20th, 2018***Have courses registered across several disciplines, as to attract a variety Generation of students**interest/Advertisement - May 20152018/August 2018***Begin designing actual ideas for course lessons, assuming students sign up for coursesPlanned Event Time - September 10-14

=<span style= Tactic "font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #2: Summer Program =11</span>=

*Description: Start a four Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to five week ideation innovation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomoresas well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers. This applystrategy will revolve around creating and marketing well-for known opportunities and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset physical spaces for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majorsexpress their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration.*Timeline: TBD&nbsp;

== Tactic #31: Spread the Word Pop-Up Courses==

*Description: Create pamphlets &nbsp;Continue the spread of several “test courses” that can provide the administration with an example of how a pattern of entrepreneurial and innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to escalating forms of venture creation.**February 2018***Continue to host the "Pop-Up" classes in the JMU X-Labs maker space.***Work on gaining feedback through response forms and questionnaires.&nbsp;**April 2018***Expand Pop-Up courses to a brief informational speech about I&E opportunities/resources at freshmen year orientationlarge capacity for more involvement.***Increase the range of topics in the Pop-Up classes outside of typical STEM classes.**May 2018***Work on continuing Pop-Up classes outreach and schedule more Pop-Up classes for the Fall semester.

== Tactic #43: Residential Learning Community Spread the Word==

*Description:&nbsp;Establish Create a Residential Learning Community medium-scale marketing campaign for Entrepreneurshipthe JMU X-Labs.&nbsp; Students who participate in a Residential Learning Community get the unique opportunity to live and take classes with a small group of students who share similar interests. This helps students *Tools: The following tools will be used to be fully immersed in help spread the topic word of the RLCLabs.**Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.&nbsp; 9 of these already exist on campus**On-Campus Resources such as flyers, banners, and the Entrepreneurship RLC is already in the works through some members of Society of Entrepreneurspost-cards.*Timeline: TBDIt can start immediately in February 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.

= Strategy #4:<br/> 12=

Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attracts attract the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.<br/>&nbsp;

== Tactic #1: Develop a Hub ==

'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #2: Corporate OutreachMentorship Program</Integration Efforts span></span>'''<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Problem: There is a clear gap between underclassmen and upperclassmen engineers. It is very clear that after engineering 101, first-year students are not connected with upperclassmen ab VB resources on campus to help guide them and find their passions.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proposal: I think we can help bridge this gap by implementing an engineering mentorship program. This would be conducted by pairing first-year students with third-year students and second-year students with fourth-year students based on their specific interests. This would help to bridge a gap within our interdisciplinary engineering bbbprogram but B.B. b. &nbsp;B. B. Ben and bbbb and allow students to create relationships with older students, have guidance from someone who has been in their place, and to help them network!</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prototyping:</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feedback</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I told Dr. Callie Miller about this idea and she completely agreed that there is a gap here between underclassmen and upperclassmen. She told me that I would have to speak with Dr. Paterson, the department head, and Dr. Gipson who is in charge of a lot of the first-year students to get some feedback.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This idea started when I was a TA for a first-year class, ENGR 112, and many students approached me for advice and help with their first-year concerns and classes. They expressed gratitude for my help and said that it was nice to have someone older than them that has been through these struggles/classes and can give them some insight and advice. THIS WAS MY PROTOTYPING PHASE. I realized that after Engineering 101 these kids are on their own. If every student had an older mentor, they would feel more a part of a community and more likely to get involved on campus!</span></span></li></ul></li></ul>

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= <span style="font*Description: The regional meet-size:xup will bring UIF students from campuses within a 5-largehour driving distance to James Madison University campus. Through various workshops, students will understand JMU’s campus and share their own experiences from their respective campuses. Current James Madison University UIF members will create a collaborative environment for students to share ideas with each other.&nbsp;">Related Links</span> =

== <u>Current Fellows<Tactic #2: Corporate Outreach/u> Integration Efforts==

______________________________[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emma_de_Leon Emma de Leon] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lexy_Foor Lexy Foor] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sally_Todd Sally Todd]

Claire Fulk&nbsp; [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Innovative_Spaces James Madison University Innovation Spaces[Poppy Crawshaw|Poppy Crawshaw]] [[Arie Bradley|Arie Bradley]] [[Andrew Payne|Andrew Payne]] [[Kerry McCullagh|Kerry McCullagh]] [[Sabrina Hammell|Sabrina Hammell]] [[Christopher Jones|Christopher Jones]] [[Corinne Brady|Corinne Brady]] [[Roman Cook|Roman Cook]]