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=2023 Cohort===Project 1: Monthly Talk SessionViking Entrepreneur==[[File:Screenshot 2021-12-05 122229.png|thumb|Creating a Career Marketplace at Elizabeth City State University|alt=https://youtu.be/Dx3w-Mzi08Y]]

*A monthly Ted Talk session Help Promote student entrepreneurs' businesses.*Provide a reliable and stable real-world experience for student entrepreneurs.*identify and list all student businesses.*Partner with the business department to guide and advise student entrepreneurs. ===Summary===For a small campus, Elizabeth City has the pleasure of educating various entrepreneurs in different mediums. Implementing a Viking Entrepreneur mobile app will allow students to connect and monetize on the businesses all while adding to their resumes to help prepare them for life post-graduation. Viking Entrepreneur will have a list of registered students participate in activities with businesses to set up links to their social media and websites. This will be an easy hotspot for their businesses. In order to make sure that can break up monotony students are punctual and serious with their businesses, there will be a onetime mandatory fee of $30. This will go to workshops catered to entrepreneurship, such as branding, content creation, financing, and relax so on. With the Viking Entrepreneur app it will allow for students to build those business skills outside of the mindclassroom and in real time.  ==Project 2: VikingTALK== ====Key Tactics:==== *Help Bridging that gap between current ECSU students participate in activities that can break up monotony and relax the mind.ECSU Alumni*Open to all majorsEncourage student on life post-college.

Thankfully, here at Elizabeth City State Universityprides itself on "Once a Viking, always a Viking". You see alumni come back for football games, but most importantly Homecoming. In those few times we as students have are graced by the chance to receive great opportunities wise alumni, we never connect. When you see "ECSU" and offers. The university offers various scholarships, grants, internships, career opportunities"alumni", and much morethan likely you come across the ECSU Alumni Association. However, for the current students have expressed that , it's important to make those connections with the workload can drastically affect alumni. VikingTALK will be a TEDTalk based series where ECSU alumni come back to share their journey after graduating. The series will go through their mental health over major and timeat ECSU and how that lead them into their career now. By Implementing this project would help VikingTALK it will bridge that gap between ECSU students on campus learn to balance life and college while adopting an innovative mindsetECSU alumni. Innovation essentially Viking Pride in a simple defintion means introducing something new or undergoing having joy of being a new changestudent at Elizabeth City State University. Students on campus experience change dailyHowever, that can't happen if Viking Pride stops for our alumni after they graduate and assuming an innovative perspective is not instill in those at ECSU. With VikingTALK web series there will be a website that can help them learn be accessed through the current student portal. On this website will be access to adapt various resources to their unique personal and college situations connect all VIkings. There will be a list of profiles of alumni sharing the career success stories. These will be blocked off by categorized by majors and changesinterests. HenceThere will be a portal or center for scholarships, each monthly session would feature new concepts, tipsinternships, jobs to be shared by alumni and different speakers, which educate students on how to embrace an innovative mindset and implement it into every aspect of their lives to break the monotony . This allows for efficient and reduce the risk of burnoutgenuine networking. <br /> ==Project 3: Social Inno== ====Key Tactics:====

*Establish strong connections with the local community and non-profit organizations. *Encourage entrepreneurial thinking and innovation by establishing business incubators or innovation centers on campus.*Engage alumni who have a passion for social change. *** * ===Summary:===Social Inno, a social innovation club where social issues are addressed through creative and sustainable solutions through collaborative efforts from present students & alumni with the inclusion of hosting workshops and partnerships with alumni. Workshops would involve design thinking and organizing social projects for the community in Elizabeth City. A timeframe for this would be Late January or early February of 2024. Point people for this project would include ECSU staff and administration, as well as partners with ECSU and Samantha Minton, elementary school principals. ==Project 4: Wellness Wednesdays== ====Key Tactics:==== *Series of events twice a month to educate students on health and wellness.*Encourages lifestyle changes that will impact and help the student body.*Collaborate with the Department of Health and Human Studies, Peer Wellness Ambassadors as well as Student Health Services to help organize the events and gather monthly speakers. * ===Summary:===At Elizabeth City State University, when you think Wednesday, you think Fried Chicken Wednesday. Although this tradition, has implemented a culture, it's important to educated on wellness. When speaking of Wellness, it's more than just healthy eating. With Wellness Wednesdays, it will be a series of events twice a month focusing on various health and wellness topics. Such as sexual health. mental health, fitness, nutrition, etc. =2022 Cohort===Project 1: Technologically Advanced Attendance Tracker======Key Tactics:==== *Install key card readers on campus to fulfill the lack of technological advances.*Can help professors take attendance more efficiently.*Students use student IDs to be accounted for in class.*Partner with IT to help install key card readers and create an adequate digital interface ===Summary===Implementing key card readers will fulfill the lack of technological advances on campus. The key card readers would be used to monitor students' attendance. Rather than taking attendance by calling out names or writing one's name down on a sheet of paper, students can take out their student IDs and have the key card readers scan them to ensure they are accounted for in their in-person courses. They would be placed in classrooms and lecture halls, and data on the readers can be managed from any device. Hence, professors will always be aware of who attended their class, when they came in, and when they left. <br />

==Project 2:Monthly Talk Session==

==Project 3:Communication APP REMIND==