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= <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansxx-seriflarge;">Overview</span> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">Michigan Tech’s campus is poised to be a model for student innovation and entrepreneurship. The State of Michigan has recognized the Houghton / Hancock area as a hotbed of innovation, and efforts to connect the School of Business and the School of Engineering are creating new business opportunities daily.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">The problem isn’t ideas. It rarely ever is. Uniquely, Michigan Tech doesn’t suffer from a talent gap. Michigan Tech’s engineers are recruited around the globe for their hands-on experience and industry-focused education.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">We’ll include a story to summarize the problem at Michigan Tech: &nbsp;One day in early April, a venture capitalist (VC) from Silicon Valley came to Michigan Tech to do due-diligence on a new technology being developed in 3D printing. The VC gave a speech and discussed her time at Stanford. She said, “I never thought about being involved in venture capital, but when I got to school, everyone was talking about starting a business and I felt like I needed to get plugged into that ecosystem.” Michigan Tech lacks that passion, enthusiasm, and culture. These three strategies are designed to remedy that challenge.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">A new center for innovation and entrepreneurship&nbsp;is the proposed solution. It uses new academic opportunities, event programming, and startup support to drive a culture shift towards innovation and entrepreneurship.</span></span>

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= <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansxx-seriflarge;">Strategies for Expansion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus</span> =

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategy One: Innovation and Brainstorming Course</span><br/> =Connecting Students through Sustainability=

<font facespan style="arial, helvetica, sansfont-serifsize:larger;">Currently, When analyzing the first year engineering experience at Michigan Tech, it became evident that some students can be found using felt disconnected from their brainstorming and innovation skills peers in classdifferent majors. These skills are typically not used again until the student reaches their fourth or fifth year and are taking Senior Desing or join an Enterprise TeamFor some reason, there was a barrier that was a barrier that was keeping these students from interacting with students that were in other majors. There are many instances where students have a hard time trying To defeat this barrier, we want to be able to think incorporate design thinking into some different areas of ideas for projects because they are trying our campus to focus better help our peers be able to work with one another to work on a common goal. One class on what they have learned from the books, but when they get our into Michigan Tech campus that sees a majority of the real student body already tackles large worldissues in a lecture type setting: Global Issues. Changing a class can take a lot of steps to implement. During this class changing process, the answer will not our team wants to get evidence of how students working together to work to a common goal could be in a good addition to the back of the bookclass as well as get students more involved on our campus.</fontspan>

This class will help <span style="font-size: larger;">To do this, our team plans on taking four steps: hosting sustainability workshops in our campus's MakerSpace, deploying a sustainability survey through the first year students to continue to use gage their brainstorming interest on the topic, launch a sustainability initiative on the Michigan Tech campus with the help of different organizations and innovation tools that they have learned so that they can use these tools in the future. This course will also help guide students student body, and implenting changes to think outside the box so that it is easier Global Issues class to tackle problems in future courses incorporate more design thinking and in the real worldteam work.&nbsp;</span>

== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">Strategy Two'''Sustainability Workshops: Invention Space&nbsp;'''Initially we want to start out with some sustainability workshops to see what portion of students are interested in taking a part of a conversation about sustainability. To do this, there will be three different workshops. It will be optional to attend any one of them without attending previous ones to work with the changing schedule of an everyday student. In these workshops, there will be a DIY recyclable project, a sustainability conversation, and a design thinking challenge to get students thinking about their own environmental "pawprint" as a Michgan Tech Husky.</span> ==

'''<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">Campus Survey:</span>&nbsp;'''<span style="font-size:smalllarger;">A small maker space is currently in Next, we plan on taking a poll through the works campus, ideally through first-year students to be implemented in get their perspective on the current Enterprise labnew campus they've become accustomed to. At In this timesurvey, there are very few spaces on campus will be questions about where students can come together and work collaboratively and have access to prototyping tools and supplies. Much of the renovation necessary to create an effective invention space has been completedtheir interest lies in different sustainability issues whether it be recycling, garbage, renewable energy, but additional support is needed to gather tools and suppliesother topics. This space will allow us to obtain help see what sort of initiatives the student feedback body would be interested in order to potentially expand to a much larger persuing and extensive invention space seeing implemented on their campus.</span></span>

<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;"><span style="font-size'''Sustainability Initiative:small&nbsp;">This space '''With the data found from the campus survey, the team will serve multiple purposes outside of providing a collaborative workspace. It can be used able to hold classes in an non-traditional style classroom find what larger interests our new students have with an alternative setupchanging their campus. The Invention Space will also host events focusing We plan on innovation taking these passions from the student body and entrepreneurship creating an initiative that everyone can take a part of changing on their campus mentioned below. The space will also serve This can be done by reaching out to different areas of the campus and helping with initiatives that are already in place as well as an "IP Free" zone in hopes that students would sustaining our own. We want to be less worried about having able to create a community where people are able to worry about legal issues with the University help each other and more focused on creating new ideaswork together to reach our common goal of sustainability.</span></span>

'''<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">Global Issues Revamp:</span>&nbsp;'''<span style="font-size:smalllarger;">Key Features:</span>Once we are able to bring different majors together to encourage design thinking to bring solutions to our own campus, we want to bring this data to the faculty that teach the Global Issues class at Michigan Tech. We see great potential in this class to help students gain a larger appreciation for the subject. Incorporating more group work to assign students to different world issues will help students gain an understanding for what is going on in the world outside their bubble on the Michigan Tech campus.</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=<span style="font-size:smallx-large;">Movable furnitureStrategy Two: tables with adjustable heights, adjustable rolling chairs, and stackable seating.</span>Innovation Learning Community</span>==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">Prototyping supplies: one wall With the formation of the new Pavlis Honors College on Michigan Tech's campus, the are plenty of new opportunities available to introduce innovation and creative thinking early in the student experience. One of the room will be lined best ways to inspire a shared vision within students is provide them with the opportunity to spend time with cheap craft supplies and other students who are interested in similar ideas. By creating an array environment where students are constantly challenged to think differently in their everyday experiences, they will develop a more diverse set of tools for students problem solving skills to use</span>implement in their daily lives.</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">Technology: projector Next year the Pavlis Honors College will have a learning community for student teams first year students in the College. This will be a great opportunity to present test out some creative ways to incorporate creative thinking into residence hall life. Resident Assistants are currently required to create programs for their students to participate in and this would be an exceptional opportunity to test out some new ideas and 3. Some of these programs that they do with their students make include some of the events such as the Make-a-4 desktop computers used for product design</span>thon or the 10X Thinking Workshop.</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=<span style="font-size:smallx-large;">OtherStrategy Three: storage space for student teams, portable whiteboards, Innovation and power distribution throughout the space for students to plug in</span>Brainstorming Course</span>==

== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansx-seriflarge;">Strategy ThreeFour: I&E Event SeriesInnovation Retreat</span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">After creating an amazing collaborative space Currently, Michigan Tech has&nbsp;a focus on campusretreats for Leadership and similar skills, there will be but no such thing for Innovation. There is plenty of opportunities time within the curriculum schedules of students who are interested to attend a weekend retreat to host events focused on innovation the surrounding wilderness of Michigan Tech, and entrepreneurship. These events will focus solely on creating excitement about the new initiatives on campus Innovation and recruit motivated students for the new I&E section of the Pavlis Honors College. The Pathways team has been working on bringing in a few speakersEntrepreneurship, and the student programming board is already planning to help cultivate an event to be held in the spaceInnovative Mindset.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">Examples This retreat would help students cultivate Innovation Mindsets by presenting them with real world challenges, and giving them time to work on finding solutions for these challenges, followed by creating prototypes of events that can be held their solutions by using whatever resources they find in the space include:surrounding area. On the final day, the students will discuss challenges in the local community of Michigan Tech and how they might go about solving those challenges, as well as other strategies for staying involved in an innovation mindset after they leave the retreat.</span></span>

==<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansx-seriflarge;"><span style="font-sizeStrategy Five:small;">Speaker Series - Bringing in guest speakers who have had experience with I&E has proven to be a strong motivating force for involving students. Possible topics include opportunity recognition, legal principles, entrepreneurial finance, strategic partnering and building effective startup teams.</span>Event Series</span>==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">Make-a-thon - An opportunity for student teams After creating an amazing collaborative space on campus, there will be plenty of opportunities to come together and brainstorm possible solutions for an host events focused on innovation and all ideasentrepreneurship. Some of these projects These events will focus on creating excitement about the new initiatives on campus and ideas could potentailly be carried on after recruit motivated students for the end new I&E section of the Pavlis Honors College. The Pathways team has been working on bringing in a few speakers, and the student programming board is already planning an eventto be held in the space.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">3 Day Startup - As mentioned in the spring overview, the goal Examples of the event is to connect engineers who may events that can be interested held in working with a startup to business leaders with ideas they would love to see come to life.</span>the space include:</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">10X Thinking Workshop '''Speaker Series''' - An opportunity Bringing in guest speakers who have had experience with I&E and have proven to be a strong motivating force for involving students to understand the steps to brainstorming and prototyping an idea. One of these already happened on campus in a small scalePossible topics include opportunity recognition, legal principles, entrepreneurial finance, but the hope is to have more in order to reach more studentsstrategic partnering and building effective startup teams.&nbsp;</span></span>

== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">Strategy Four: StartupTechRecent interviews have brought to life the importance of bringing in fresh faces from outside of the Michigan Tech community or alumni who have moved on and are doing incredible things. &nbsp;Likewise, there should be speakers from a variety of disciplines.</span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">StartupTech is an Enterprise team Examples of speakers that connects top student talent we would like to student led startups. It utilizes the existing enterprise infrastructure to ensure student involvement by allowing students to work on bring in are: Debbie Sterling (Founder/CEO of Goldieblox which produces engineering toys geared for a startup team as part female market), William Henderickson (Founder/CEO of their required credits for graduation. Connecting engineering teams to students motivated by turning Avecka, Inc which specializes in particle technology, an idea into a business will help promote business development far example is E-ink), and many more than it currently is at Michigan Tech.</span>!</span>

<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;"><span style="font'''Make-a-thon''' -size:small;">The program will provide supprt An opportunity for new entreprenuers by sponsoring workshops, recruiting advisors, and giving these student teams a space to work come together and brainstorm possible solutions for an and the resources necessary to turn their dreams into realityall ideas. Hopefully this program would Some of these projects and ideas could potentailly be implemented alongside of the expansion to carried on after the larger invention space on campus, providing teams with space in a modern office equiped with state end of the art technology. Funds would also be available for some business development expenses such as travel expenses, office supplies, hardware, software licenses, etcevent.</span></span>

<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;"><span style="font'''3 Day Startup''' -size:small;">A Board As mentioned in the spring overview, the goal of Directors for the program would consist of faculty involved event is to connect engineers who may be interested in I&E on campus, working with a representative from the Houghton SmartZone and a student startup to business leaders with startup and leadership experience. The board will be responsible for selecting the ventures ideas they would love to see come to include in the program as well as monitoring the students participating in the programlife.</span></span>

== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">Strategy Five: Innovation Learning Community'''10X Thinking Workshop''' - An opportunity for students to understand the steps to brainstorming and prototyping an idea. One of these already happened on campus in a small scale, but the hope is to have more in order to reach more students.&nbsp;</span><br/> ==

==<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansx-seriflarge;"><span style="font-sizeStrategy Six:small;">With the formation of the new Pavlis Honors College on Michigan Tech's campus, the are plenty of new opportunities available to introduce innovation and creative thinking early in the student experience. One of the best ways to inspire a shared vision within students is provide them with the opportunity to spend time with other students who are interested in similar ideas. By creating an environment where students are constantly challenged to think differently in their everyday experiences, they will develop a more diverse set of problem solving skills to implement in their daily lives.</span>StartupTech</span>==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">Next year the Pavlis Honors College will have a learning community for first year students in the College. This will be a great opportunity StartupTech is an Enterprise team that connects top student talent to test out some creative ways to incorporate creative thinking into residence hall lifestudent led startups. Resident Assistants are currently required It utilizes the existing enterprise infrastructure to create programs for their ensure student involvement by allowing students to participate in and this would be an exceptional opportunity to test out some new ideas. Some work on a startup team as part of these programs that they do with their required credits for graduation. Connecting engineering teams to students make include some of the events such as the Make-motivated by turning an idea into a-thon or the 10X Thinking Workshopbusiness will help promote business development far more than it currently is at Michigan Tech.</span></span>

== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">Strategy Six: Center The program will provide supprt for Innovation new entreprenuers by sponsoring workshops, recruiting advisors, and Entrepreneurshipgiving these teams a space to work and the resources necessary to turn their dreams into reality. Hopefully this program would be implemented alongside of the expansion to the larger invention space on campus, providing teams with space in a modern office equiped with state of the art technology. Funds would also be available for some business development expenses such as travel expenses, office supplies, hardware, software licenses, etc.</span> ==

=== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">Command A Board of Directors for the program would consist of faculty involved in I&E on campus, a representative from the DialogueHoughton SmartZone and a student with startup and leadership experience. The board will be responsible for selecting the ventures to include in the program as well as monitoring the students participating in the program.</span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=<span style="font-size:smallx-large;">OverviewStrategy Seven: As mentioned above, the culture at Michigan Tech rarely centers on new inventions Center for Innovation and entrepreneurship. The Memorial Union Board X (MUBX) is designed to change this through a series of comprehensive programming opportunities outlined below.</span>Entrepreneurship</span>==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">==<span style="font-size:smalllarge;">MUBX derives its name from our student programing board: the Memorial Union Board (MUB Board). MUB Board has an extensive network and much brand recognition on campus. This new committee (MUBX) will have access to Command the programming experience, financial resources, and advisory support that are afforded to our student union.&nbsp;</span>Dialogue</span>===

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">3DSOverview: As mentioned above, the culture at Michigan Tech rarely caters to inventions and entrepreneurship. Although, the new Pavlis Honors College is in the works with Dean Lorelle Meadows to create a Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation within the college. This center would provide staff to bring all resources and inititives currently happening at Michigan Tech under one roof. Then the staff could grow as needed, working to change the culture on campus to be more entrepreneurial. The center will also house a student organization with the mission of increasing entrepreneurship from the student's perspective. The proposed name is MUBX.&nbsp;</span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===<span style="font-size:smalllarge;">MUBX will be responsible for bringing the Three Day Startup (3DS) event to Michigan Tech’s campus. The goal of event will be to connect engineers who may be interested in working with a startup to business leaders with ideas that they’d love to see come to fruition.</span>&nbsp;</span>====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">MUBX will work with be responsible for bringing the School Three Day Startup (3DS) event to Michigan Tech’s campus. The goal of Business and Economics event will be to support 3DS startups that leave the event excited about starting connect engineers who may be interested in working with a new venture by encouraging them startup to enter in the&nbsp;[http://www.mtu.edu/business/newventure/ New Venture Competition&nbsp;(NVC)]leaders with ideas that they’d love to see come to fruition.</span></span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">TEDxMUBX will work with the School of Business and Economics to support 3DS startups that leave the event excited about starting a new venture by encouraging them to enter in the&nbsp;[http://www.mtu.edu/business/newventure/ New Venture Competition&nbsp;(NVC)].</span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===<span style="font-size:smalllarge;">Last year (2012-2013), Michigan Tech held their first ever TEDx. Only 100 tickets were available and at $10 apiece, they sold out within minutes of going on sale. The event’s reach was limited, but provided a breath of energy to the campus. It got people talking.</span>&nbsp;</span>====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">MUBX wants to work with the University to send In 2013, Michigan Tech held their first ever TEDx. Only 100 tickets were available and at $10 apiece, they sold out within minutes of going on sale. The event’s reach was limited, but provided a delegate (advisor) to the TEDx conference in order to increase the ability breath of the conference energy to reach students across the universitycampus. It got people talking. &nbsp;</span></span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarge;">TechMakers I&nbsp;</span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">TechMakers will be an extension of the TechHacks concept planned and executed by the&nbsp;[https://www.involvement.mtu.edu/organization/ACM Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)]&nbsp;chapter at Michigan Tech. MUBX will support ACM and expand the event to include all majors and facilitate creation across campus.</span></span>

<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifsmall;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;">Teams that move through the 3DS program and are interested in competing in the NVC will be encouraged to attend TechMakers I as an opportunity to deliver a prototype to the NVC judges.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</span>

=== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarge;">The Opportunity to Learn</span> ===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Overview: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The greatest incentive a university can offer a student to encourage learning is credit towards graduation. By applying entrepreneurial and innovative courses to the existing curriculum structure, students will have an opportunity to grow their skill set within the I and &E space.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">By pulling together existing classes and proposing new ones, the LearnX branch will empower students to take the next step.</span></span></span></span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarge;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Lean Startup</span></span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A lean startup course has already been proposed by the NCIIA Pathways group and is being implemented during the Summer of 2014 as a pilot course. This course will hopefully grow in size and popularity as more students become interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.</span></span></span></span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarge;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Design for Organizations</span></span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Right now Michigan Tech doesn’t offer any comprehensive graphic design or marketing crash course. This (new) course will teach students the basics of the Adobe Creative Suite, as well as basic marketing psychology. The course instruction will center around working with real-world clients and applying the concepts to small businesses (start-ups) and student organizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarge;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Technology Commercialization</span></span></span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">As a continuation of a course already offered by Michigan Tech, this section will focus on how to transform research into a viable business. With a strong focus on customer voice and the business model canvas, this class will help researchers and innovators bridge the gap between idea and market success.</span></span></span>

==== <span stylefont size="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Looking ForwardGrand Challenges Scholars Program</span></spanfont> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="colorThe Grand Challenges Scholars Program has five components: rgb(0service learning, 0entrepreneurship, 0); verticalinter-aligndisciplinary, research and a global dimension. Michigan Tech has the Pavlis Honors College that parallel this program closely with five pathways: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">While these classes mark service, innovation, industry, research and global. Michigan Tech also has a great start in empowering students letter of commitment to extend their development in innovation and entrepreneurship, they won’t be enough in the long termGrand Scholars Program. As After attending the Global Grand Challenges Summit of 2015, a part quote that resonated with me was: “inspiring the engineers of LearnXtomorrow”. In order to bring this back to Michigan Tech, faculty myself and staff will be encouraged Amanda Moya, who was also able to offer one-credit seminars attend the Summit, are in areas they’re passionate about. This could range from an exploration the process of inspiring students with the intent of Google Glass bringing guest speakers to a series campus and implementing challenge programs in the Pavlis Honors College that allow students to begin working on projects and utilizing all their potential from day one of lectures their time on programming competitivelycampus.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;">Our first formal presentation of the idea is set for October 13<span style="font-size:small;"sup>th<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"/sup><span style="color: rgb(0, 02015. By the end of October 2015, 0); verticalwe hope to have the necessary stakeholders from the College of Engineering and Pavlis Honors College supporting this strategy. Amanda and I are aiming to present our challenge program idea to the first-align: baseline; whiteyear students interested in the Pavlis Honors College and also to the members of the Pavlis Honors College at an all-space: precohort meeting before the end of the fall 2015 semester in order to introduce students to the idea. We hope to gain student interest and support of the challenge program with students outside the Pavlis Honors College by advertising the guest speakers through Student Activities, MUB Board and on-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This collection campus advertising. Before the end of courses the spring 2016 semester, the goal is designed to give students who think they may be interested host the first guest speaker in innovation or entrepreneurship order to gain momentum and keep student interest. If all goes well, we would like to have the opportunity challenge program in place for students to growbegin next year, and dabblefall 2016 semester, in a formalized settingat the earliest.</span></span></span>&nbsp;</span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sanslarge;"><span style="white-serifspace: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Support the CultureLooking Forward</span> </span>====

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-25542544-461b76d2-6f14b25c-0352ab8ba8eac680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechXWhile these classes mark a great start in empowering students to extend their development in innovation and entrepreneurship, they won’t be enough in the long term. As a part of LearnX, faculty and staff will be encouraged to offer one-credit seminars in areas they’re passionate about. This could range from an exploration of Google Glass to a series of lectures on programming competitively.</span></span></span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-25542544-461b76d2-6f14b25c-0352ab8ba8eac680ee93c0f0"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechX is the culmination This collection of the previous two strategies. Once a student courses is introduced designed to give students who think they may be interested in innovation or entrepreneurship the concept of a startup through MUBXopportunity to grow, and is equipped with the tools to make the startup successful though LearnXdabble, they move onto TechX. TechX is in a startup incubator modeled after Stanford’s StartXformalized setting.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">==<span style="font-size:smalllarge;">Support the Culture</span id>=="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechX will provide a variety of resources to fledgling startups in order to support their development.<br/><br/>The concept of TechX is still being developed. &nbsp;It is being designed by student entrepreneurs, for students.</span></span></span></span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansmedium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-serif;2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontvertical-sizealign: 15pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">SpaceTechX</span></span></span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Like most universities, space TechX is in short supply at Michigan Techthe culmination of the previous two strategies. TechX will provide startups with premier workspace, featuring an open and flexible floor plan. This space will be designed Once a student is introduced to support the concept of a variety of teamstartup through MUBX, and individualis equipped with the tools to make the startup successful though LearnX, workthey move onto TechX. A modern atmosphere and amenities will encourage the best startups to call TechX homeis a startup incubator modeled after Stanford’s StartX.</span></span></span></span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MentorshipTechX will provide a variety of resources to fledgling startups in order to support their development.<br /><br />The concept of TechX is still being developed. &nbsp;It is being designed by student entrepreneurs, for students.</span></span></span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===<span style="font-size:smallmedium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">A key component to the TechX program will be access to mentorship opportunities through the University. These mentors may include one-on-ones with successful leaders in the industry, or faculty who have technical experience in the startup’s field.</span></span>Space</span></span>====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Each startup Like most universities, space is in short supply at Michigan Tech. TechX will provide startups with premier workspace, featuring an open and flexible floor plan. This space will be assigned designed to support a handpicked variety of team of advisors who will provide advice on running a startup, leading teams, raising capitaland individual, work. A modern atmosphere and so onamenities will encourage the best startups to call TechX home.</span></span></span></span>

==== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sansmedium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-serif;2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontvertical-sizealign: 15pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">FundingMentorship</span></span></span> ====

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smalllarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">While no significant funding will be provided through A key component to the TechX program, small amounts of funds will be made available access to teams in order to facilitate business growthmentorship opportunities through the University. Funding These mentors may be allocated for travelinclude one-on-ones with successful leaders in the industry, marketing materials, and business needs to help get or faculty who have technical experience in the startup off the groundstartup’s field.</span></span></span></span>

=== <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sanslarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-serif;0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontvertical-sizealign: 15pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">General OverviewEach startup will be assigned a handpicked team of advisors who will provide advice on running a startup, leading teams, raising capital, and so on.</span></span></span> ===

''<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sanslarger; background-serifcolor: transparent;">Mentorship & Student Ambassador Program</span>[[File:MTU TecHX.png]]'<nowiki/>'''<spanstyle="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: larger; background-color: transparent;">:</span>'''''

<span style= "font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arialverdana,helveticageneva,sans-serif;">More <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A common theme we have heard is that students don’t know about Michigan Techthe resources available to them- including the interests and experience of fellow students. &nbsp;In order to help connect students to each other and to faculty mentors for projects, an online database system has been proposed. This searchable database would allow entrepreneurial students and faculty to identify their needs for like-minded business partners, or with a background in certain skills. The idea is to encourage collaboration of students across various departments. &nbsp;&nbsp;All users would have the option and ability to provide as little or as much information about their skills as they’d like, and also be able to tag themselves as having experience with various methods and materials, such as 3D printing, electronics, or marketing strategies.</span></span></span> =

<span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:arialverdana,helveticageneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: smallmedium;">[[Magann Dykema|Magann Dykema]]&nbsp;- A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span>Another theme we heard is that students don't feel like they have support building social networks. To help with this, our idea was to create events that support new relationships in academics and personal life. The Student Ambassador Project would allow students to connect with students of the same major and learn about campus resources while networking.</span>

====<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium;"><span style="fontwhite-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-sizecolor: smalltransparent;">[[Josh Krugh|Josh Krugh]]&nbsp;- A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan TechFunding</span></span>====

<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sanslarger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-serif;0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="fontvertical-sizealign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: smalltransparent;">[[ARSH SAHU|Arsh Sahu]]&nbsp;- A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan TechWhile no significant funding will be provided through the TechX program, small amounts of funds will be made available to teams in order to facilitate business growth. Funding may be allocated for travel, marketing materials, and business needs to help get the startup off the ground.</span></span></span>

===<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarge;"><span style="fontwhite-space: pre-wrap; background-sizecolor: smalltransparent;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/David_Shull David Shull&nbsp;]- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan TechGeneral Overview</span></span>===

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[http[File://universityinnovationMTU TecHX.org/wiki/Brad_Turner Brad Turner&nbsp;png]]- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span>

<span style="font-familyCohort 2020 Strategy Eight:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span stylePromoting Campus in an Online Forum="font-size: small;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Michigan_Tech About the University&nbsp;]- Learn about Michigan Tech including a landscape analysis</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: smalllarger;">[http://universityinnovationWhen analyzing the online experience at Michigan Tech, it became evident that some students felt disconnected from their classes and student resources on campus. A barrier seemed to had been placed between professors and connecting to other students to get involved on campus. To defeat this barrier, we want to be able to develop a new way students approach online learning.org/indexChanging a class and the way the university outreach's to students can take a lot of steps to implement.php?title=MTU_University_Student_Priorities Michigan Tech Student Priorities&nbsp;]- Learn about what During this class and outreaching changing process, our team wants to get evidence of how students interact thought the current online systems and also how students are working get involved on</span>our campus. Updated 2020</span>

<span style="font-size: larger;">To do this, our team plans on taking four steps: hosting a meeting with interested professors to create a university template for canvas, create a new grading policy so students are actively engaged in their learning and not forgetting stuff after an exam, create one central website for students resources and student organizations, and looking into ways to help support our IT department.</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">'''Canvas Template:&nbsp;'''During this step we plan to have ten different professors who are willing to change their canvas sit down and draft a template. we believe that this will help students when going from class to class online to have a consistent spot of where information is located at. </span> '''<span style="font-size:larger;">'''Central Website:&nbsp;'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Next, we plan on taking a poll through the campus, to determine what method students would like to see resources and student organizations spotlighted. This will give us a better understanding of what we need to develop or fix. </span>''' <span style="font-size:larger;">'''Grading Restructure:&nbsp;'''In this step we will meet with current professors using the grading system we have identified and get specific research to use in a meeting with willing professors who would like to change their current grading systems. After we have this meeting we hope to have more professors adopt the grading system and get more research. After this we hope to create a university wide grading system. </span> '''<span style="font-size:larger;">Helping IT:</span>&nbsp;'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Once we are able to deliver the above steps we plan to help IT with everything. We plan to help them achieve some of their goals that they have been currently working on in order to promote us as more of a tech school.</span> =Cohort 2021=For our cohort, we've chosen focus on areas specifically involving connections. In the wake of Covid, we faced numerous challenges in terms of connecting with others and connecting with the resources and locations on campus. Our approach will focus on understanding what happened from a broad perspective; getting students to explore campus more; helping students learn about what resources exist on campus; and help give them an opportunity to show off their projects and creations. By reestablishing these connections, we hope to foster a more highly-functioning university, and get students to the place where they can be most innovative. ==Strategy Nine: Location Scavenger Hunt==<big>We've noted that navigation around campus can be challenging sometimes. Certain locations can be hard to find, and it's always a bit more work to find places for the first time. To help with this process, we're looking into setting up a scavenger hunt to help encourage students to explore campus and find new locations on their own two feet. Learning is always more impactful when you do it yourself.</big> ==Strategy Ten: Makerfaire==<big>We think it would be awesome to have people from all around the university get together and show off the things they have made. This should hopefully encourage a celebration of accomplishments and give students an opportunity to be inspired to work on their own projects.</big> ==Strategy Eleven: Resource Finder==<big>One key area we saw students struggling on campus was their lack of knowledge about university resources. We are seeking to remedy this by investigating the potential for a website and app that could help students discover the various resources and what those resources can do for them.</big> ==Strategy Twelve: Protocol for an Improved Post-Quarantine Learning Experience==<big>In Fall 2021, students and faculty returned to campuses with lingering concerns regarding in-person education. Easing the seismic transition will require learning institutions to actively engage with their demographics to determine next steps. This is particularly significant in deciding what quarantine-era adjustments will be integrated into course agendas and what modifications will be left out. Similarly, mounting pressure is weighing on universities to invest in improvements to their academic offerings following Covid-19. Determining where these opportunities exist to improve learning experiences beyond pre-Covid standards will require detailed introspection that is centered around student and faculty opinion.</big>  <big>The primary goal of this University Innovation Fellows’ project is to assess MTU’s student, faculty, and administrative bodies to generate recommended measures toward developing a post-quarantine protocol that aims to ensure an effective transition towards an improved post-quarantine learning experience.</big> =Cohort 2022=For our cohort we've decided to scale tings back in terms of what has been done in the past, we would like to centralize ourselves off of one identified problem and work together to determine solutions to solve it. This way we can each prop up each others weaknesses and use each others strengths to deliver a polished and useful deliverable. As with the previous cohort we've identifed an issue that students are often unaware of the resources they have available to them, and how to use those resources in an effective manner to bolster the value they get out of their time with the university. <br /> ==Strategy Thirteen: Student Experience Compounding Journal==Although online resources are plentiful and easy to access we've found from some of our interviews that students sometimes prefer a physical journal, something that they can hold and add to. We think that there is an opportunity to use these additions to create a journal that students can get at the end of the year, read, and then add to if they would like at the end of the year they can turn in this journal and then we can add some of the additions to the next year's "edition" for then more students to add to until we end up with a product with a lot of wisdom and insight for new students. <br /> ==Strategy Fourteen: Centralized Resource Finder==Our university environment contains a large quantity of resources available to students most of which can be easily researched online. We have found through various problem interviews that students are confused by how spread out it seems all of these resources are. This is mostly a result of departmentalized resources often not playing well with each other, thus creating a number of similar locations for different resources. This seems like it is a lot of duplicated effort that can be confusing for the end user, and also confusing for people trying to add to these sites or areas on campus. We would like to work with the university to foster a centralized solution so as to improve scalability and modularity of proposing new groups/organizations as well as an easy way for groups to announce new activities and changes. =Cohort 2023=For our cohort we focused on developing a peer mentoring program for new entering students might help them adjust to a new university or environment. By implementing peer mentoring initiatives that match current students (including transfers and international students) with experienced peers. Mentors may provide direction, answer queries, and give students an atmosphere of togetherness. This helps them in many regards like specialized help and advice that is suited to their unique requirements and problems, developing self-assurance in their abilities to make it through the educational system, this can reduce the feeling of isolation and anxiety faced by many new incoming students.  <br />=Strategy Fifteen: Peer Mentorship Program (2023-24)=Transitioning into a new college or university, particularly in a foreign nation, may be a difficult and bewildering process. A well-designed peer mentoring program may give the support, direction, and feeling of inclusion that these students require to succeed in their new surroundings. The major goal of this peer mentoring program is to help incoming transfer and foreign students make a smooth and happy transition. We hope to address their specific needs and obstacles by collaborating them with experienced Tech students, thereby boosting  personal growth, and social development.  Analysis of the information collected from discussions with stakeholders on campus, including faculty, staff, administration made it clear that first year students, specially transfer students and international students feel disoriented on campus during the orientation and transition period. There is a barrier in terms of proper and complete communication, handholding and guidance support to students. Even though there are abundant resources on campus and ample opportunities to explore campus life, incoming students are overwhelmed with the climatic and cultural change, and the onset of semester work leaves them with little ability to get comfortable with college life. We recognized an opportunity to create an innovative solution that builds on existing resources, is attentive to student needs and at the same time, is based on the value space created by faculty and staff.  We will accompany them on their journey and make them feel at ease in our campus community.  <br />=<span style="font-size:x-large;">Completed Strategies</span>= =====<span style="font-size: x-large;">Invention Space&nbsp;</span>===== <span style="font-size: larger;">A small maker space has been completed to be implemented in the current Enterprise lab. At this time, there are very few spaces on campus where students can come together and work collaboratively and have access to prototyping tools and supplies. Much of the renovation necessary to create an effective invention space has been completed, but additional support is needed to gather tools and supplies. This space will allow us to obtain student feedback in order to potentially expand to a much larger and extensive invention space on campus.</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">This space will serve multiple purposes outside of providing a collaborative workspace. It can be used to hold classes in an non-traditional style classroom with an alternative setup. The Invention Space will also host events focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship on campus mentioned below. The space will also serve as an "IP Free" zone in hopes that students would be less worried about having to worry about legal issues with the University and more focused on creating new ideas.</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">Key Features:</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">Movable furniture: tables with adjustable heights, adjustable rolling chairs, and stackable seating.</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">Prototyping supplies: one wall of the room will be lined with cheap craft supplies and an array of tools for students to use</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">Technology: projector for student teams to present their ideas and 3-4 desktop computers used for product design</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">Other: storage space for student teams, portable whiteboards, and power distribution throughout the space for students to plug in</span> =Related Links= <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">[http://universityinnovation.org/Magann%20Dykema Magann Dykema]</span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">&nbsp;- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span> [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Josh_Jay Josh Jay]<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">- A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">[http://universityinnovation.org/Rachel%20Kolb Rachel Kolb]</span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">[http://universityinnovation.org/Josh%20Krugh Josh Krugh]</span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span> [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rob_Lambert Rob Lambert]<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">- A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">[http://universityinnovation.org/Kyle%20Ludwig Kyle Ludwig]</span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">[http://universityinnovation.org/ARSH%20SAHU Arsh Sahu]</span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">&nbsp;- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Shull David Shull]</span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">[http://universityinnovation.org/Brad%20Turner Brad Turner]</span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">[http://universityinnovation.org/Adam%20Weber Adam Weber]</span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span> [[Abby Kuehne|Abby_Kuehne]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#696969;">- A Univeristy Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech&nbsp;</span>&nbsp; [[Fellow:Rachel_May|Rachel May]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A Univeristy Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Nicholas_Green|Nicholas Green]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A Univeristy Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Katherine_Dvorak|Ket Dvorak]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A Univeristy Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Peter_LaMantia|Peter LaMantia]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Samuel Raber|Samuel Raber]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lindsay_Sandell Lindsay Sandell] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Kyler Bomhof|Kyler Bomhof]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Suhayb Zeqlam|Suhayb Zeqlam]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Meg Rotole|Meg Rotole]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Fellow:Bayle LaDawn Golden|Bayle Golden]] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span> [[Michigan Tech|About the University]] - 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