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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Other: storage space for student teams, portable whiteboards, and power distribution throughout the space for students to plug in</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">After creating an amazing collaborative space on campus, there will be plenty of opportunities to host events focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. These events will focus on creating excitement about the new initiatives on campus 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 speakers, and the student programming board is already planning an event to be held in the space.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">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></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">StartupTech is an Enterprise team that connects top student talent to student led startups. It utilizes the existing enterprise infrastructure to ensure student involvement by allowing students to work on a startup team as part of their required credits for graduation. Connecting engineering teams to students motivated by turning an idea into a business will help promote business development far more than it currently is at Michigan Tech.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">A Board of Directors for the program would consist of faculty involved in I&E on campus, a representative from the Houghton 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>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: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></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">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 the programming experience, financial resources, and advisory support that are afforded to our student union.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">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></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">MUBX 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>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">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></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">MUBX wants to work with the University to send a delegate (advisor) to the TEDx conference in order to increase the ability of the conference to reach students across the university. &nbsp;</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[http://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=MTU_University_Student_Priorities Michigan Tech Student Priorities&nbsp;]- Learn about what students are working on</span></span>