Priorities:Ohio University Student Priorities

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1. Creation of the Cross Collaborative Student Action Group (Alex’s Project)

• The mission of CC STAG is to bring organizations, under the umbrella of entrepreneurship, together to provide key strategic advice as well as revealing synergies between the groups in order to collaborate together & maximize value added.
• The CC STAG will be the first of many steps in the pursuit of breaking down the barriers between the different disciplines on campus.
• This will lead into the planning of a cross disciplinary innovation course. The course will bring students from different majors and different colleges on campus into the process of solving real world problems and working towards the creation of startups.

2. Formation of the Bobcat Hatchery Program (Lori’s Project)

• provide student entrepreneurs with access to a student coach that will work with that student from ideation to launch
• provide student entrepreneurs with a mentor from someone in their respective industry or entrepreneurial experience
• connect student with resources on campus in order to help them pursue their goals
• provide opportunities to pursue their idea upon completion of the Bobcat Hatchery Program.

3.    Spreading the Entrepreneurial Spirit throughout the whole campus.

We will do this through an array of methods.

• Implementing a campus wide Innovation Challenge Series; this will help facilitate the conversation and implementation of entrepreneurship into areas otherwise untouched by the subject. The Series will be a collection of challenges throughout each semester that any student (or faculty) can participate in.  The Challenges will be cheap and non exclusive in order to encourage participants to think at the core level of innovation.
• Establish unencumbered means of communication, allowing students to participate in a free flowing conversation about innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E).

• Better promoting the focus of I&E as an ecosystem.  We will transform the way we present information across campus and encourage the conversation.

4.    Organize & deliver more resources on Innovation & Entrepreneurship through an easy to access outlet.

The Ohio University I&E Ecosystem will be fueled by the consistent learning and participation of I&E topics.  We will facilitate this need through these methods:

• Organization and execution of a large bi-annual Speaker Program.  The program will be similar to TEDx events in that the mission will be “ideas worth spreading”.  We will pull resources from our Ohio University community the surrounding communities as well as encourage alumni and established innovators to participate.
• The practice of broadening our horizons and bringing communities from all over the world into Athens & Ohio University.
• By means of virtual communication, actually visiting these communities and spreading their ideals after research.

5.    Enabling student entrepreneurs to follow their Dreams.

The I&E community will come together to support our student entrepreneurs. We will encourage, enable, empower and enrich each student in order to help them become the greatest versions of themselves.  The knowledge, experience and wisdom they gain from the community will directly and indirectly better their ideas and businesses

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