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= <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Fall 2015 Innovation Fellows'''</span> =
=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Rachel Silk – Marketing and Entrepreneurship ‘16</span>===
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Rachel is an active member of the entrepreneurial environment at UMass Lowell. A participant in the DifferenceMaker Program, her team started a non-profit, Love of the Game, dedicated to connecting people with disabilities to their community through sports. As an Innovation Fellow, she hopes to unify the university by generating increased awareness for the offerings for I&E.</span>
=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Stephen Kender – Plastics Engineering ‘18</span>===
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Stephen is also active in the innovative culture in the community around him. He and his team started a sports equipment company, KEnDERS Athletic Body Armor, around a novel and revolutionary technology. With the training from the Innovation Fellows program, he hopes to develop new and existing entrepreneurial skills so he can bring back a plethora of opportunities for his school and his community.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">When the program ends, we will funnel participants directly into the DifferenceMaker competitions</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Program Layout</span>
**<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> Session 1: Pitch Ideas/Problems</span>
***<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Form teams/solutions</span>
***<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Do not have to present they could just write it down and we could read it out loud.</span>
**<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Session 2: Reach out to teams, guide them with their solutions</span>
***<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Make sure things are viable/the team is passionate enough if it is not viable</span>
**<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Session 4: Mock Shark Tank (Practice for College Competitions)</span>
==== <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Timeline</span><br/> ==== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"></span>''Spring 2016''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">: Begin organizing and promoting the program, gearing up current students on the fence about entrepreneurship</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">''Spring/Summer 2016'': Talk with faculty and organizations on campus about being speakers in our Tank program</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">''After Program'': Meeting with DifferenceMakers, faculty, etc. to see where to improve</span>
=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Prototyping Hackathons</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">· Current hackathons at the university are just idea mixers, due to the lack of spaces available for a prototyping one</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">· New makerspaces and centers for innovation open up amazing possibilities</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">· Hackathon allows students to get creative with others in the end goal of creating a prototype to solve a problem</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">· Hackathons will be hosted in the Spring semester (possibly integrating a Fall semester one in the future) and will be a lead-in to other DifferenceMaker Programs. Typically will be 48 hours.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">· Will have one or more themes (somewhat specific) to guide teams in their ideation</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">''Fall 2016''Current hackathons at the university are just idea mixers, due to the lack of spaces available for a prototyping one</span>*<span style="font-family: Once dates verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">New makerspaces and spaces are finalizedcenters for innovation open up amazing possibilities</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva, reach out sans-serif;">Hackathon allows students to local industry suppliers for donations get creative with others in the end goal of creating a prototype to solve a problem</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Hackathons will be hosted in the Spring semester (possibly integrating a Fall semester one in the future) and connectionswill be a lead-in to other DifferenceMaker Programs. Typically will be 48 hours.</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Will have one or more themes (somewhat specific) to guide teams in their ideation</span>
==== <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Timeline</span><br/> ====
<div>''Fall 2016''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">: Once dates and spaces are finalized, reach out to local industry suppliers for donations and connections</span></div>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">''Winter 2016'': Continue collecting donations, work with DifferenceMaker program to develop specific themes and rules. Advertise and promote the hackathon (announce theme and rules before winter break)</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">''Spring 2016'': Host hackathon and collect feedback on how well it was operated. Contact donors and see if they are alright with being recurring sponsors at annual events</span>
=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">TEDx</span>===
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">· This event will be centered around inspiring students toward innovation with tips from local entrepreneurs</span>*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Will engage the broader innovative community</span>
==== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">· Will engage the broader innovative communityTimeline</span>====
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">''Fall 2016'': Organize a date and location with the university (or with the city)</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">''Spring 2016'': Advertise more heavily and finalize list of speakers. Host event, and figure out where to improve</span>
== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''CONNECTING FACULTY AND STUDENTS'''</span>==
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">One other project we will be working on involves connecting students to faculty to help them learn more about a specific skill. We currently have a Mentor Program, but for students needing a basic education in a certain area it is much too formal.</span>
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= <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''2013 Innovation Fellows'''</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Pitch Videos'''</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Kevin Desjardins'''</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">[[File:|Unknown Object]]</span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Ana Gouveia'''</span>
=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''James AbdallahAna Gouveia'''</span>===
=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">[[File:|Unknown Object]]'''James Abdallah'''</span>===
=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Jacob Hulme'''</span>===
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== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Enhance & Synergize the University I&E Ecosystem'''</span>==
=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Inspire Club'''</span>===
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Inspire Club seeks to introduce students to innovation and entrepreneurship as well as connect them to campus and community resources such as ‘DifferenceMakers”, “M2D2”, “E For All”, etc. Weekly meetings will be held to expose students to an assortment of enriching experiences from innovative business model development tools and rapid prototyping exercises to guest panels and networking events. Students will be encouraged to develop ideas and solutions on an individual basis as well as to form teams in which they will combine, re-create, refine, and expand on them. We believe that this approach will engender high levels of student leadership and foster teamwork. Inspire will become an integral part of the student I&E pathway leading students from simple ideas to sustainable venture ready models. The skills learned will reflect the lean and iterative nature of the evolving economy and not only be valuable for start-ups but also in a traditional corporate environment where forward thinking, collaboration, and creativity are rapidly being adopted.</span>
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=== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"> '''Goals of Inspire:''' </span>===
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"> Introduce creative problem-solving, innovation and entrepreneurship</span>
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= <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Related Links'''</span>=
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">[http://universityinnovation.org/University%20of%20Massachusetts%20Lowell University of Massachusetts Lowell]</span>