PROJECT #5 - Hackathon/"Hacking" for non-hackers[6-9 months]
At GVSU, we believe the pipeline to developing a strong entrepreneurship and innovation community is bottlenecked at the discovery phase.
Our findings from our Observations and conversations around campus research has yielded 4 main learning points:have eluded to the interest in entrepreneurship within the student body. Faculty have been developing a curriculum with a focus on venture creation and interdisciplinary collaboration to scale with the interest in startups. Design thinking is becoming a buzzword around campus through multiple events that have tested and validated the student response to innovation programming. This new wave of interdisciplinary, creationary classes have garnered more interest than the new, albeit traditional, entrepreneurship classes housed within the business school.
<span style="font-family:arialIn addition to classes testing the value proposition of entrepreneurship and design thinking,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e973c2dd-91c6-1b8e-fe27-245cda0d746d"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">1two competitions have emerged on campus promoting diverse teams to solve problems within society. The initial response has been a mix of students from diverse backgrounds. We have This signals that the resources for idea development and protyping with the expansion entrepreneurial mindset is expanding to fields of study outside of the technology showcase/makerspace/library business, engineering and plans for a digital media studiocomputer science.</span></span></span>
<span style="fontA hackathon for non-family:arial,helvetica,sanshackers is a smaller commitement than a semester-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e973c2dd-91c6-1b8e-fe27-245cda0d746d"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">2long class and less intimidating than the national/international competitions currently available. The Design Thinking Initiative has also found a need to bring event would be ideal for students from different disciplines together to better prepare students for test the skills required post-graduationwaters in a fun, low commitement way. Design Thinking classes are The ideal outcome of the hackathon would be to ignite and build the community of entrepreneurs on trial this semestercampus.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family:arialWith a stronger community dveloped,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e973c2dd-91c6-1b8e-fe27-245cda0d746d"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">3the growth of resources offered becomes justified by the demand. Current entrepreneurial initiatives on campus typically draw This cycle would help maintain momentum through semesters as the same dedicated group champions of studentsentrepreneurship graduate. Hack Your Campus was a step towards fostering “atypical” entrepreneurs.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">4. Honors students have expressed interest in ventures as opposed to research papers for senior projects.</span>
With these findings we believe that a Hackathon can ignite a spark in students, who can then carry the venture forward as a possible senior projecthttps://docs. google.com/presentation/d/1QS0Tb4mLFEzWQadtjIyeLCn29TU8mumVrXQAKhhiJ_s/edit#slide=id.gbd9d7faf9_0_0