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= '''Strategies for Change:''' =

== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within the Student Body ==

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Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:

=== 2: Maker Market: ===

Program Pitch: The Maker Market is platform for students to sell [only] the fruits of their creativity/labor (this could be room decor, room contraptions, gadgets, digital developments, paintings, food, hand crafts, ornamental things, hand-made jewellery or keychains, plants they grew, etc) to other students. This will function as both an opportunity for students to exercise their creative confidence, launch potential start-ups in a safe environment and receive feedback before stepping into the real world, and provide a place for other students to buy cheap, homemade items. The Maker Market will target students in all year levels, with no limit on the amount of students interested. Our market will target two main groups: students interested in learning about running a small business, and students interested in purchasing homemade goods. For students wanting to sell, the market will give them a platform to test their product, receive feedback, and possibly even make sales in a safe, low-risk environment. For buyers, the market will give them a place to buy one of a kind, handmade items. Based on interest in the market, we would reach out to the Design Thinking Initiative or the Student Government Association to see if they would donate materials to use for prototyping. In order to create the Maker Market, we will need to first set up a space for the market, ideally a physical space so that sellers can get in-person feedback on their work. Next, we will start advertising the concept, sending out emails, making posters, and even hosting small meet-ups for creative people to work on their start-ups in a shared space. We will also reach out to the Makerspace club, to see if they would be interested in working with us to create the Maker Market. Ideally, these will generate student interest and start to build a community interested in sharing ideas. While we are not sure of the frequency of the market, we believe that this space will encourage innovative thinking within the student body.

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== Strategy 02: Developing resources for post-graduation pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures ==

=== Innovators’ Mentorship Program ===

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== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among faculty ==

=== EduStudio: ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

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