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Once the problem is defined such information has to be used to then guide the solution. That not only includes designing something that tends to certain necessities but the production of the resources needed to implement the solutions as well.

~~ ~~With UDM’s student government and the center’s administration board having direct access to funding and materials, Meenu’s team presented their findings and initial ideas, highlighting their peers concerns regarding their creative confidence and competence, in order to ultimately collaborate on what their new innovation center could provide and find what was needed in order to do so.

~~ ~~Together they finalized the goal to introduce both innovation and entrepreneurship to UDM’s students by working with faculty to reshape their curriculum. Which would be done by giving their students the ability to take classes that are project based, making sure to transcend any normative book-report-esqueresearch tendencies, by embedding the very same designing thinking process throughout the DNA of their courses. Together, the idea of allowing their students to be mentored by innovative coaches was born.

~~ ~~That collaboration successfully led to the final realizationelement of the design process. Such a phase is made up of continually producing great prototypes and testing. For the team, that meant putting their resources (money, faculty, departments) to use in producing their idea of restructuring their courses and being able to consistently reflect on their progress. To innovate their innovation!

~~ ~~Having produced UDM’s fourth cohort, Meenu and her team have gone through noticing that students respond better with peers as their coaches than faculty. Carefully determining how the students that were to become peer innovative coaches (or PICs) were to be compensated and figuring out methods of PIC training and key timelines. All by actively being a part of the process and reflecting throughout the PIC experience. Today, Meenu looks forward to expanding the program and “getting PICs integrated more into helping the faculty with forming the projects” in order to aid their on-the-groundperspective.

Now, the University of Maryland has an extremely admirable two-semester-long training that students take in order to understand the design thinking process, take on the mindsets that are conducive to innovation, and see that in order to truly be able to be influential a peer innovation coach must be a coach (an individual who guides and works alongside students) rather than an advisor (an individual that just instructs and solely helps the faculty). The result leads to a vast amount of students gaining creative competence from their peers and now knowing what to do with ideas that could impact their communities and eventually the world!

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