Priorities:Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis Student Priorities

Overview

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has very recently been developing its identity as a site of innovation and entrepreneurship. Ideas have been in place for a while among students and faculty and now over the last semester, plans have started to take shape. The most recent ideas to action have come through interdisciplinary ideations and collaboration through The Brain Trust at IUPUI, the recent UIF chapter of IUPUI, the newly formed Innovation Student Union, and many other student organizations focused on innovative change at IUPUI.

Project Pitch Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnRrqfMr9B0

Strategy #1 Promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship to the general student body.

Students at IUPUI are still largely unaware of the vision for IUPUI to become an innovation hub. Because of its proximity to so many businesses and large corporations, IUPUI has an amazing physical proximity to natural resources of Entrepreneurship as well as access to some crucially helpful individuals. However, there is no direct flow of knowledge or outstanding awareness of these resources; they are all hidden in the depths of the schools' websites and commonly unknown to the student body. 

- Collect resource information and keep it organized.

- Make connections with the faculty who are in charge of and aware of the opportunities inside and outside of IUPUI.

- Meet with the influential individuals of IUPUI and the surrounding community to expand information.

- Promote a plan for distributing information to students through workshops, lectures, etc. 

-Create a widespread ideation platform with an easy-to-use software or game-like appearance.

Strategy #2 Bring an innovation space to IUPUI.

Students at IUPUI are still largely unaware of the future plans for the campus, but one of the pending goals is to create and utilize more maker spaces. These spaces are for student creativity and collaboration to come to life and to provide the necessary equipment for ideas to happen.

-Receive training through UIF to establish a complete goal for the future space.

-Stay in contact with faculty who are already interested in helping to create this space.

-Continue to reach out to more individuals who would be interested in a maker-space. 

Strategy #3 The In-Wave of Innovation

Due to large numbers of citywide unity events, Venture Capital firms, and innovative business bodies around the campus of IUPUI, we may be able to force the change we would like to see with an influx of outside resources to the IUPUI campus.

-Contact local VC's and Innovators to see if a student population would assist them in any way.

-Direct citywide events to have an IUPUI branch for innovative events to occur.

Expand the outside network until IUPUI must accept that innovation is the way of the educative future.

Related Links

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Student Priorities

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

Amadin Agho

Elizabeth Creamer

Cody Howell

Sierra Kennelly

Spring 2017:

Richard Anderson III