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= Strategy #1 - Create a student led Innovation Committee <br/> =
Following the research involved in the landscape canvas of UC's current Entrepreneurship and Innovation ecosystem, it becomes clear that UC offers a range of I&E resources that is catered towards the wider entrepreneurship community, that already contain ties to industry. Whilst this is important and beneficial towards the UC community, there is an obvious disconnect of these resources towards students who want an introductory "taste" of I&E, and don't necessarily have any established venture ideas in mind.
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Annually, a changeover should occur in which current student change agents should handover the roles. This process would involve mentoring, in order to continue developing projects so that there is long-term sustainability and longevity of student innovation and entrepreneurship at UC. </span>
= Strategy #2 - Improve social events Women in STEM and collaboration between clubs and societies design summit =
Examining the current social innovation and cultural entrepreneurial clubs and societies during Market Day on campus at UCO'Week, we possess an incredibly diverse range of sportingI was disappointed to see no female representation. From ICT, academiccoding, social and cultural entrepreneurship based societies, no females were present in promoting the clubs awareness. Within some of these societiesHaving stayed and observed a society that promoted entrepreneurship/design thinking, there already contains a tie the two most common things spoken by women when expressing their hesitations to join was “My idea in mind isn’t to outside organisations, some having origins from these organisations, such asbe an entrepreneur” or “ I wouldn’t fit in well”. Another common quote spoken was Enactus"I'm not an entrepreneurial type person, Rotaract or Amnesty Internationalbut I am interested in design thinking”. These direct ties towards communityHaving interviewed the president of this club in regards to female representation, share common goals and aspirations with he said that of human centered entrepreneurship and Innovationthere are actually more female members than male, whereby yet when it got to the common goal stage of finding solutions pursuing a start up, women tended to situations and problems affecting drop off towards the world is universally sharedlater stages.
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<ol ul style="margin-left: 0.375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><li><span style="font!--StartFragment--size: 11pt;">Conduct 1 on 1 interviews with every club and society on campus to</span></li><li><span ol style="fontmargin-sizeleft: 0.375in; direction: 11ptltr;">Host regular meetunicode-ups, doco nights and competitions, between clubs</span></li><li><span style="fontbidi: embed; margin-sizetop: 11pt0in;">Oraganise a week of margin-bottom: 0in; fun cross-society games and competitions that showcase I&E that is relevant to the club</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Create a website for clubs and societies that is regularly updated with points of contacts, drops in info sessions, and 'what's been happening' interactive forum'</span></li><li><span style="font-sizeweight: 11ptbold;">Recruit significantly more students to be members by promoting incentives (skills gained, networking opportunities, make friends with like minded people etc.)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Introduction of tech based societies that align Organise an initial meeting with advancements in faculty members</span></li>
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Undergoing UIF training encouraged me to seek and pursue all resources on campus leading to innovation and entrepreneurship, uncovering networks of faculties whom are highly interested In the student experience and are willing to help student initiatives. By having an early meeting, faculty will be able to give us links to networks whom can help facilitate and aid our event.<ol style="margin-left: 0.375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Allocate an appropriate date location and time for event</span></li></ol>Once the event has been discussed with relevant administration and faculty, we can then start allocating a date that fits in appropriately with the academic calendar for the incoming (or next) year. From there an appropriate location will be booked with times to be later confirmed<ol style="margin-left: 0.375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Reach out to female community leaders for interest</span></li></ol>This will either occur via e-mail or ideally in person through community events, such as the SheLeads conferences whereby we can pitch our idea to female trailblazers in hope that they too share the passion for advocacy at a higher education level.<ol style="margin-left: 0.375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Write up attendee list and agenda</span></li></ol>After having previously contacted and communicated interest from relevant leader, start organizing attendee list and agenda which should be immersive and experiential in the design thinking process.<ol style="margin-left: 0.375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Formally invite guest speakers to attend summit</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Prepare resources and materials for summit </span></li></ol><!--EndFragment--> </li></ul>