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Priorities:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Student Priorities

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'''''"It is imperative that Rensselaer students learn about opportunities to get involved in entrepreneurial pursuits early on in their college career in order for Rensselaer to effectively achieve the goals stated in the Rensselaer Plan. Entrepreneurship is a way of life that springs from fundamental education and research programs. We work to infuse understanding and encouragement of entrepreneurship through all schools and programs." '''''(The Rensselaer Plan - 6.1 Entrepreneurship Education and Research)

<div>'''''' </div><div>''' '''Fall 2018 Strategic Priorities</div> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priority #1 - Expand and market programs to increase freshman participation<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>One large problem we discovered is that there are not many opportunities on campus to “discover” innovation and entrepreneurship</li><li>The incoming class has no exposure to I&E through school</li><li>Stage 1: develop programs directed towards discovering I&E<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Should be easily accessible (cheap, local, etc)</li><li>Low stress, low pressure environment dedicated to learning</li><li>Get lots of student input for what they would be interested in</li></ul></li><li>Stage 2: Market, market, market<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Put well-designed posters up everywhere around the school, with a focus on postering in the freshman dorms</li><li>Send info to people running mailing lists to e-mail blast anyone that lives on campus</li><li>Give info to professors teaching freshman classes to announce to their class</li><li>Make announcements at clubs</li></ul></li><li>Stage 3: Run the program & scale up<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Run the program!</li><li>Get feedback from everyone involved in the program on what to improve on for next time</li><li>Rinse and repeat all of the steps, with new improvements based on feedback</li></ul></li></ul> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priority #2 - Educate student and faculty leaders on campus about design thinking frameworks and tools<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>The design thinking modelis very applicable to clubs and other organizations on campus.</li><li>It can be very useful for students to learn the design thinking model in class, but that starts with their professor.</li><li>Stage 1: Outline design thinking “modules” or “workshops”<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Create an outline of what topics will be covered</li><li>Interactive activities to apply design thinking</li><li>Show outline to faculty and club leaders to see if they would be interested in it</li><li>Offer to come into an actual class or club meeting and present there, or simply present to the head honchos to disseminate information down the pipeline.</li></ul></li><li>Stage 2: Conduct the workshops<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Organize a meeting (or multiple meetings) in an open space</li><li>Ensure that the workshop is very interactive and conducive to learning and applying the design thinking model</li></ul></li><li>Stage 3: Word spreads, scale up<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>If the workshop works as intended, the ideas behind the design thinking model should spread through campus organizations and classes as professors can now bring it up in class and club officers can even host their own workshops around design thinking</li><li>More students start applying design thinking to their own lives and products</li><li>Gather evidence/feedback that groups that participated in the workshop benefited</li><li>Leverage this feedback to expand to more clubs and faculty, as some of them may have been reluctant to participate at first</li><li>Ideally we can get to the point where all faculty and clubs utilize design thinking in one way or another to spread the knowledge</li></ul></li></ul> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priority #3 - Connect students to campus I&E organizations/groups<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>A large problem is that students do not know what I&E opportunities exist and how to find/contact organizations that are working on projects in need of student support/help</li><li>Stage 1: Talk to I&E campus organizations to see how they currently contact/reach out to interested students</~~div~~span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Find out what information they ask of interested students/potential members<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Names, emails, general availability, skill set, passions/goals</li></ul></li><li>Find out how they promote their work and in-progress projects</li></ul></li><li>Stage 2: Organize data into a database<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Information that students would need to know about the organization/club</li><li>Information that the organization/club would need to know about the interested student</li><li>Put into Microsoft Access, can also share info via Excel at this point to get feedback</li></ul></li><li>Stage 3: Translate this information into Website<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Understand User Interface, what users find most pleasing, easy to navigate</li><li>Have website display menus and information of organization</li><li>Page for interested students to enter their information</li><li>Send this information to the organization</li></ul></li><li>Stage 4: Market website so students know this is organized way to find clubs of interest and submit info to them to get involved</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priority #4 - “Expose” I&E<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Stage 1: Contact Innovators and Entrepreneurs at RPI<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Ask for their participation in an event → speak on their experience<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>What does it mean to them to be an innovator/entrepreneur?</li><li>How do they do this?</li><li>How did they discover their passion?</li><li>What do they to to continually maintain this priority?</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Stage 2: Contact Innovators and E’s off of campus<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Contact professionals, award winners, full-time E’s</li><li>Ask for their participation in an event → share their experiences<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>What are their daily tasks/walkthrough of a typical day</li><li>History of involvement</li><li>What makes them an innovator/E</li><li>What inspires them</li><li>Networking</li><li>Current projects</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Stage 3: Organize I&E event that showcases work and qualities of I&E’s both in and out of RPI<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Hold in McNeil room</li><li>Advertise event<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Class announcements, flyers, morning mail</li></ul></li><li>Decide on ticket/entry price  </li><li>Decide food/refreshments offered</li><li>Organize how information will be stored/retained after event<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Notes, video accessible on website, etc</li></ul></li><li>Follow-up with event speakers</li></ul></li><~~div~~/ul> <br/~~div~~><div></div>

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