<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:medium;">University: [https://www.berea.edu/ Berea College,]</span>'''</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:medium;">Team: University Innovation Fellows Team 2014</span>'''</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:medium;">Fellows: Ability Kakama, Ali Djire, Solomon Alolga & , and Sandra Tombe.</span>'''</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Top 2 Strategies Pitch Video:'''</span><br/><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.152000427246094px;">{{#Widget:</span><span class="searchmatch" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.152000427246094px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 14px;">Youtube</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.152000427246094px;">|id=0hp-Hk3l3x4}}</span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:medium;"><br/>Strategic Prioritiesfor Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Berea College Campus</span>'''</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Our delivery methodology will be to create a space, an innovation studio, where we will strive to foster activities that encourage and support innovation on campus, especially among the student body.</span>
Our delivery methodology will be to create a space<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, an innovation sans-serif;">This studio where we will strive to foster activities that encourage and support innovation on campus and especially among the student body. This studio is be known as the Berea Innovation Studio (BIS). Under the BIS we will</span>
Five strategic Priorities<span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Within the BIS, we will have:</span>
#Coding Saturdays<span style="font-family: a partnership with the computer science department to foster coding skills by hosting a 2 hour workshop at least per fortnightarial, on Saturday morning.helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>'''Five strategic Priorities:'''</u></span>
<span style="font-Lead personfamily: Ability Kakamaarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''1. ''Coding Saturdays:'' A partnership with the Computer Science Department to foster coding skills, by hosting 2-hour workshops at least every fortnight (two weeks), on Saturday mornings.'''</span>
Milestone<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lead Person: Ability Kakama</span>
*Space and Coding Instructors search<span style="font-family:arial, August to September 2014*First eventhelvetica, First Week of Octobersans-serif;">Milestones:</span>
#P2P Ideas review*<span style="font-family: Through the studioarial, encourage students to share ideashelvetica, provide feedback to each other sans-serif;">Space and practice with pitch and presentations.coding instructors search, August-September, 2014</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First event, first week of October, 2014</span>
<span style="font-Lead Personfamily: Ali Djirearial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br/>'''2. ''P2P Ideas Review:'' At the BIS, encourage students to share ideas, provide feedback for each other, and practice pitches and presentations.'''
Milestone<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lead Person: Ali Djire</span>
*Start Fall 2014<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Milestone:</span>
 *<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Start, Fall 2014</span>
 <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br/>'''3. ''Makers’ Fair:'' Partner with the Technology Club to host prototype design and building sessions, followed by a fair to showcase these prototypes and ideas. These events should take place once every regular semester (twice per year).'''
#Makers’ Fair<span style="font-family: Partner with the technology club to host a prototype design and building sessionsarial, followed by a fair helvetica,sans-serif; to show case these prototypes and ideas. These events should take place once every regular semester i.e. twice a year.">Lead Person: Solomon Alolga</span>
<span style="font-Lead Personfamily: Solomon Alolgaarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Key Partners: Technology Club, Technology Department, and Computer Science Department</span>
Milestone<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; First event, November 2014">Milestones:</span>
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First event, November 2014</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Draft calendar calendars of events and stakeholder meetings-, Fall 2014</span>*First <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Next event, Spring 2015</span>
Key Partners<span style="font-family: Technology Clubarial, Technology department helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br/>'''3. ''Hackathon and start-up preparation camps:'' Provide an opportunities for budding entrepreneurs to work on their ideas, pitches, and get funding for and feedback on their ideas. During the initial stages, these endeavors should serve to prepare these students to participate in other, established regional start-up camps and Computer Science Departmentweekends.'''
#Hackathon and startup preparation camps<span style="font-family: Provide an opportunity for budding entrepreneurs to work on their ideasarial, pitch and get funding and feedback on their ideas. At initial stageshelvetica, this should serve to prepare these students to participate in other established regional start up camps sans-serif;">Leaders: Solomon Alolga and weekends. Ali Djire</span>
Lead person<span style="font-family: Solono Alolgaarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Milestone:</span>
Milestone*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First event, Spring 2015</span>
*First event Spring 2015<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br/>'''4. ''Design projects for businesses and community:'' Partner with businesses and organizations in the community to work on projects that can be solved through innovation. A business and/or community partner would provide a challenge, and a team of students would develop and design a solution, using the BIS.'''
 <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Milestones:</span>
#Design projects for business *<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify potential partners and communitybuild relationships, August-September, 2014</span>*<span style="font-family: Partner with businesses and organizations in the community to work on projects that can be solved through design and innovative ways. A partner would provide a challenge and a team of students through the Innovation Studio would develop and design a solution.arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First event, October 2014</span>
<span style="font-Lead personfamily: Ali Djirearial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br/>'''5. ''Lobby for a class in entrepreneurship: ''Should be mandated for every student as part of Berea College's General Studies program. These classes may be subject-specific, and offered as seminars (e.g. Entrepreneurship for Biology and/or Chemistry; Entrepreneurship for Engineering and/or Technology).'''
Milestone<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lead Person: Sandra Tombe</span>
*Identify partners and build relationships August to September 2014*First event<span style="font-family:arial, October 2014helvetica,sans-serif;">Milestones:</span>
#Lobby for a class in entrepreneurship that is mandated for every student as part of general studies program.  *<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Initiate conversations with Administration, Summer 2014</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;These classes can be subject specific and offered as seminars e.g. entrepreneurship for biology and chemistry">Seek to have agenda featured at faculty meetings, entrepreneurship for Engineering and TechnologyFall 2014</span>
*Lead Person<span style="font-family: Sandra Tombearial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>
Milestones<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>
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