<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>
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><br/>Strategic Priorities for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Berea College Campus</span>'''
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<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
and , especially among the student body.
This studio is known as Berea Innovation Studio (BIS). Under the BIS we will</span>
Five strategic Priorities<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This studio will be known as the Berea Innovation Studio (BIS).</span>
'''1.Coding Saturdays<span style="font-family: a partnership with arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Within the computer science department to foster coding skills by hosting a 2 hour workshop at least per fortnightBIS, on Saturday morning.'''we will have:</span>
<span style="font-Lead personfamily: Ability Kakamaarial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>'''Five strategic Priorities:'''</u></span>
Milestone<span style="font-family:arial,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>
*Space and Coding Instructors search<span style="font-family:arial, August to September 2014*First eventhelvetica, First Week of Octobersans-serif;">Lead Person: Ability Kakama</span>
'''2. P2P Ideas review<span style="font-family: Through the studioarial, encourage students to share ideashelvetica, provide feedback to each other and practice with pitch and presentations.'''sans-serif;">Milestones:</span>
*<span style="font-Lead Personfamily: Ali Djirearial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Space and coding instructors search, August-September, 2014</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First event, first week of October, 2014</span>
Milestone<span style="font-family:arial,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.'''
*Start Fall 2014<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lead Person: Ali Djire</span>
'''3. 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.'''">Milestone:</span>
*<span style="font-Lead Personfamily: Solomon Alolgaarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Start, Fall 2014</span>
Milestone<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; First event"></span><br/>'''3. ''Makers’ Fair:'' Partner with the Technology Club to host prototype design and building sessions, November 2014followed by a fair to showcase these prototypes and ideas. These events should take place once every regular semester (twice per year).'''
*Draft calendar of events and stakeholder meetings<span style="font-Fall 2014*First eventfamily:arial, Spring 2015helvetica,sans-serif;">Lead Person: Solomon Alolga</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Key Partners: Technology Club, Technology department Department, and Computer Science Department.</span>
'''3. 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 and weekends.'''sans-serif;">Milestones:</span>
Lead person*<span style="font-family: Solomon Alolgaarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First event, November 2014</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Draft calendars of events and stakeholder meetings, Fall 2014</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Next event, Spring 2015</span>
Milestone<span style="font-family:arial,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 weekends.'''
*First event Spring 2015<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Leaders: Solomon Alolga and Ali Djire</span>
<span style="font-Lead personfamily: Ali Djirearial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Milestone:</span>
'''4. Design projects for business and community*<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, Spring 2015</span>
Milestone<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.'''
*Identify partners and build relationships August to September 2014*First event<span style="font-family:arial, October 2014helvetica,sans-serif;">Milestones:</span>
'''5. 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;These classes can be subject specific ">Identify potential partners and offered as seminars e.g. entrepreneurship for biology and chemistrybuild relationships, August-September, 2014</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First event, entrepreneurship for Engineering and Technology'''October 2014</span>
*Lead Person<span style="font-family: Sandra Tombearial,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).'''
Milestones<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lead Person: Sandra Tombe</span>
*Initiate conversations with Administration<span style="font-family:arial, Summer 2014*Seek to have agenda feature at Faculty meetingshelvetica, Fall 2014sans-serif;">Milestones:</span>
 *<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Initiate conversations with Administration, Summer 2014</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seek to have agenda featured at faculty meetings, Fall 2014</span>
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