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Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation innovation and Entrepreneurshipentrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on of the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do , and also inspires their the dreams that will fuel these actions.

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as in things as simple as : written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking creative thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking collaborative thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that , which will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to will support the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc . come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of the Leadership Circle and the other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at -large can see what is going on with the movement.

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened.

*Faculty across multiple disciplines , and from a variety of schools across campus , have been brought on board to be part of the movement , and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were have been, and are continuously being , sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing to complete actionable items on in regards to this , as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation innovation and Entrepreneurship entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for the Fall Semester semester to greet our students.