Brad Turner is a second<span style="font-year software engineering student at Michigan Technological Universityfamily:verdana, and currently works partgeneva,sans-time as a graphic designer for Student Activities, Housing, and Residential Life at the University. After serving as a councilor at a summer youth leadership camp, he realized his passions lie in working with students and plans on applying to graduate school for student affairs and development after graduating in 2017. He spent this last summer away from his hometown, Bay City, MI, to experience a season without snow in Houghton, MI doing graphic design work and preparing to serve as the Marketing Chair for the student programming board, as well as the Vice President of Communications for the Honors Institute. He also spent time preparing to help develop incoming students as an Orientation Team Leader as well as a teaching assistant for a leadership class for the Fall 2014 semesterserif;">[[File:BradTurner2015.JPG|thumb]]</span>
Last year, '''Serving as a first-year student on campus, he became involved in many different activities and made a much larger impact on campus than he ever would have imagined. He developed marketing campaigns for on campus events, attended the Leadershape Conference in January, and was quickly elected for executive positions in multiple student groups. As a result, these groups have seen increased event attendance, positive brand recognition and a greater sense of community within their members. Off of campus he spent time working with start-up companies to develop application mock-ups and work flows to push them into various prototyping stages.UIF Since:''' Fall 2014
When not '''School: '''Michigan Technological University<br/>'''What he does now:''' Product Designer, Handshake<br/>'''What that means:''' designs software applications that help college students and recent alumni find jobs and build meaningful careers '''Contact him about:''' makerspaces, product design, facilitation (events and groups big or small), living in Silicon Valley, being out at work 🏳️🌈, or Harry Potter. <br/>'''Email: '''brad@joinhandshake.com<br/>'''Phone: '''<span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">(989) 295-2804</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d1816fcf-dc1a-4d7a-967b-2d8f364b7b72"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brad Turner studied Software Engineering at </span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[[Michigan Tech|Michigan Technological University]] </span><span style="color:#696969;">and graduated in Spring 2017, and is now a Product Designer at a startup called Handshake, workingto democratize opportunity for college students and recent alumni.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d1816fcf-dc1a-4d7a-967b-2d8f364b7b72"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Starting as a University Innovation Fellow in Fall 2014, Brad spends he discovered a way to combine his time outdoorslove of giving back to the community, with creativity and design. Depending On campus he has worked on creating a student organization that is focused on creating agents of change by using creativity and design thinking, helped launch a new makerspace, and planned and facilitated events on campus with the seasonInnovation Center for Entrepreneurship.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d1816fcf-dc1a-4d7a-967b-2d8f364b7b72"><span style="color: rgb(102, he can be found kicking 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His experiences as a soccer ball around summer leadership camp counselor and Orientation Team Leader have expanded his passion for working with some friends or carving down the slopes students and creating meaningful activities and events. These events include, but are not limited to, [[Uifresh|#uifresh activities]] during orientation, a makerspace design thinking session, and many smaller in-class workshops.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d1816fcf-dc1a-4d7a-967b-2d8f364b7b72"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outside of Mont Ripley Michigan Tech he has worked at Epic as a Software Engineering Intern and spent a summer at Handshake as a Product Design Intern working on his skisdemocratizing career opportunities for current college students and recent graduates. He also enjoys capturing the beauty of the world </span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d1816fcf-dc1a-4d7a-967b-2d8f364b7b72"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now in San Francisco working at Handshake, you can find him running around him through photography, and spends exploring the not-so-nice days inside editing Bay Area, trying to navigate a quickly scaling startup, and uploading those photos remembering to share with take the rest of the worldtime to slow down and take breaks. </span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d1816fcf-dc1a-4d7a-967b-2d8f364b7b72"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To reach Brad, please email him at bradleytbrad@mtujoinhandshake.com</span></span></span></span> = <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:xx-large;">More about Michigan Tech</span></span> = <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[Magann Dykema|Magann Dykema]] - A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[Michelle Hoard|Michelle Hoard]] - A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[Carly Joseph|Carly Joseph]] - A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[Josh Krugh|Josh Krugh]] - A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[Nichole Mackey|Nichole Mackey]] - A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[Nate Peterson|Nate Peterson]] - A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[ARSH SAHU|Arsh Sahu]] - A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/David_Shull David Shull ]- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Brad Turner '''- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[Michigan Tech|About the University]]''' '''- Learn about Michigan Tech including a landscape analysis</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[http://universityinnovation.edu or call him at 989org/index.295php?title=MTU_University_Student_Priorities Michigan Tech Student Priorities ]- Learn about what students are working on</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[http://www.2804mtu.edu/ Michigan Technological University] - Michigan Tech's website</span></span> [[Category:Student Contributors|b]][[Category:Student Contributors]]