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[https://youtu.be/Si58ZDWdniU Informing James Madison University About Areas of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Across Campus]
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The University of Pittsburgh is a well-known leader in innovation within the fields of engineering and medical research.&nbsp; Translational research and entrepreneurship exist primarily at the institutional level.&nbsp; Many organizations exist, like the Institute of Entrepreneurial Excellence, to give budding entrepreneurs the needed resources and inspiration to proceed from ideation to market.&nbsp; In the last 20 years alone, such programs have created more than 800 startups and 7,000 jobs in the Pittsburgh area.&nbsp; Between the sheer amount of research conducted and available seed funding (Coulter Program for bioengineering devices, other VC connections through Institute of Entrepreneurial Excellence) Innovation and Entrepreneurship needs only to be catalyzed to take off, since all necessary ingredients are in abundance at the University of Pittsburgh.
 
  
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However, there is a huge gap on campus between these institutions and undergraduate students.&nbsp; Most students are unaware of PantherlabWorks (a commercialization accelerator) and do not know that the university offers patent and IP counseling through the Office of Technology Management/Office of Enterprise Development.&nbsp; At present, these institutions mainly serve graduate students and faculty.&nbsp;
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[https://youtu.be/IjWHk05M9Ac James Madison University Cohort 4A Video Pitch]
  
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Fortunately, administrators are beginning to take a strong interest in university-facilitated patent development and product realization for undergraduate students.&nbsp; Professors from the Industrial Engineering department will soon introduce a product realization certificate to span all majors and the chemical engineering department has recently revamped its sophomore and junior year curriculum to more intently convey design principles.&nbsp; The mechanical engineering department, too, has been steadily increasing the focus on sustainability and marketability in undergraduate design classes, as in ‘MEMS 0024: Intro to Mechanical Engineering Design.’
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQchRx6HDM Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurial Opportunities at James Madison University&nbsp;]
  
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Still, it is clear that there is more work to be done.&nbsp; In many other disciplines, serious project management/design courses are not mandatory until senior year.&nbsp; Further, freshman students are NEVER formally exposed to the opportunities of product development for engineers.&nbsp; The best opportunities for undergrads to get involved in projects are in extracurricular clubs.&nbsp; Engineers for Sustainable Medical Development (ESMD), Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) are three of the strongest organizations on campus for completing actual projects with significant impact in local and global communities.
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We seek to expand upon and merge into a community, the values and practices of these groups. &nbsp;Two gaps we seek to bridge as UI Fellows are as follows:
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Create two new majors for the University: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  
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==Tactic #1: Grant Writing, Start-Up, Interdisciplinary Classes==
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#*Connect product ideas that have market value with teams capable of producing them.&nbsp; Provide access to funding and guidance for these teams. &nbsp;
 
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#*Allow such teams to function effectively and provide the necessary inspiration/motivation to get undergraduates interested in I&E.
 
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*Description:&nbsp;Create academic opportunities for students to learn skills related to innovation and entrepreneurship that could then develop into a more formal program.&nbsp;
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==Tactic #2: Establish contacts and a Network of interested parties within and outside of JMU==
  
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*Description:&nbsp;We would need faculty and professors to facilitate classes, and reaching out to interested professors and faculty at JMU and in the surrounding Harrisonburg Community is a good way to create those connections.&nbsp;
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Academic Year Challenge
 
  
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*Where: Benedum Hall, Room TBD&nbsp;
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==Tactic #3: Create an Interdisciplinary Group of Professors to Create a Rich Learning Environment==
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*When:&nbsp;November 19th, 2013
 
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*Description:&nbsp;Innovation and Entrepreneurship are interdisciplinary subjects, and therefore require knowledge from all departments on campus.&nbsp;
  
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Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
 
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The X-Labs Files
  
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•&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: Students in the Pitt Business school are currently looking to launch an entrepreneurship club- one that would connect mixed groups of students to form cohesive teams (engineering, business, law, etc. students) and validate market potential.&nbsp; In partnering with this effort, an advisory board for I&E would seek out possible projects and give them to an able team.&nbsp; It would be the goal of such a board to find the need on campus for different products, looking for possible ideas in extracurricular clubs, professors, and perhaps, industry.&nbsp; These projects would be assigned to a team that applies with a plan to complete them, and they would be guided to the IP resources on campus and eventually to the proper contacts in the Business school for marketing advice. &nbsp; &nbsp;
 
  
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*Description:&nbsp;Support students and faculty during this extremely stressful time, and make the most of the opportunities and challenges presented by online learning.&nbsp;
  
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==Tactic #2: Create Resources for Faculty to make their Teaching more Innovative==
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*Description:&nbsp;We will create a compilation of resources and tutorials for these existing resources for professors to utilize in their classes to make them more effective and conducive to learning.&nbsp;
  
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==Tactic #3: Give Faculty the Confidence to be Innovative==
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•&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: Professors in the Engineering Education Resource Center (EERC), are in the process of applying for a grant to host seminars and challenge sessions for next semester.&nbsp; As Innovation Fellows, we have been given the opportunity to help plan these events and hope to use them to foster support (especially at the freshman/sophomore level) for the movement.&nbsp; Current seminar ideas include: Dinner with entrepreneurs, microGrant challenge, skill seminars.&nbsp;
 
  
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*Description:&nbsp;By providing tutorials and easy-to-access resources for faculty, we will encourage faculty to be innovative in their teaching style for virtual learning, and when classes return to normal.&nbsp;
  
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A program that partners students and external non-university associated businesses for experience with start ups, employment, and entrepreneurial resources.
  
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==Tactic #1: Establish Connections within the Community and Beyond Harrisonburg==
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*Description:&nbsp;We will reach out to local businesses, corporations, as well as national and international businesses to partner with the university and university students.&nbsp;
  
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•&nbsp;&nbsp; Description:&nbsp; If students are now coming up with ideas or being given projects, they will need a space to work in.&nbsp; Also, a design room provides inspiration and success stories to work with.&nbsp; With UC-Berkeley and other successful UI incubator spaces as a model, this design room would serve as a hub for students interested in getting involved with projects and competitions.&nbsp;
 
  
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*Description:&nbsp;Partnerships between the university and local community will strengthen those relationship and encourage future collaboration.&nbsp;
  
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Create an Entrepreneurship Department
  
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==Tactic #1: Centralize and Emphasize the Importance and Possibility of Entrepreneurship==
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•&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: Often, young students need to learn some basic skills before they are ready to take on a design project.&nbsp; One way to do this would be skills seminars in the design room that include 3D CAD drawing, arduinos, etc.&nbsp; Also, it may be conducive to get students to apply for machine room certification so that they can work safely in the shop when their design has reached that stage.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;
 
  
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*Description:&nbsp;The creation of an Entrepreneurship Department will emphasize the significance of entrepreneurship as well as create a centralized locality for resources related to entrepreneurship. This will allow students to have greater access to funds and opportunities as well.&nbsp;
  
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==Tactic #2: Give the Current Entrepreneurship Minor and potential Entrepreneurship and Innovation Majors a Basis==
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•&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: Another way to inspire students is to actually host design competitions in the incubator space.&nbsp; This could mean finding a competition through “mindsumo.com” or facilitating the completion of a project for entry in a local competition like the Randall Big Idea Competition.&nbsp; A winner in one of these competitions is very likely to attract many other students to the space.
 
  
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We recognize that the institutions and resources for innovation and entrepreneurship already exist at James Madison University and that we must strive to increase the utilization of these facilities. In addition, we will work to improve and update areas of the university that may not receive as much attention as some.
  
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==Tactic #1: Marketing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Survey Method==
  
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*Description:&nbsp;Incentivize students to participate in a survey to learn more about Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs available on campus with free food.&nbsp;
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**D-Hall Commons gets a lot of foot traffic every day making it an easy location to consider when implementing this survey. This is also a place that many organizations already utilize for similar ways of capturing students’ attention.
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**Festival Conference Center is the equivalent of commons, but on East Campus, allowing students who are not on the main campus to access the same information we are providing.
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**Showker Hall is where most of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs are since it is the business school, but since there is construction currently in that area, it could get a little hectic trying to find these I&E resources. Setting up a survey station there would also be beneficial in that aspect.&nbsp;
  
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•&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: University of Pittsburgh currently has lectures about various subjects with key speakers through Pitt Program Council. Most of these events are sold out and students have to line up to get tickets. Adding a TEDx events will connect students to interdisciplinary opportunities and start them in design thinking. •&nbsp;&nbsp; Team Leader: TBD
 
  
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*Description: A new, interdisciplinary, course hosted by XLabs that focuses on teaching students successful business practices, agile team management, human-centered design, and much more. The class would ask for students to form into teams and progress through the design of a project by hitting bi-weekly deadlines and then giving a final pitch to a panel of judges that would then decide on whether or not they want to financially support the teams’ project/business.
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•&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: In the engineering building, there are already many white boards on the wall to increase innovation, talk about upcoming events, and have challenges or problems presented. If they could use one of the walls that gets the most traffic and pose an open ended question, students could add to the ideas and come up with new ways to solve it. This could also be put on the outside of classrooms so that students write on it before entering a class. If they also added more whiteboards in the Business and Arts and Sciences buildings, they could pose the same question that week that was posed in the Engineering building and see how other students approach this. Team Leader: Student TBD
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**Brainstorm possibilities: it is easy to dismiss the need to improve these courses because they have been taught the same way for so long. It might even be hard to imagine, for example, learning history by any other means than reading and lecturing. A wide, creative swath of ideas should be proposed to revamp these curriculums.
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**Propose solutions: with these insights and data in mind, create a concise and clear plan and propose to one of the academic deans or a similarly influential figure in one of the liberal arts departments.&nbsp;
  
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*Description:&nbsp;An organization and summit dedicated to creating connections between various organizations on campus with interests in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.&nbsp;
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**Additionally, an annual Innovation Summit would be held for faculty and students to discuss how to implement I&E in higher education as well as the opportunities present on campus. Events could include presentations, landscape canvases, inter-group projects, and more.
  
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*Description:&nbsp;An organization dedicated to assisting students with unique, innovative ideas in the process of getting their creations patented, trademarked, or etc., as well as providing funding for this costly, time-consuming process.
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**This program would be open to any student with a passion for creating but would work closely with STEM majors who sometimes require specialized creations to be made for their Jr/Sr Capstone project.
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•&nbsp;&nbsp; Description: Students at each of the schools at University of Pittsburgh are required to take an introductory class their freshman year. We could incorporate design thinking or innovation and entrepreneurship into the curriculum.
 
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*Description: Hold seminars open to all students walking through the different opportunities found in the Landscape Canvas.
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= <div>Innovation cannot thrive in a bubble. Entrepreneurship is up-and-coming in Pittsburgh, and it’s important that undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh are exposed to this awesome movement. Ian is experiencing the entrepreneurial drive first-hand. Regardless of the value of his bioengineering degree, Ian pondered dropping out of school after his startup was admitted into the Alphalab Gear Accelerator program. Ian has feet in both realms: one in the University, one in the community. At the University, Ian is watching groups of students practicing design thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all which are valuable skills for those involved in startups. These students are driven and searching to use what they learn in the classroom on real-world projects. On the other side, Ian is (somewhat firsthand) witnessing the need for startups to hire interns with engineering, design, and business experience. &nbsp;In fact, Ian worked as an intern with his project to further the technological and business development before the thought of commercialization occurred. Why can’t other interns help young startups succeed?</div><div><br/></div><div>Startup Pitt is a smaller-scale model of Venture for America, a program that places recent college graduates in startups throughout the country. VFA Fellows have been instrumental in building businesses and helping startups succeed. Likewise, Startup Pitt interns will help Pittsburgh startups become successful while earning salary and a valuable internship experience. Of course, Startup Pitt keeps to it’s title: starting-up Pittsburgh as a center of entrepreneurship.</div><div><br/></div> =
 
  
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Bring international students to James Madison University for a 2-week summer program focused heavily on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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[http://universityinnovation.org/University%20of%20Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh]
 
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Nathan%20Smialek Nathan Smialek]
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==Tactic #1: Course Variety==
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Brian%20Rhindress Brian Rhindress]
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*Description: Provide courses in various fields of study to encourage a wider audience of students.
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**Examples:
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***Engineering
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***Business Start-Up
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***Rapid Prototyping
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Karuna%20Relwani Karuna Relwani]
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==Tactic #2: University Exposure==
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Jennifer%20Sommer Jennifer Sommer]
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*Description: Introduce students to campus and University life in the United States.
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**JMU Dining
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**Student Organizations
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**Residential Life
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**University Recreation
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**Speaking with Professors
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Ian%20McIntyre Ian McIntyre]
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==Tactic #3: Hackathon Connections==
  
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[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]
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*Description: Provide students with the opportunity to make connections through a hackathon that would take place during the summer school program.
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**Sponsors could incorporate prizes.
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**Company employees and James Madison faculty would serve as mentors during the innovative process.
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**Students can search for potential jobs or internship opportunities.
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**Participants are given the opportunity to engage in design thinking.
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'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 4: Programming Competition/Workshop</span></span>'''
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*<span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Description: 24-hour programming competition. Every level of programming experience you have, you are welcome to attend this competition. There will be various programming workshops taught during the competition to sharpen your skills. Companies will sponsor the event for prize money and recruiting opportunities. Judges will consist of CS, CIS, Engineering or any related discipline professors.</span>
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*<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Takeaways:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"></ul>
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*<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Get students more interested in programming at a low stakes level.</span></span>
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*<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Give students the opportunity to talk with recruiters to get an idea of what careers involve programming.</span></span>
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*<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open for all years (Freshman - Seniors) and for all majors</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"></ul>
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*<span id="docs-internal-guid-7aaa6134-7fff-0a5a-d051-f8fa34a7d61d"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Programming is starting to become a valuable skill in many different professions, not limited to Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, etc.</span></span>
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=<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #8</span>=
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Expand X-Labs space within Lakeview Hall and throughout campus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.
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==Tactic #1:Convert Office Spaces==
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*Description: Transforming the current offices in Lakeview Hall into an expanded collaborative work and maker space.
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**Remove non-innovative spaces in Lakeview Hall to provide more room for innovation and space for more technologies.
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==Tactic #2: Implement Into JMU General Education Curriculum==
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Create a new cluster of required classes for JMU students that will enhance the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.
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*Description: The entrepreneurial mindset is an important tool for all incoming and existing students as a form of engaged learning.
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==Tactic #3: Satellite Maker Spaces==
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*Description: Convert or improve current lab spaces around campus into X-Labs affiliated maker spaces.
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**Help to promote X-Labs names and encourage participation in innovative opportunities.
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**Further, establish X-Labs as an asset to the JMU ecosystem.
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=<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #9</span>=
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Create Collisions amongst entrepreneurially minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
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==Tactic #1: Theme Based Think-A-Thons==
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*Description:&nbsp;Cultivate talent in theme-based hack-a-thon style events that correlate to the various colleges of academics, but appeal to the general population. We would want to create a brand that does not alienate or intimidate students that don’t necessarily think of this as “their” thing.
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**1-2 times per month
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**24hr Think-A-Thons
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**Various themes/prompts that represent the interests of all the colleges of academics
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***College of Education:
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****Reinvent the classroom
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***College of Health and Behavioral Studies:
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****Create low-cost products that meet the basic needs of the world's poorest people
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***Integrated Science and Technology / School of Art, Design, and Art History:
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****Designing for a sustainable campus
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****Fashion Think-A-Thon
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**The theme of these thinker-mixers/hack-a-thons would vary each time and would touch on topics that are up-to-date with current events to help attract students from all colleges within JMU. This, in turn, would help continuity of participation and the dismantlement of silos.
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**Gathering participant information gives us a more defined target audience to project some marketing efforts towards.
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**Approaching these events with hopes of there being multi-disciplinary teams does not expedite the view that these are hack-a-thons or "techie" events. &nbsp;This merely generates exploratory and problem-solving experiences for any given area of study.
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==Tactic #2: Make the I&E Network Accessible to Students==
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*Description:&nbsp;Launch a heavily marketed website that establishes a network for students looking to collaborate and pursue a business or product idea. This JMU affiliated website would help spread awareness of funding opportunities, resources available on campus, upcoming I&E events, and clubs/groups.
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*Replicate a Landspace Canvas for I&E or create a landscape map to guide students through the process of finding relevant resources on campus for their prospective entrepreneurs.&nbsp;
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**Daniel Phonelath will spearhead this project.
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==Tactic #3: 100 Level Collaborative Course&nbsp;==
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*'''Course Description''': A 100 level course that will bring freshmen across a variety of majors together to help with the transition from high school to college. This course will utilize group discussions and short-term projects with teams made of diverse disciplines to foster collaborative and teamworking skills growth.&nbsp;
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*Emphases on leadership, creativity, and design thinking through 3 week-long projects.
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**<u>Leadership</u>: Through the use of the JMU Dux Center students will benchmark their leadership/teamworking skills style at the beginning of the course. Throughout the course, as they finish a 3-week project cycle, the group leader will receive 4-5 leadership reviews from their team members and each team member will receive reviews from their team members. At the end of the course, a student will have participated in 4 groups, lead one, received feedback and completed the leadership challenge workbook.
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**<u>Creativity</u>: During class students will practice creativity exercises, learn it's application and further their understanding through the text; "Creative Confidence" By David and Tom Kelly.&nbsp;
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**<u>Design Thinking:</u>&nbsp;The course will be project-based with the application of light design thinking. In 3 weeks students will have had to discover more about a problem they have to solve, ideate solutions, prototype solutions and select the best idea for presentations.
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**<u>Public Presentations</u>: At the end of a 3-week cycle each team will present their process, idea, and prototype in a public space such as TDU. Each student will be required to bring at least 2 guests (no repeats) to this public event.&nbsp;
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*Course Plan
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**Find the best way to register the course on MyMadison by Oct. 23, 2018&nbsp;
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**Continue interviewing professors who show interest in co-leading the course until Nov. 6, 2018
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**Meeting with all stakeholders and potential course leaders to create a plan of action-Nov.9-13, 2018
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'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #4: Internship Workshop</span></span>'''
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<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Description: Address pain points with internships and gauge interest for future workshops from first and second-year students.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This workshop’s purpose is to be an introduction to summer internships available for engineering students. Through this workshop participants will learn about what types of internships their peers have attended previously, the different types of internships available per discipline of engineering, and will participate in a discussion to gauge what content future workshops will cover.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have an open discussion with students about what it is like to be an intern and some advice for applying/ interviewing</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Topics to talk about with students:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tailoring your classes/ electives to score your target internship</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to make your interview stand out</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4bf21079-7fff-4dc3-fd48-1dd5af505786"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask students if they would be interested to have a career advisor come in from CAP services to teach them how to make resumes and cover letters</span></span></li>
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=<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #10</span>=
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Establish an entity on campus where any student with a creative idea can get the resources needed to become the entrepreneur they want to be, and test, launch, and grow their business.
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==<span style="font-size: large;">Tactic #1: MadX Labs</span>==
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*Description: Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed-stage startup accelerator. &nbsp;&nbsp;
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**MadX Labs will serve JMU’s most talented student founders, giving them the opportunity by leveraging the resources of a University and its potential contacts. We will give young entrepreneurs at JMU the opportunity to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, training, space, and funding they need in order to test, launch, and grow their business.
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**Students are encouraged to apply to MadX Labs accelerator two times a year in the beginning of each semester during "The Entrepreneurment Procurement". After 12 weeks, the program culminates in a Demo Day, where they will have the opportunity to pitch an invite an only audience of JMU investor
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**Agenda for planning:
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***Begin idea generation for funding - January 2018
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***Finalized Idea - February 20th, 2018
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***Generation of interest/Advertisement - May 2018/August 2018
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***Planned Event Time - September 10-14
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=<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #11</span>=
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Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship as well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers. This strategy will revolve around creating and marketing well-known opportunities and physical spaces for students to express their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration.&nbsp;
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==Tactic #1: Pop-Up Courses==
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*Description:&nbsp;Continue the spread of several “test courses” that can provide the administration with an example of how a pattern of entrepreneurial and innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to escalating forms of venture creation.
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**February 2018
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***Continue to host the "Pop-Up" classes in the JMU X-Labs maker space.
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***Work on gaining feedback through response forms and questionnaires.&nbsp;
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**April 2018
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***Expand Pop-Up courses to a large capacity for more involvement.
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***Increase the range of topics in the Pop-Up classes outside of typical STEM classes.
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**May 2018
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***Work on continuing Pop-Up classes outreach and schedule more Pop-Up classes for the Fall semester.
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==Tactic #2: Summer Program==
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*Description: Continue a four to five-week ideation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. This apply-for and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majors.
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*Timeline: 6-Week program led by the Center for Entrepreneurship at James Madison. This 'Accelerator' helps students start ventures and allow them to grow in the X-Labs space.
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==Tactic #3: Spread the Word==
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*Description: Create a medium-scale marketing campaign for the JMU X-Labs.&nbsp;
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*Tools: The following tools will be used to help spread the word of the Labs.
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**Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.
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**On-Campus Resources such as flyers, banners, and post-cards.
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*Timeline: It can start immediately in February 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.
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=Strategy #12=
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Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attract the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.<br />&nbsp;
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==Tactic #1: Develop a Hub==
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*Description:&nbsp;Develop, design, fundraise, and build a hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation that includes living space, maker spaces, open workspace, etc.
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**To prove a need for this hub, we plan to use the spaces that currently exist on and around campus to establish smaller-scale environments in which student thinkers and entrepreneurs can come to work on their projects and collaborate on ideas.
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**Through this beacon of entrepreneurship, offer a wide variety of programs and engagement opportunities for students to learn about and engage in all phases of the entrepreneurship and innovation process.
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***“Idea mixers” or “idea factory workshops” that are heavily marketed
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'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #2: Mentorship Program</span></span>'''
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<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Problem: There is a clear gap between underclassmen and upperclassmen engineers. It is very clear that after engineering 101, first-year students are not connected with upperclassmen ab VB resources on campus to help guide them and find their passions.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proposal: I think we can help bridge this gap by implementing an engineering mentorship program. This would be conducted by pairing first-year students with third-year students and second-year students with fourth-year students based on their specific interests. This would help to bridge a gap within our interdisciplinary engineering bbbprogram but B.B. b. &nbsp;B. B. Ben and bbbb and allow students to create relationships with older students, have guidance from someone who has been in their place, and to help them network!</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prototyping:</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feedback</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I told Dr. Callie Miller about this idea and she completely agreed that there is a gap here between underclassmen and upperclassmen. She told me that I would have to speak with Dr. Paterson, the department head, and Dr. Gipson who is in charge of a lot of the first-year students to get some feedback.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e48e3819-7fff-4e52-93b2-d3906ee93a9e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This idea started when I was a TA for a first-year class, ENGR 112, and many students approached me for advice and help with their first-year concerns and classes. They expressed gratitude for my help and said that it was nice to have someone older than them that has been through these struggles/classes and can give them some insight and advice. THIS WAS MY PROTOTYPING PHASE. I realized that after Engineering 101 these kids are on their own. If every student had an older mentor, they would feel more a part of a community and more likely to get involved on campus!</span></span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size: small;">Provide opportunities for students to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation with the greater local and regional community.</span></div>
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==Tactic #1: Regional Meet-up==
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*Description: The regional meet-up will bring UIF students from campuses within a 5-hour driving distance to James Madison University campus. Through various workshops, students will understand JMU’s campus and share their own experiences from their respective campuses. Current James Madison University UIF members will create a collaborative environment for students to share ideas with each other.&nbsp;
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==Tactic #2: Corporate Outreach/Integration Efforts==
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*Description: The goal is to connect corporate environments with higher education. We will approach this by connecting with well-known and widely respected corporate entities such as Google in order to organize "high-demand/interest" events and talks out of our ICE resources. All events should be informational, interactive and the hope is to connect students with corporate resources as they progress through their course-load and approach graduation.
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=<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #13</span>=
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Provide students with the opportunity to gain global competencies throughout a semester-long course
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'''<span style="font-size:large;">Tactic #1: Implement a Tech-Elective "How to Engineer Abroad"</span>'''
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*<span style="font-size: small;">This course will provide students with techniques for realizing and pursuing international engineering opportunities. These opportunities will include a series of collaborative mini-challenges, a project pitch, and a case study.</span>
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*<span style="font-size: small;">This course will include lectures on global issues, a collaborative project with an international university, exposure to international opportunities and learning to market your international experiences.&nbsp;</span>
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'''<span style="font-size: large;">Tactic #2: 8 Week Design Challenge with International University&nbsp;</span>'''
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*<font size="4"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Week 1:'''&nbsp;Getting to know your team and the design challenges</span></font>
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*<font size="4"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Week 2:&nbsp;'''Define problem statement, determine scope and stakeholders, set team expectations</span></font>
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*<font size="4"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Week 3:'''&nbsp;Discover phase of IDEO design process</span></font>
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*<font size="4"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Week 4:'''&nbsp;Ideate phase and conceptual design</span></font>
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*'''<span style="font-size: small;">Week 5:&nbsp;</span>'''<span style="font-size: small;">Alpha prototype</span>
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*<span style="font-size: small;">'''Week 6:&nbsp;'''Beta prototype</span>
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*<span style="font-size: small;">'''Week 7:&nbsp;'''Testing and refinement&nbsp;</span>
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*<span style="font-size: small;">'''Week 8:'''&nbsp;Project presentation</span>
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'''<span style="font-size: large;">Tactic #3: International Career Fair</span>'''
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*<span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;Provide students the opportunity to&nbsp;interact with international organizations</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Related Links</span>
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James%20Madison%20University James Madison University]
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Student_Priorities James Madison University Student Priorities]
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Innovative_Spaces James Madison University Innovation Spaces]
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=<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #14</span>=
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Provide students with the opportunity to gain sustainability through innovation and entrepreneurship dedicated to a competition-style program
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=Strategy #15=
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Create a space that invites and facilitates creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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===Tactic #1: Implementation of a Creative Corner===
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*Expand X-Labs into the rest of Lakeview Hall
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*Create discovery spaces where students can "play" and be innovative
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**Learn the fundamentals and tactics of being creative
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*Provide spaces where students can study and hangout to promote collaboration and community
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===Tactic #2: Annual Creative Innovation Conference===
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*Plan and execute an annual conference for JMU students, faculty, and staff
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*Hold workshops that teach creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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**Faculty guide students to create and develop ideas.
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*Provide opportunities for students to team build, collaborate, and meet new people.
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=== Tactic #3: Re-design and re-brand the current X-Labs ===
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=Strategy #16=
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Improve Ecosystem for minority students on JMU campus (by race, gender, ethnicity, level of degree, etc.).
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===Tactic #1: Develop a networking app for minorities (based on their interests languages, sports, free time activities, etc.)===
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===Tactic #2: Develop a chatbot that would address the most typical questions minority students have (resources on campus, community finding and building, etc.)===
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* Encourage non-STEM students to be innovative by re-designing the space to be more inviting to those who are unfamiliar.
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* Focus on re-branding in order to reach more students.
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* Provide a space with an emphasis on brainstorming and creativity.
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* Teaching creativity, and then teaching creative people how to execute their ideas.
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=<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Fellows</span>=
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[[Chris Ashley|Chris Ashley]]
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[[Jack O'Neill|Jack O'Neill]]
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[[Andrew Carlone|Andrew Carlone]]
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[[Timothy Moore|Timothy Moore]]
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[[Emily Platt|Emily Platt]]
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[[Mark Castro|Mark Castro]]
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Contents

Project Pitch Video

Strategy #1

Create two new majors for the University: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Tactic #1: Grant Writing, Start-Up, Interdisciplinary Classes

  • Description: Create academic opportunities for students to learn skills related to innovation and entrepreneurship that could then develop into a more formal program. 

Tactic #2: Establish contacts and a Network of interested parties within and outside of JMU

  • Description: We would need faculty and professors to facilitate classes, and reaching out to interested professors and faculty at JMU and in the surrounding Harrisonburg Community is a good way to create those connections. 

Tactic #3: Create an Interdisciplinary Group of Professors to Create a Rich Learning Environment

  • Description: Innovation and Entrepreneurship are interdisciplinary subjects, and therefore require knowledge from all departments on campus. 

Strategy #2

The X-Labs Files

Tactic #1: Maintain a Social and Engaging Learning Environment Despite Virtual Classes

  • Description: Support students and faculty during this extremely stressful time, and make the most of the opportunities and challenges presented by online learning. 

Tactic #2: Create Resources for Faculty to make their Teaching more Innovative

  • Description: We will create a compilation of resources and tutorials for these existing resources for professors to utilize in their classes to make them more effective and conducive to learning. 

Tactic #3: Give Faculty the Confidence to be Innovative

  • Description: By providing tutorials and easy-to-access resources for faculty, we will encourage faculty to be innovative in their teaching style for virtual learning, and when classes return to normal. 

Strategy #3

A program that partners students and external non-university associated businesses for experience with start ups, employment, and entrepreneurial resources.

Tactic #1: Establish Connections within the Community and Beyond Harrisonburg

  • Description: We will reach out to local businesses, corporations, as well as national and international businesses to partner with the university and university students. 

Tactic #2: Maintain and Grow Relationships with the Harrisonburg Community

  • Description: Partnerships between the university and local community will strengthen those relationship and encourage future collaboration. 

Strategy #4

Create an Entrepreneurship Department

Tactic #1: Centralize and Emphasize the Importance and Possibility of Entrepreneurship

  • Description: The creation of an Entrepreneurship Department will emphasize the significance of entrepreneurship as well as create a centralized locality for resources related to entrepreneurship. This will allow students to have greater access to funds and opportunities as well. 

Tactic #2: Give the Current Entrepreneurship Minor and potential Entrepreneurship and Innovation Majors a Basis

  • Description: Creating an Entrepreneurship Department will open the door to more resources for the Entrepreneurship Minor. 

Strategy #5

We recognize that the institutions and resources for innovation and entrepreneurship already exist at James Madison University and that we must strive to increase the utilization of these facilities. In addition, we will work to improve and update areas of the university that may not receive as much attention as some.


Tactic #1: Marketing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Survey Method

  • Description: Incentivize students to participate in a survey to learn more about Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs available on campus with free food. 
    • D-Hall Commons gets a lot of foot traffic every day making it an easy location to consider when implementing this survey. This is also a place that many organizations already utilize for similar ways of capturing students’ attention.
    • Festival Conference Center is the equivalent of commons, but on East Campus, allowing students who are not on the main campus to access the same information we are providing.
    • Showker Hall is where most of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs are since it is the business school, but since there is construction currently in that area, it could get a little hectic trying to find these I&E resources. Setting up a survey station there would also be beneficial in that aspect. 

Tactic #2: Funding for Programs All Over Campus That Have Innovators

  • Description: A new, interdisciplinary, course hosted by XLabs that focuses on teaching students successful business practices, agile team management, human-centered design, and much more. The class would ask for students to form into teams and progress through the design of a project by hitting bi-weekly deadlines and then giving a final pitch to a panel of judges that would then decide on whether or not they want to financially support the teams’ project/business.

Tactic #3: Updating and Innovating on Liberal Arts Curriculums

  • Description: Liberal arts majors, like history, writing, english, etc. have been largely left behind by the advances in higher education. 
    • Brainstorm possibilities: it is easy to dismiss the need to improve these courses because they have been taught the same way for so long. It might even be hard to imagine, for example, learning history by any other means than reading and lecturing. A wide, creative swath of ideas should be proposed to revamp these curriculums.
    • Demonstrate ideas: design a single lesson or a fraction of a class to show proof of concept. Test this plan on an objective, unbiased selection of students to determine its effectiveness.
    • Propose solutions: with these insights and data in mind, create a concise and clear plan and propose to one of the academic deans or a similarly influential figure in one of the liberal arts departments. 

Tactic #4: Centralization of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs around Campus

  • Description: An organization and summit dedicated to creating connections between various organizations on campus with interests in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 
    • This organization would be a board with liaisons from various clubs on campus that would serve as connections, and representatives, for each of these I&E organizations.
    • Additionally, an annual Innovation Summit would be held for faculty and students to discuss how to implement I&E in higher education as well as the opportunities present on campus. Events could include presentations, landscape canvases, inter-group projects, and more.

Tactic #5: Funding the Patenting Process for Students.

  • Description: An organization dedicated to assisting students with unique, innovative ideas in the process of getting their creations patented, trademarked, or etc., as well as providing funding for this costly, time-consuming process.
    • This program would be open to any student with a passion for creating but would work closely with STEM majors who sometimes require specialized creations to be made for their Jr/Sr Capstone project.

Strategy #6

Provide students with more innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities by exposing them to the Landscape Canvas & Wiki Pages. This would be executed by making information easily accessible and intuitive for students campus-wide.

Tactic #1: Interactive Panels and Tablets Across Campus

  • Description: Install fun to use tablets in areas on campus where foot traffic is heavy.
    • Dining Locations
    • Residence Halls
    • Libraries
    • Maker Spaces

Tactic #2: Information Posted on Student Websites

  • Description: Make information more available on student websites in a more accessible fashion.
    • MyMadison
    • JMU.org
    • Canvas

Tactic #3: Print Out Versions of Information

  • Description: Provide an easy to read flowchart of innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities on print outs to distribute to students.
    • House in Libraries
    • Have University Innovation Fellows and or University Faculty distribute print outs to interested students.

Tactic #4: Hold Seminar Targeted at Underclassmen

  • Description: Hold seminars open to all students walking through the different opportunities found in the Landscape Canvas.
    • Have representatives from courses, programs, and organizations speak about how they inspire innovation and entrepreneurship type thinking.
    • Give out small brochures describing the information on the landscape canvas.


Tactic #5: Mock Case Study

  • Connect case study to the local community surrounding James Madison University
  • Make it a competition where individuals compete against each other on teams

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    • Recognition of students through rewards, prizes, or opportunity to implement a project
    • Can lead to real projects and solutions that aren’t apart of the engineering curriculum

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      • The ability for students to gain experience that allows them to distinguishes themselves and gain valuable skills

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      • Make it open for all years (Freshman - Senior)

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        • Teams intermingled with students from all different years so knowledge and wisdom can be exchanged
        • Opportunity for students to showcase their problem-solving abilities

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        Strategy #7

        Bring international students to James Madison University for a 2-week summer program focused heavily on innovation and entrepreneurship.

        Tactic #1: Course Variety

        • Description: Provide courses in various fields of study to encourage a wider audience of students.
          • Examples:
            • Engineering
            • Business Start-Up
            • Rapid Prototyping

        Tactic #2: University Exposure

        • Description: Introduce students to campus and University life in the United States.
          • JMU Dining
          • Student Organizations
          • Residential Life
          • University Recreation
          • Speaking with Professors

        Tactic #3: Hackathon Connections

        • Description: Provide students with the opportunity to make connections through a hackathon that would take place during the summer school program.
          • Sponsors could incorporate prizes.
          • Company employees and James Madison faculty would serve as mentors during the innovative process.
          • Students can search for potential jobs or internship opportunities.
          • Participants are given the opportunity to engage in design thinking.


        Tactic 4: Programming Competition/Workshop

        • Description: 24-hour programming competition. Every level of programming experience you have, you are welcome to attend this competition. There will be various programming workshops taught during the competition to sharpen your skills. Companies will sponsor the event for prize money and recruiting opportunities. Judges will consist of CS, CIS, Engineering or any related discipline professors.
        • Takeaways:

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          • Get students more interested in programming at a low stakes level.
          • Give students the opportunity to talk with recruiters to get an idea of what careers involve programming.
          • Open for all years (Freshman - Seniors) and for all majors

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            • Programming is starting to become a valuable skill in many different professions, not limited to Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, etc.

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            Strategy #8

            Expand X-Labs space within Lakeview Hall and throughout campus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.

            Tactic #1:Convert Office Spaces

            • Description: Transforming the current offices in Lakeview Hall into an expanded collaborative work and maker space.
              • Remove non-innovative spaces in Lakeview Hall to provide more room for innovation and space for more technologies.

            Tactic #2: Implement Into JMU General Education Curriculum

            Create a new cluster of required classes for JMU students that will enhance the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.

            • Description: The entrepreneurial mindset is an important tool for all incoming and existing students as a form of engaged learning.

            Tactic #3: Satellite Maker Spaces

            • Description: Convert or improve current lab spaces around campus into X-Labs affiliated maker spaces.
              • Help to promote X-Labs names and encourage participation in innovative opportunities.
              • Further, establish X-Labs as an asset to the JMU ecosystem.

            Strategy #9

            Create Collisions amongst entrepreneurially minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

            Tactic #1: Theme Based Think-A-Thons

            • Description: Cultivate talent in theme-based hack-a-thon style events that correlate to the various colleges of academics, but appeal to the general population. We would want to create a brand that does not alienate or intimidate students that don’t necessarily think of this as “their” thing.
              • 1-2 times per month
              • 24hr Think-A-Thons
              • Various themes/prompts that represent the interests of all the colleges of academics
                • College of Education:
                  • Reinvent the classroom
                • College of Health and Behavioral Studies:
                  • Create low-cost products that meet the basic needs of the world's poorest people
                • Integrated Science and Technology / School of Art, Design, and Art History:
                  • Designing for a sustainable campus
                  • Fashion Think-A-Thon
              • The theme of these thinker-mixers/hack-a-thons would vary each time and would touch on topics that are up-to-date with current events to help attract students from all colleges within JMU. This, in turn, would help continuity of participation and the dismantlement of silos.
              • Gathering participant information gives us a more defined target audience to project some marketing efforts towards.
              • Approaching these events with hopes of there being multi-disciplinary teams does not expedite the view that these are hack-a-thons or "techie" events.  This merely generates exploratory and problem-solving experiences for any given area of study.

            Tactic #2: Make the I&E Network Accessible to Students

            • Description: Launch a heavily marketed website that establishes a network for students looking to collaborate and pursue a business or product idea. This JMU affiliated website would help spread awareness of funding opportunities, resources available on campus, upcoming I&E events, and clubs/groups.
            • Replicate a Landspace Canvas for I&E or create a landscape map to guide students through the process of finding relevant resources on campus for their prospective entrepreneurs. 
              • Daniel Phonelath will spearhead this project.

            Tactic #3: 100 Level Collaborative Course 

            • Course Description: A 100 level course that will bring freshmen across a variety of majors together to help with the transition from high school to college. This course will utilize group discussions and short-term projects with teams made of diverse disciplines to foster collaborative and teamworking skills growth. 
            • Emphases on leadership, creativity, and design thinking through 3 week-long projects.
              • Leadership: Through the use of the JMU Dux Center students will benchmark their leadership/teamworking skills style at the beginning of the course. Throughout the course, as they finish a 3-week project cycle, the group leader will receive 4-5 leadership reviews from their team members and each team member will receive reviews from their team members. At the end of the course, a student will have participated in 4 groups, lead one, received feedback and completed the leadership challenge workbook.
              • Creativity: During class students will practice creativity exercises, learn it's application and further their understanding through the text; "Creative Confidence" By David and Tom Kelly. 
              • Design Thinking: The course will be project-based with the application of light design thinking. In 3 weeks students will have had to discover more about a problem they have to solve, ideate solutions, prototype solutions and select the best idea for presentations.
              • Public Presentations: At the end of a 3-week cycle each team will present their process, idea, and prototype in a public space such as TDU. Each student will be required to bring at least 2 guests (no repeats) to this public event. 
            • Course Plan
              • Find the best way to register the course on MyMadison by Oct. 23, 2018 
              • Continue interviewing professors who show interest in co-leading the course until Nov. 6, 2018
              • Meeting with all stakeholders and potential course leaders to create a plan of action-Nov.9-13, 2018


            Tactic #4: Internship Workshop

            • Description: Address pain points with internships and gauge interest for future workshops from first and second-year students.
              • This workshop’s purpose is to be an introduction to summer internships available for engineering students. Through this workshop participants will learn about what types of internships their peers have attended previously, the different types of internships available per discipline of engineering, and will participate in a discussion to gauge what content future workshops will cover.
            • Have an open discussion with students about what it is like to be an intern and some advice for applying/ interviewing
            • Topics to talk about with students:
              • Tailoring your classes/ electives to score your target internship
              • How to make your interview stand out
              • Ask students if they would be interested to have a career advisor come in from CAP services to teach them how to make resumes and cover letters

            Strategy #10

            Establish an entity on campus where any student with a creative idea can get the resources needed to become the entrepreneur they want to be, and test, launch, and grow their business.

            Tactic #1: MadX Labs

            • Description: Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed-stage startup accelerator.   
              • MadX Labs will serve JMU’s most talented student founders, giving them the opportunity by leveraging the resources of a University and its potential contacts. We will give young entrepreneurs at JMU the opportunity to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, training, space, and funding they need in order to test, launch, and grow their business.
              • Students are encouraged to apply to MadX Labs accelerator two times a year in the beginning of each semester during "The Entrepreneurment Procurement". After 12 weeks, the program culminates in a Demo Day, where they will have the opportunity to pitch an invite an only audience of JMU investor
              • Agenda for planning:
                • Begin idea generation for funding - January 2018
                • Finalized Idea - February 20th, 2018
                • Generation of interest/Advertisement - May 2018/August 2018
                • Planned Event Time - September 10-14

            Strategy #11

            Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship as well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers. This strategy will revolve around creating and marketing well-known opportunities and physical spaces for students to express their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration. 

            Tactic #1: Pop-Up Courses

            • Description: Continue the spread of several “test courses” that can provide the administration with an example of how a pattern of entrepreneurial and innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to escalating forms of venture creation.
              • February 2018
                • Continue to host the "Pop-Up" classes in the JMU X-Labs maker space.
                • Work on gaining feedback through response forms and questionnaires. 
              • April 2018
                • Expand Pop-Up courses to a large capacity for more involvement.
                • Increase the range of topics in the Pop-Up classes outside of typical STEM classes.
              • May 2018
                • Work on continuing Pop-Up classes outreach and schedule more Pop-Up classes for the Fall semester.

            Tactic #2: Summer Program

            • Description: Continue a four to five-week ideation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. This apply-for and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majors.
            • Timeline: 6-Week program led by the Center for Entrepreneurship at James Madison. This 'Accelerator' helps students start ventures and allow them to grow in the X-Labs space.

            Tactic #3: Spread the Word

            • Description: Create a medium-scale marketing campaign for the JMU X-Labs. 
            • Tools: The following tools will be used to help spread the word of the Labs.
              • Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.
              • On-Campus Resources such as flyers, banners, and post-cards.
            • Timeline: It can start immediately in February 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.

            Strategy #12

            Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attract the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.
             

            Tactic #1: Develop a Hub

            • Description: Develop, design, fundraise, and build a hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation that includes living space, maker spaces, open workspace, etc.
              • To prove a need for this hub, we plan to use the spaces that currently exist on and around campus to establish smaller-scale environments in which student thinkers and entrepreneurs can come to work on their projects and collaborate on ideas.
              • Through this beacon of entrepreneurship, offer a wide variety of programs and engagement opportunities for students to learn about and engage in all phases of the entrepreneurship and innovation process.
                • “Idea mixers” or “idea factory workshops” that are heavily marketed


            Tactic #2: Mentorship Program

            • Problem: There is a clear gap between underclassmen and upperclassmen engineers. It is very clear that after engineering 101, first-year students are not connected with upperclassmen ab VB resources on campus to help guide them and find their passions.
            • Proposal: I think we can help bridge this gap by implementing an engineering mentorship program. This would be conducted by pairing first-year students with third-year students and second-year students with fourth-year students based on their specific interests. This would help to bridge a gap within our interdisciplinary engineering bbbprogram but B.B. b.  B. B. Ben and bbbb and allow students to create relationships with older students, have guidance from someone who has been in their place, and to help them network!
            • Prototyping:
            • Feedback
              • I told Dr. Callie Miller about this idea and she completely agreed that there is a gap here between underclassmen and upperclassmen. She told me that I would have to speak with Dr. Paterson, the department head, and Dr. Gipson who is in charge of a lot of the first-year students to get some feedback.
              • This idea started when I was a TA for a first-year class, ENGR 112, and many students approached me for advice and help with their first-year concerns and classes. They expressed gratitude for my help and said that it was nice to have someone older than them that has been through these struggles/classes and can give them some insight and advice. THIS WAS MY PROTOTYPING PHASE. I realized that after Engineering 101 these kids are on their own. If every student had an older mentor, they would feel more a part of a community and more likely to get involved on campus!

            Strategy #9

            Provide opportunities for students to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation with the greater local and regional community.

            Tactic #1: Regional Meet-up

            • Description: The regional meet-up will bring UIF students from campuses within a 5-hour driving distance to James Madison University campus. Through various workshops, students will understand JMU’s campus and share their own experiences from their respective campuses. Current James Madison University UIF members will create a collaborative environment for students to share ideas with each other. 

            Tactic #2: Corporate Outreach/Integration Efforts

            • Description: The goal is to connect corporate environments with higher education. We will approach this by connecting with well-known and widely respected corporate entities such as Google in order to organize "high-demand/interest" events and talks out of our ICE resources. All events should be informational, interactive and the hope is to connect students with corporate resources as they progress through their course-load and approach graduation.

            Strategy #13

            Provide students with the opportunity to gain global competencies throughout a semester-long course

            Tactic #1: Implement a Tech-Elective "How to Engineer Abroad"

            • This course will provide students with techniques for realizing and pursuing international engineering opportunities. These opportunities will include a series of collaborative mini-challenges, a project pitch, and a case study.
            • This course will include lectures on global issues, a collaborative project with an international university, exposure to international opportunities and learning to market your international experiences. 

            Tactic #2: 8 Week Design Challenge with International University 

            • Week 1: Getting to know your team and the design challenges
            • Week 2: Define problem statement, determine scope and stakeholders, set team expectations
            • Week 3: Discover phase of IDEO design process
            • Week 4: Ideate phase and conceptual design
            • Week 5: Alpha prototype
            • Week 6: Beta prototype
            • Week 7: Testing and refinement 
            • Week 8: Project presentation

            Tactic #3: International Career Fair

            •  Provide students the opportunity to interact with international organizations

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            Strategy #14

            Provide students with the opportunity to gain sustainability through innovation and entrepreneurship dedicated to a competition-style program

            Strategy #15

            Create a space that invites and facilitates creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

            Tactic #1: Implementation of a Creative Corner

            • Expand X-Labs into the rest of Lakeview Hall
            • Create discovery spaces where students can "play" and be innovative
              • Learn the fundamentals and tactics of being creative
            • Provide spaces where students can study and hangout to promote collaboration and community

            Tactic #2: Annual Creative Innovation Conference

            • Plan and execute an annual conference for JMU students, faculty, and staff
            • Hold workshops that teach creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
              • Faculty guide students to create and develop ideas.
            • Provide opportunities for students to team build, collaborate, and meet new people.

            Tactic #3: Re-design and re-brand the current X-Labs

            Strategy #16

            Improve Ecosystem for minority students on JMU campus (by race, gender, ethnicity, level of degree, etc.).

            Tactic #1: Develop a networking app for minorities (based on their interests languages, sports, free time activities, etc.)

            Tactic #2: Develop a chatbot that would address the most typical questions minority students have (resources on campus, community finding and building, etc.)

            • Encourage non-STEM students to be innovative by re-designing the space to be more inviting to those who are unfamiliar.
            • Focus on re-branding in order to reach more students.
            • Provide a space with an emphasis on brainstorming and creativity.
            • Teaching creativity, and then teaching creative people how to execute their ideas.

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