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<div>The solution identified through Lean customer interviews involves creating an application to replace the existing “#jewellplc” Twitter feed TV that would include additional content feeds, particularly calendar/event feeds for organizations. On a TV, the application would scroll through content and change feeds from Twitter to Instagram to Campus Events. The same framework that has been used to prototype this project can be used to develop mobile applications, and could lead to an iPad version of the project complete with push notifications of new events.</div><div><br/></div><div>One key consideration is how this project can help advance innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Primarily, this project aims to increase '''collision frequency'''. This is a key predictive metric for innovation and the exchange of ideas. By catalyzing a broader campus involvement, the culture of William Jewell College becomes a better environment for sharing ideas. As a liberal arts institution, William Jewell has a diverse group of interdisciplinary thinkers, makers, and researchers. We aim to improve our “return on collisions,” as Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh phrases it in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kaAVbf-I7w his talk about the Downtown Project in Las Vegas], embracing three core elements: Collision, Co-learning, and Connectedness. These are crucial for entrepreneurial mindsets and creative thinking to flourish.</div><div><br/></div><div>Another way that this can help our campus entrepreneurs is through establishing policies that would allow not only student organizations and staff to utilize the board, but also student entrepreneurs seeking to promote their ventures. By having an established channel, the awareness of entrepreneurship at Jewell will help normalize the idea that students are capable of designing and running a startup, combatting the currently risk-averse nature of the student body.</div><div><br/></div><div>As for any communications channel, it is important that the spirit of William Jewell College is conveyed as a part of our message. Our commitments to academic excellence, experiential learning, and service would be furthered by connecting students to resources such as the Academic Achievement Center, Office of Global Studies, and Center for Justice and Sustainability. This helps these infrastructural elements of William Jewell get closer to students’ everyday lives.</div><div><br/></div>
== Campus Data ==
<div>In the development of this project, many streams of data will be consumed and placed into the application. One side effect of this process is that the data feeds could be made available to students. Innovation benefits from an open campus data policy, adhering to ideas such as those stated by [http://campusdata.org/ the Campus Data initiative]. By bringing this sort of openness to the “JewellVerse” program, student makers and innovators would have the opportunity to do civic-hacking-style projects and improve their campus community.</div><div><br/></div>= Priority 2: Leveraging Research Internships & Industry Mentorship =
= Priority 23: Developing Innovative Curricular Endeavors = = Priority 3: Outreach & Networking =
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William Jewell College Students and Faculty have had difficulty starting large-scale projects with longevity and a diverse set of smaller interdisciplinary avenues/projects due to the lack of student and faculty body support. Students face barriers of hard-to-inspire colleagues and professors that have begun accepting the status quo. Students, Faculty, and staff have succumbed to excessive risk aversion. Facilitating the creation of large scale projects that utilize the resources of the local community and the forged relationships between students and faculty will invigorate the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and results of the College.
Once support has been mapped, the next goal is start the marketing process. This will be done through social media, and campus engagement at first. Then later we will have a launch day where funding will be used to incentivize attendance and a website for the initiative will also be launched on this launch day.
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= Priority 4: Interdisciplinary Communication =