2021 Cohort
16
edits
Changes
= Project Pitch Video<br/> =
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= Overview =
<span style="font-size:large">Many of the student priorities at George Fox University are centered around the Maker Hub. We want this space to live up to its name as a "hub" of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus, and to ensure that it is being used to its fullest potential. We also want interdisciplenary students to be able to take advantage of this resourse, so that students with different talents can pool their resources and make something truely special.</span>
= Strategy #1: Enhancing Encourage I&E through emphasis on the problem solving process and Facilitating Student Access to Resources<br/> employability =
<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Description'''</span></span>
<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">The engineering staff envision the Maker Hub as a space for everyone in the University to use, not just engineers. Currently, all engineering students are exposed to resourses available to them in the Maker Hub through online and one evaluated on one trainings as part of their Freshman curriculumperformance with an A-F grading system. The staff current system encourages students to work until a certain level of performance is prepared attained rather than to offer these same opportunities learn and enjoy problem solving. We want students to students outside focus on the major, but those students lack both the knowledge problem solving process and critical thinking skills. These skills will create professionals that these resources exist see challenges as learning opportunities and a reason desire to learn about themexpand entrepreneurship and innovation.</span></span>
== Tactic #1<br/> ==
<span style="font-size:large">Hold a Maker Event open Bring in professional graders to all see how the work that students on campus, and have tables set up with the different tools and machines from the Maker Hub. At these tables there are doing would be sign hold up sheets to get access to the online FoxTale course for that specific machinein an industry setting. This would allow the will encourage students to aquire knowledge on think about improving skills that will be desirable in the tools and machines available workplace, while also networking students to them, professionals involved in entrepreneurship and a way to access theminnovation in industry.</span>
== Tactic #2<br/> ==
<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop a student organization focused around making. Give Encouraging concept based grading to shift students a problem focus from numbers to solve learning material and critical thinking. This will foster a small amount mindset of time continuous improvement, and will encourage students to do it and turn them looselearn from mistakes. Placing As a result, critical thinking skills that students under pressure have developed will encourage experimentation entrepreneurship and promote creativityinnovation.</span></span>
== Tactic #3<br/> ==
<span style="font-size:large">Host monthly events in the Maker Hub Implement an employability grade that coicide with an upcoming holiday or season where reflects students can make ' effort and predicts their performance in a specific item with instructionprofessional environment. Any and all students would be allowed This grade is designed to display to come employers how well a student demonstrates an innovative and learn how to use entrepreneurial mindset while in classes, as well shows that the university is investing in the different areas employability of students. The grade shows students application of the Maker Hubknowledge, and thus creates an emphasis on practicality rather than on innovation.</span>
= Strategy #2: Increase Awareness Encourage I&E through expansion of Current and Potential Resources<br/> innovative spaces=
'''<span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description</span></span>'''
<span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">There is a major gap between the departments at our school. There While there are many great resources available for students spaces on campus that encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, these spaces are either not being fully used well known or leveraged. We want to increase awareness across campus are not large enough for the growing number of students that will use the innovation-related classes, clubs, and events that are offered space as awareness is brought to studentsit.</span></span>
== <span style="font-size:x-large">Tactic #1</span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size: large;">Develop Increase the amount of students that use current innovation spaces through more awareness to already existing spaces. Having a "go-to" online resource to increase awareness greater number and offer information about innovation opportunities diversity of students in the same spaces will encourage different ideas and resources on campus. This would be a website that hosts links contribute to all entrepreneurship and innovation-related classes, clubs, and events across all disciplines and groups. </span>
== <span style="font-size:x-large">Tactic #2</span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size:large">Host informational events across majors within classes. For example: ask a professor from Expanding innovation spaces to include fishbowls or other study spaces that give students the College of Engineering freedom to speak "Dream Big" in an Entrepreneurship class creating new ideas. These spaces would be smaller and around different locations on campus. This would make students more confident in the College of Businessapproaching innovation spaces. </span>
== <span style="font-size:x-large">Tactic #3</span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size: large;">Develop an interdisciplinary club where students meet Reorganize current spaces to make them more efficient for guest speakers, socializingstudent success. Use spaces unfit for student use as storage spaces, or design challengesand transforming old storage spaces into usable innovation spaces.</span>
= Strategy #3: Make I&E More Practical, Accessible, and Applicable<br/> Developing innovation connections between departments on campus =
'''<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Description</span>'''
<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Many students on campus notice problems in the spaces the live and work, but don't know how to solve them or even that these problems are solvable. We believe that the key connecting students to developing innovative spaces would encourage an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset is hands-on experience. It's one of the core values of the engineering program, as evidenced by our Freshman engineering program. The Maker Hub containes all kinds of incredible equipment for making. All that is required is student engagement. At the moment many of the resources and foster a greater connection between different departments on campus are not available to the whole student body, something that we are dedicated to.</span></span>
== Tactic #1<br/> ==
<font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Bring in popular and exciting speakers Create a club that connects students with a desire to practice problem solving skills with problems that they could solve in other departments, as well as provide a TedTalk format platform where students can learn the necessary skills to generate movement in I&E at George Foxsolve these problems.</span></font>
== Tactic #2<br/> ==
<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Bringing resources from the Maker Hub outside of the Maker Hub to the quad or common areas where all students can participate in different crafts that teach them how to use the resources as well as what is availableBring</span></span>
== Tactic #3<br/> ==
<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Live, spontanious demonstrations of Maker Hub equipment for anyone interested, as well as group trainings for these equipments during these times.</span></span>
= Strategy #4: Develop a Proving Ground for New Ideas<br/> =
<span style="font-size:large">'''Description:'''</span>
<span style="font-size:large"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap">A major gap in our I&E ecosystem is that students lack the support necessary to launch new ideas. We may be able to develop those resources to demonstrate that an idea has merit beyond the walls of the University</span></span>
== Tactic #1 ==
<span style="font-size:large">Use off campus connections to bring in industry mentors from outside the university.</span>
== Tactic #2 ==
<span style="font-size:large">Provide students with the resources necessary to fail quickly and often, to test and refine their idea.</span>
= Related Links<br/> =
[[George Fox University|George Fox University]]