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== '''Strategy #1: Developing a Culture of Creativity''' ==
  
Priority 1: Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2021-2022)   
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== Tactic #1: Creativity Conference ==
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Description Overview: The creativity conference is a 1.5-2 day event that students will come to collaborate and develop their creative approach to problem-solving. As a physical location is feasible, this conference can also be held virtually and can be possible for students all across the world.
  
This priority focused on reaching out to high school students, community college students and Central Michigan University college students. Introducing students to Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The primary goals for the START Lab program, is to introduce entrepreneurship and innovation to high school students and community college students at college fairs interacting and interactive events. At these events, the goal is student engagement to give students an experience to develop a product or a business idea. Through a mini prototype lab in the lab students will have approximately 20 minutes in total to redesign an existing product using basic blueprint and skills and early stage prototyping the participants will have 5 minutes to draw a rough blueprint. Given 10 minutes to build a rough small scale prototype using materials such as: Cardboard and foam. Once the 10 minutes are up each participant group will present their concepts to the audience will receive feedback likes and dislikes of their designs. They will be given another 10 minutes to improve their design using feedback from the audience. After those 10 minutes are up the audience will vote on which idea, they like the most the winning team members will receive a gift card, all participants will receive a participation certificate via email. (The purpose of sending the certificate through emails is to gain contact information to send more information about the Entrepreneurship program and other programs that Central Michigan University offers.) Students will be given information about innovation challenge week to sign up or at Central Michigan University. The goal of this is to help increase enrollment at Central Michigan University.  
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Team Leader:  
  
Priority 2: Innovation Challenge Lab (2021-2022)  
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* Leslee Weible
  
Priority two consists of 5-day innovation challenge at Central Michigan University. This challenge will focus on introducing innovation and entrepreneurship to students who are trying to figure out what they want their major to be in college. This includes everything from high school junior and senior level students. And community college students looking at four-year institutions, along with Central Michigan University Freshman and Sophomores that have not decided on a major yet. Each day of the challenge will focus on a different step of developing a product or business idea. At the end of the innovation challenge there will be a competition with cash and scholarship prizes to winning participants.  
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Some solutions might be that there could be coverage on different institutional social media and tabling on campus. Along with this, there was an issue with the way that the event was conveyed. There has to be enough information to entice the students to participate but also give them information that would let them know what this new event is really about and explain what it means in more than a couple vague sentences.  
  
Additional Information: (2021-2022)  
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The creativity conference will be built off of the momentum of the series of consecutive creative jams that are hosted and implemented throughout the university.
  
Central Michigan University is in need a little push towards the communal adoption of I&E. To other areas on campus besides The Entrepreneurship Institute our goal is to expand innovation and entrepreneurship to other colleges on our campus. Allowing different colleges to interrelate with each other and build off each other's strengths. The Entrepreneurship department is hosting NVC (New Venture Competition) workshops for Central Michigan University students from different departments and the CMU Community to help further student's successes achieving to start their businesses and win prize from angel investors. The MEV program stands for Masters of Entrepreneurial Ventures turns big ideas into successful ventures, in the MEV program undergraduate & graduate students have the luxury of being able to receive both their undergraduate and graduate degree in four years depending on student's road map to graduate.  
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== '''Strategy #2: Creating a Centralized Digital Resource Center''' ==
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== Tactic #1: Social Media Account Content Delivery ==
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Description: The focus on the creation of an interactive resource center located within the cmich.edu website is the end goal for this strategy. To begin, we must start somewhere past various agile sprint cycles that must be developed to implement the website transformation... this is why, as we are meeting together with teams to edit cmich.edu, we will start with social media.  
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To begin with general resources, our base-case account will be built out of Instagram.
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Team Leader:
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* Jake Kapusansky
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With implementation of resources, our strategy is to develop the content in 3 stages: people, places, niches.
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# People first. Our first posts and stories will be featuring people, specifically agents of change on campus that other individuals can reach out to for resources and help.
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# Places next. To understand all of the physical locations between CMU's various contexts, we will implement each internal resource inside of our various buildings
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# The niche resources to include will be imperative as the collective student body begins to read between the lines for resource sharing and collaboration. (Ie., Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)  
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== Tactic #2: Geographic Information System Implementation between University Website and Communications ==
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''Geographic Information System''
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we have included our prototype for what the website resource would look like. Rather than approaching the typical CMU map from a drivers lens, we need to connect people to people.
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This is our prototype from social media account with the intention of being able to share information right away. Lastly, we will focus on scaling the idea from social to the website by collecting CMU resources over the next semester and working to collaborate with the web design team.
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== '''Strategy #3: Collaborate with Student-Led Initiatives to Implement Design Thinking Methodologies''' ==
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== Tactic #1: Creative Jam/ Design Thinking Pop-Up(s) ==
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Description: The Creative Jam is designed for students having a hard time with academic burn out. When you think of the last time you were unapologetically creative, I personally think of when I was a kid. This brought up the idea of having a creative jam tabling event.
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Team Leader: Rebecca Ridenour
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Students will be able to come up on their own terms and experience childhood creativity like a sensory lab, group madlibs, and reflection activities. An issue that was experienced through trying to market this idea was that flyers do not attract students to events and students feel like they need a free item for coming to events. There was also another issue with the lack of information on my flier and what the goals were of the event.
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The Creative Jam would be a great idea to get the interest of creativity embedded into students and make it, "if you participate you get entered to win a giftcard,” so the barriers to entry are as minimal as possible. The Creative Jam, based on input from our stakeholders has been pivoted to be a series of built up events, or "pop-ups" that will be very lean and easy to build over time.  
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Revision as of 01:56, 12 December 2022

Strategy #1: Developing a Culture of Creativity

Tactic #1: Creativity Conference

Creativity Conference.png

Description Overview: The creativity conference is a 1.5-2 day event that students will come to collaborate and develop their creative approach to problem-solving. As a physical location is feasible, this conference can also be held virtually and can be possible for students all across the world.

Team Leader:

  • Leslee Weible

Some solutions might be that there could be coverage on different institutional social media and tabling on campus. Along with this, there was an issue with the way that the event was conveyed. There has to be enough information to entice the students to participate but also give them information that would let them know what this new event is really about and explain what it means in more than a couple vague sentences.

The creativity conference will be built off of the momentum of the series of consecutive creative jams that are hosted and implemented throughout the university.

Strategy #2: Creating a Centralized Digital Resource Center

Tactic #1: Social Media Account Content Delivery

Description: The focus on the creation of an interactive resource center located within the cmich.edu website is the end goal for this strategy. To begin, we must start somewhere past various agile sprint cycles that must be developed to implement the website transformation... this is why, as we are meeting together with teams to edit cmich.edu, we will start with social media.

To begin with general resources, our base-case account will be built out of Instagram.

Team Leader:

  • Jake Kapusansky

With implementation of resources, our strategy is to develop the content in 3 stages: people, places, niches.

  1. People first. Our first posts and stories will be featuring people, specifically agents of change on campus that other individuals can reach out to for resources and help.
  2. Places next. To understand all of the physical locations between CMU's various contexts, we will implement each internal resource inside of our various buildings
  3. The niche resources to include will be imperative as the collective student body begins to read between the lines for resource sharing and collaboration. (Ie., Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)

Tactic #2: Geographic Information System Implementation between University Website and Communications

GIS.png

Geographic Information System

we have included our prototype for what the website resource would look like. Rather than approaching the typical CMU map from a drivers lens, we need to connect people to people.

This is our prototype from social media account with the intention of being able to share information right away. Lastly, we will focus on scaling the idea from social to the website by collecting CMU resources over the next semester and working to collaborate with the web design team.

Strategy #3: Collaborate with Student-Led Initiatives to Implement Design Thinking Methodologies

Tactic #1: Creative Jam/ Design Thinking Pop-Up(s)

Creative Jam.png

Description: The Creative Jam is designed for students having a hard time with academic burn out. When you think of the last time you were unapologetically creative, I personally think of when I was a kid. This brought up the idea of having a creative jam tabling event.

Team Leader: Rebecca Ridenour

Students will be able to come up on their own terms and experience childhood creativity like a sensory lab, group madlibs, and reflection activities. An issue that was experienced through trying to market this idea was that flyers do not attract students to events and students feel like they need a free item for coming to events. There was also another issue with the lack of information on my flier and what the goals were of the event.

The Creative Jam would be a great idea to get the interest of creativity embedded into students and make it, "if you participate you get entered to win a giftcard,” so the barriers to entry are as minimal as possible. The Creative Jam, based on input from our stakeholders has been pivoted to be a series of built up events, or "pop-ups" that will be very lean and easy to build over time.