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Before we start to explain this topic, let’s introduce the fellow who helped start it all...

Meenu Singh began as a University Innovation Fellow in 2014 as a student of Civil Engineering and Philosophy at the[[File:ND72371.JPG|thumb~~|ND72371.JPG~~]] University of Maryland. As a fellow, she learned about innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. After her training, Meenu was able to apply these concepts to her own campus when she found that her peers were unable to make their own ideas come to fruition despite their education. By helping her peers, Meenu was able to find passion in innovation coaching, leading her to her current job today, working as an Innovation Specialist at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Following, you will find a how to guide on creating an innovation coaching program much like Meenu’s at the University of Maryland.

== Why do we need innovation coaching? ==

(Here’s their [http://innovation.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PIC-Role-Description-and-Application-1.pdf PIC application]!)

== ~~Section 4~~ Outcomes of the Project ==

~~Sample text~~Meenu came to the realization through the program that there were so many students that didn’t believe “entrepreneurship was for them” or that they had any agency of creating change. This appalled her and thus created a goal for the program to empower these students and give them the confidence and preparation they needed to realize their goals and aspirations. She found that many students shifted their mentalities after being involved in that some were able to realize their love for innovation and entrepreneurship. They wanted to ensure that students were the main thinkers and designers on projects, and through these hands on experiences, they could realize their true potentials. Through this program, Meenu has expressed witnessing students, through reading their written reflections, both accomplish their goals and feel this sense of empowerment they need as they learn in their individual ways. Meenu, to this day, continues to work for the Peer Innovation Coaching program and tells us that it continues to adapt as the program grows and they discover the different ways in which people learn best. She advises us all that in our own ventures as UIF trainees that we should definitely be open to listening and learning from each other. With this in mind, we as fellows will be able to make the best out of our experiences and take away beneficial ideas in order to better our own schools through learning from others. She finally reminds us all that peer coaching can be utilized through any project and every school should try it.<div> </div>

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