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'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

'''Tactic #1: Creating a more family-friendly campus environment by the addition of drop-in daycares and mothers rooms '''

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students, it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs.

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

'''Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreneurial Mindset early on. '''

Freshmen are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the workload ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to

'''Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In'''

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air, it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will

One of the main problems facing first-year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates, we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first-year drop off'. Another very useful strategy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two initiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)

*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

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'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

'''Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. '''

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would bolster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions.

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

'''Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.'''

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Begin offering these courses

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'''Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.'''

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives on how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real-world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Begin offering the course

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'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez, and LaRissa Lawrie'''

'''Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses'''

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

== '''Strategy 4: Shocker Startup, : a ~~student organization~~ Student Organization to ~~promote entrepreneurship across~~ Promote Entrepreneurship Across the ~~campus~~ Campus and ~~community~~Community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

'''Tactic #1: Connect ICT'''

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Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

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The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living-learning community at Wichita State.<div> </div>Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 5: Develop ~~legal competency~~ Legal Competency and ~~security~~ Security for ~~designers~~ Designers and ~~creatives~~Creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by a survey.                                                                    *Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     *Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        *Offer the course.

Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       *Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             *Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.

Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               *Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         *Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            *Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 6: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

Connecting students with students or students with resources are the biggest problems with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like-minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long-term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience*implement it in other universities*create an app?*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

~~The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned~~[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

~~[http~~== '''Strategy 7:Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation'''</~~/thestartuphq.com/]~~span> ==

'''~~Strategy 7: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation~~Tactic #1 Unconference''' ==

'''~~Tactic #1 Unconference~~Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

~~'''Project Lead~~There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

~~There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group~~ Some of ~~individuals to support~~ the ~~mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of~~ key concepts behind the ~~individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an~~ unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.would be:

~~Some~~ *Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.*General areas of ~~the key~~ interest such as Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts ~~behind the unconference would be~~.*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.*General areas of interest such as Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge<br/~~sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.~~>'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

<~~br/~~span style="font-size:small;">'''~~Tactic #2~~Project Lead: ~~TEDx Events~~Saad Syed'''

~~'''Project Lead~~To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time, there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TEDx event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

~~To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time, there will always be resources available~~ Short-Term Tactics to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TEDx event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.Implement Strategy

~~Short~~*Interview students of all discipline to ~~Implement Strategy~~gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

*Interview students of all discipline Long-Term Tactics to ~~gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.~~*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.*Engage administration to help facilitate event.Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting the event each year.<br/span>~~Long~~*Develop a plan to ~~Implement Strategy~~host smaller similar inspiration events throughout the school year.

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting the event each year.

*Develop a plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout the school year.

== '''Strategy 8: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

'''~~Strategy 8~~Project Lead: ~~WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them~~Jocelyn Galicia''' ==

~~&nbsp~~WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small-scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occurring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

~~WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a~~ <span ~~of two days. There are four main components to the event~~style="font-size:small; a small-scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occurring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus. ">Short-Term Tactics: *Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. **Survey Link: [https:</~~/docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]~~*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.*Seek out sponsor support*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.*Sign up volunteers for the event*Create marketing materials*Plan out logistics and itineraryspan>

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this.

**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]

*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.

*Seek out sponsor support

*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event

*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders

*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.

*Sign up volunteers for the event

*Create marketing materials

*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long-Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year*Gather feedback from attendees to improve the event*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 9: Increasing ~~about~~ A''''''bout''''''the Plethora of I&E Resources on Campus''' ==

=== '''Tactic #1: Wu-Invent App''' ===

'''Project Lead: Kyle Kopecky and Will Valentine'''

A single app that brings together various silos of innovation and entrepreneurship across campus in one cohesive space. Attending classes on the "Innovation Campus" at WSU, students have the desire to work across disciplines to create and innovate their every day lives. However, most are not aware of the vast resources that are at their disposal. Wu-Invent is a single app that will bring together the resources from every department across campus including engineering, business, the library, and more to increase student awareness and subsequently increase involvement in I&E.

=== '''Tactic #2: Wu Shocks Innovation Nation: The Orientation Experience''' ===

'''Project Lead: Jessica Aldrich'''

As WSU promotes the current additions to the university as the "Innovation Campus," students deserve to be involved in innovation culture from the moment they step on campus. During the mandatory orientation, students would participate in Wu-Shocks Innovation Nation Design Experience. Students from every college are grouped together and tasked with helping Wu travel across campus, using all of the resources at their disposal along the way. After completion of the challenge, students would tour the campus and have the chance to use the resources first hand, tying their experience to the physical location of the resource.

== Strategy 10: Encouraging student involvement within I&E opportunities on campus ==

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