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In addition to both student- and faculty-driven programs, Notre Dame has developed three unique spaces to foster entrepreneurship, innovation and design thinking. The first, housed in an Engineering building, is the Engingeer Design Deck, or N3D. This workspace allows for Engineering students to seek out resources and training and helps facilitate hand-on learning. Students can bring work from class, independent ventures, or simply big ideas. Second, the Notre Dame Hesburgh Library has developed the Center for Digital Scholarship. This recent addition employs state-of-the-art technologies to transform the way in which teaching, research, and scholarship are preformed and preserved. Finally, Debartolo Hall, a dedicated classroom building, has developed the Innovation Room in the basement. Several groups on campus - from administrative to learning center to building management - partnered together to develop this innovative, imaginative and active learning environment. Basing their designs off of similar rooms as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan, the room is intended to be as flexible as possible and to encourage active learning. 

Innovation at the University of Notre Dame begins with inspirational events that allow for the exchange of ideas on campus. The newly-launched TEDxUND event is one such platform for the Notre Dame community to start a dialogue about important topics such as microfinance, social media in the news, and volunteerism abroad. Resources such as the Center for Creative Computing and Residential Fellowships through the Institute for Advanced Study allow students to delve deeper into these issues.