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*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Description - We are hoping that the creative space will be our Design Space, "Makery," Maker Space, etc., where students can come and design their new ideas. We want this to be our Google Garage, if you will. This fabrication lab will have a 3D printer, all the office supplies imaginable, tinkering spaces, and tools.</span></span>

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**<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d7e36521-2f3b-95ce-fe1a-679361db32e5"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First workshop - August 2014</span></span></span></span>

**<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d7e36521-2f3b-b42e-9662-fe44ae7a041a"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First OU hire by IBM Design - December 2014</span></span></span></span>

*<span style="font-size:medium;">Description - We are hoping to bring Design for America to our campus to increase innovation and entrepreneurship in the design sphere. We are hoping that this will encourage more students in the design and arts and sciences sphere to engage in entrepreneurship. Design for America will open their applications to more campuses this Fall and OU will apply.</span>

== <span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">Strategy #2: How to Train Thinkers</span> ==

*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">Description - In our time spent at Stanford, many of the professors described the classes they taught as creativity courses where crazy brainstorming and rapid prototyping is a key portion of the class. At OU, we have very little of this. Almost all classes, even in the Visual Communications department, are focused on traditional lecture classes. One of our main goals is to promote this creative thinking through working with professors to offer a creative thinking course similar to the one Tina Seelig teaches. This can initially be something that is offered to just a few students and once the benefits are seen, and it is shown that students enjoy using their hands to prototype with PlayDoh and other materials during class, we will look into expanding to offer more classes.</span></span>

**<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other majors required to take course in creative thinking - Fall 2016</span></span>

*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Description - There are few ideas that span every major at a major university, but one that is absolutely true for each is the fact that a student learns more by doing rather than listening. Universities like Stanford have begun to implement this with the d.school being open to all majors, but OU is slow in this area. If we want students to be as well-prepared as possible when graduating, we need to get the students doing projects that have real-world impacts and allow the students to get hands-on experience. To do this, we can partner with local businesses and work directly with them to develop projects that a small team of students can work on.</span></span></span>

**<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d7e36521-2f40-098a-ceda-285ade7ff56c"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Integrate into class - Spring 2015</span></span></span></span>

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