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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Next year the Pavlis Honors College will have a learning community for first year students in the College. This will be a great opportunity to test out some creative ways to incorporate creative thinking into residence hall life. Resident Assistants are currently required to create programs for their students to participate in and this would be an exceptional opportunity to test out some new ideas. Some of these programs that they do with their students make include some of the events such as the Make-a-thon or the 10X Thinking Workshop.</span></span>
== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy Two: Innovation and Brainstorming Course</span><br/span><br/span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Currently, first year engineering students can be found using their brainstorming and innovation skills in class. These skills are typically not used again until the student reaches their fourth or fifth year and are taking Senior Design or join an Enterprise Team. There are many instances where students have a hard time trying to think of ideas for projects because they are trying to focus on what they have learned from the books, but when they get out into the real world, the answer will not be in the back of the book.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Other: storage space for student teams, portable whiteboards, and power distribution throughout the space for students to plug in</span></span>
== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy Four: I&E Event Series</span><br/span><br/span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">After creating an amazing collaborative space on campus, there will be plenty of opportunities to host events focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. These events will focus on creating excitement about the new initiatives on campus and recruit motivated students for the new I&E section of the Pavlis Honors College. The Pathways team has been working on bringing in a few speakers, and the student programming board is already planning an event to be held in the space.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''10X Thinking Workshop''' - An opportunity for students to understand the steps to brainstorming and prototyping an idea. One of these already happened on campus in a small scale, but the hope is to have more in order to reach more students. </span></span>
== <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy Five: StartupTech</span><br/span><br/span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">StartupTech is an Enterprise team that connects top student talent to student led startups. It utilizes the existing enterprise infrastructure to ensure student involvement by allowing students to work on a startup team as part of their required credits for graduation. Connecting engineering teams to students motivated by turning an idea into a business will help promote business development far more than it currently is at Michigan Tech.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">''<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Mentorshp & Collaboration Sub Project:</span>''</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A common theme we have heard is that students don’t know about the resources available to them- including the interests and experience of fellow students. In order to help connect students to each other and to faculty mentors for projects, an online database system has been proposed. This searchable database would allow entrepreneurial students and faculty to identify their needs for like-minded business partners, or with a background in certain skills. The idea is to encourage collaboration of students across various departments. All users would have the option and ability to provide as little or as much information about their skills as they’d like, and also be able to tag themselves as having experience with various methods and materials, such as 3D printing, electronics, or marketing strategy.</span></span></span>
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= <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:xx-large;">More about Michigan Tech</span></span> =
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">[http://www.mtu.edu/ Michigan Technological University] - Michigan Tech's website</span></span>