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<span style="font-size:small;">Trevor Jones is from Effinghaman Undergraduate student at Southern Iillinois University, Illinois, where he graduated high school in 2010Carbondale. In 2009 he received the "Best Producer" award at the AHA Film Festival for the PBS film "Zombilicious." In 2013 he attained his He currently holds an Associates Degree degree in Art at from Lakeland Community College in Mattoon, IL. He now resides in Carbondale, Illinois where he attends Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, currently and is pursuing his Bachelors in Industrial Design with a minor in Marketingat SIUC.</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">Throughout In his time first year at SIUC, he has held a position as a Graphic Designer for the Center of Teaching Excellence, and . He is now an Undergraduate Assistant in the Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing Lab (SAM Lab), operating and maintaining the hardware and software for 3D 3-D printers, laser cutting machines, and vinyl cutting machines. In his time working in the SAM Lab, he has discovered various ways that certain manufacturing methods in which the campus can be made to save costs and become more sustainable, and has begun simultaniously. This method involves the process recycling of initiating the research to begin the journey needed to make plastics for the campus a more sustainable system. He is also reuse in the process of cocommonly used 3-founding a design firm and another business revolved around biodegradable 3D D printing filamentprocesses used on campus.</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">One of Trevor's driving forces is to have a positive influence on the Earth's ecosystem. That is, to help mitigate or even reverse the damage that has occured due to modern industrialization. One very important factor in the plans that As a University Innovation Fellow, he has to do developed campus-wide strategies that break down the barriers between various school departments, promote collaboration between alternate fields of study, and merge Sustainability and Innovative and Entrepreneurial practices for research students on campus. The end goal of this collaborative research and action is to utilize nature's own forces as 3D print with mycelium, a healing agent to the world. Initiating mycorestoration to any aspect of the economic ecosystem will help to mitigate the harm caused by humanity's regular functionspotential bio-replacement for plastics.</span>
For more information on what Trevor is currently doingthese stragegies, go to the&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Southern_Illinois_University_Student_Priorities_-_Spring_2016 SIU Student Priorities]&nbsp;page. He is focusing on "Option #4."
<span style="font-size: small;">Feel If you would like to help in any way, feel free to contact him at <u><span style="color:#000000;">tnjones@siu.edu.</span></u></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetrevorjones Connect with Trevor on LinkedIn.]</span>
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