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The priority is to increase the knowledge of I&E on campus:

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On UDM’s campus, there is plenty of room to expand the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. Few students recognize I&E outside of designated classes, and getting the more of that student body to become more involved in I&E is necessary to further develop the ecosystem. There have been I&E groups that existed on campus but do not any longer, and the goal of this project is to expand upon what has been learned from those previous projects. The goal is to create a something that has a lasting and influential effect on the I&E ecosystem at UDM.

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The idea for this project, ultimately, is to create a new group on campus which has meetings with content that varies entirely with one thing in common: a focus in expanding the members’ knowledge of I&E. The meetings of this group can include anything from I&E workshops, lectures, and speakers, to tours, competitions, and just brainstorming discussions. Here’s the catch: there will be some form of point system and whichever student accumulates the most points by a certain time will be rewarded a Co-op. This is an incentive and the reasons why this is necessary is explained below.

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Here’s tactics of the project broken down:

<spanid="docs-internal-guid-b4310f6b-6238-d2a4-d10d-0dfd95589de2">Here’s components of the project broken down:

<li>Capturing students’ attention without intimidating them with the words Innovation and Entrepreneurship.</li>

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Groups with the words Innovation or Entrepreneurship scare some students away; they think “oh this is cool but I don’t think I want to open a business.” Or “I don’t think this will help me get a job.” Students at UDM are extremely career-focused and are driven to join groups because they know it looks good on a resume down the road. By rewording the name of the group, we don’t scare students away, and we can make the group look good on a resume too. This group should include anyone who wants to make change on campus, and won't be exclusively for engineering or business. We want the liberal arts as well as medical students. The next tactic is what catches the eye of those who are career driven.

<li>Provide an incentive to promote involvement and lasting commitment.</li>

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~~This~~ An incentive will make getting early attention easy. Since this is ~~a key part of the project: many~~ open to any major and won't have an intimidating name, students ~~have~~ will be far more likely to ~~co-op during summer semesters~~ go to ~~graduate and students are constantly on~~ those first meetings that form the base population of the ~~prowl for~~ group. Incentives can include anything from co-op positions ~~available~~to the chance to apply to be a UIFellow. ~~Using~~ Participating in the ~~point~~ group and earning "points" in a system~~, students~~ (will be explained below) will ~~compete for~~ be how the member win the coincentives. The incentives are a key part of the project. Earlier I&E groups on campus have existed and then eventually fizzled out. This group is created with the ~~end~~ intention of longevity. For the ~~semester. Of course~~group to last, ~~the leaders will~~ students have to WANT to be ~~in touch with~~ a part of the ~~co-op education office to make sure~~ group. The group cannot forced into existence by a faculty member or a ~~desireable co-op position~~ student who will ~~be rewarded~~eventually graduate. ~~This incentive~~ Students will ~~keep members interested~~ be participating, working towards earning one of the incentives, and ~~increase~~ they ways they earn points are through methods of developing their indivual knowledge of I&E or developing the ~~longevity~~ ecosystem on campus. Since students always come up with reasons why they are too busy to do the work of making change on campus, this offers a background motive for solving the ~~group~~problems they want to fix anyhow.

<li>Award points in different categories to make sure winners are well-rounded.</li>

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The point system works like this: ~~Arial~~Points are awarded for different reasons by administrators of the group. The points will be given, first of all, for attendance. This will make sure we won't ever have any empty meetings. Points will be awarded for participation; Students will be rewarded for being actively involved and productive with challenges, discussions, and group projects. This also gives students reasons for going on and completing projects on their own time. Points will be awarded for group upkeep: things like fundraising and marketing. This ensures increasing membership by rewarding students for bringing in new students or posting on social medias about joining or group activity. The point system also ensure well-rounded winners which is extremely important with prizes like a co-op position. A problem with a ~~similar~~ previously existing group was that students who won a design competition won a co-op job, but they proved to be “much less than satisfactory employees” and were poor representatives of UDM. With this new group, more than just design ability can be taken into account when awarding points. Students will be awarded more points at meetings for professionalism in addition to I&E qualities. The other aspect of this group as far producing well-rounded students is that improving students I&E knowledge and abilities will make them more impressive in the co-op positions. They will be great representative of UDM.~~~~

<li>Meetings will vary!</li>

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The meetings will be high energy and entertaining. They will expose students to new methods of thinking, to new people, and will open door on and off campus for them. In addition to learning about I&E themselves, the meetings will promote them developing their own ideas. We don't even have to focus on the terms "innovation" and "entreprenuership" because the activities will be instilling these ideas and qualities in a fun and interactive way. The goal is to have students intially join because of incentives, but have students continue to attend meetings because they learn quality material and are having fun at the same time (i.e. learning in a fun way much like the UIF Annual Meetups).

<li>Members’ passion will increase attendance and attention around campus.</li>

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Again, the point system gives the group some extra power: points could be awarded for promoting the group. Individual member may get more points by getting more people to come, or for posting something on social media, or for hanging a poster on campus. Because the meetings are fun as well as educational, it shouldn’t be too hard to convince members to join, and gain passion from members as they realize their own potential to make changes happen on campus.

<li>The group will not be entirely technical-based.</li>

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We want to get more than just the engineers involved: all students know there are lots of things that can be improved on campus and instead of just complaining about it, this group will provide the knowledge for students to make change happen themselves. This will focus on innovation, not just in design, but in looking at a situation and seeing where the holes are. The group will teach members how to creatively patch those holes with the resources they have available. This makes the group even more marketable, and spread I&E beyond those who walk through the doors of the engineering building.

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~~~~First Steps:

This project can be jump started with just little things like posters or social media posts asking students what they would improve about campus, and then how.

Written by [[~~Sarah_Mauser~~Sarah Mauser|Sarah Mauser]]

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