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<span style="font-size: 12px;">Jade Garrett is University Innovation Fellow at from George Mason University and is very excited to be a part of a great group of students who are trying to change the world around themSpring 2016. </span>
<span style="font-size: 12px;">Her passion for change is focused on Entreprenurship and Makerspaces. Access to tools and technology inspires innovation. She is currently starting up Mason's First Makerspace - </span>[http://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Www.facebook.com/GMUMIX&action=edit&redlink=1 MIX@Innovation Hall ]<span style="font-size: 12px;">(Mason Innovation eXchange) with an amazing interdisciplinary faculty panel that sees the importance of giving students access to tools and tech to help break down any barriers that would otherwise hold them back from creating inventions that can change the world. </span>
<span style="font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Name: Jade Garrett</span> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">School: Geroge Mason University</span> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Major and year : Bachelor's in Information Technology May 2015 & some Grad School</span> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">What you are currently doing : Former General Manager of TechShop in Crystal City, VA an International makerspace chain (before bankruptcy in Nov. 2017) now she is 3D printing her 2nd child (Due Summer 2018) and working at Tritec Associates as an applications engineer importing woodworking manufacturing machinery.</span> <font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact Information:</span></font> <font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></font><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Email Address - jade.west@gmail.com</span> <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phone: 703-626-9669 (Mobile)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Formerly : She started Mason's First Makerspace - </span>[http://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Www.facebook.com/GMUMIX&action=edit&redlink=1 MIX@Innovation Hall ]<span style="font-size: 12px;">(Mason Innovation eXchange) with an amazing interdisciplinary faculty panel that sees the importance of giving students access to tools and tech to help break down any barriers that would otherwise hold them back from creating inventions that can change the world. </span> She was recently chosen to be previously on the [http://business.gmu.edu/news/1090-mason-entrepreneurs-named-to-council-on-youth-entrepreneurship/ Virginia Governor's Council for Youth Entrepreneurship] along with David Miller Eliot Roth (Executive Director for the Center for Innovation UIF Fellow) and EntreprenurshipKeaton Wadinski (UIF Fellow) who she works with at Mason to inspire students to start a business and is honored to be one of the people chosen to promote change in education in Virginia.
She also has a - w[http://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Www.positivedeviancy.com&action=edit&redlink=1 ww.positivedeviancy.com] - where they create interactive hardware for children on the Autism Spectrum.