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== Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among students and faculty ==

=== ~~EduStudio~~Innovation Playground === Program Pitch:The Innovation Playground is an outdoor space for exploration and creative recharge. Learning new tools and skills can be really daunting; Even when the tools and material are available it is difficult to find the time to learn without a specific project. This proposed playground gives students the space to experiment with hand tools without the expectation of an end product. Elements like a work bench, nail and graffiti wall, fort, swing and slide let visitors exercise their creativity and imaginations in a safe environment. The space is meant to be changeable so that visitors can add on or tear down as they wish, allowing the space morph over the course of the year and be reset at the start of the next. === [https://drive.google.com/a/smith.edu/file/d/16HSWsmTOVeCaacf_Bd76MpoVAucW-cWG/view?usp=sharing Prototype Feedback Video](x1.5 speed recommended) === === === === EduStudio ===

Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way. EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.

Program Pitch:The Innovation Library has an idea board that includes some thought-provoking questions such as “What’s on your mind?”, “What keeps you up at night?”, “What’s the one thing you want to change at Smith?” Students and faculty members can post sticky notes with their thoughts anytime. There is a special prompt on the idea board every other week, and the person who suggests the best answer, voted by the Smith community, will receive 5$ Campus Center/ Grecourt Bookshop gift card. The Innovation Library also has small maker-space and short coffee-break sessions with discussions / talks about I&E, design thinking and other issues on campus. There are posters and flyers around the library, and there are bookmarks that advertise I&E resources. The wordings in the bookmarks are tailored to academic fields so that students will respond better to those opportunities.

=== Innovation Playground ===

Program Pitch:The Innovation Playground is an outdoor space for exploration and creative recharge. Learning new tools and skills can be really daunting; Even when the tools and material are available it is difficult to find the time to learn without a specific project. This proposed playground gives students the space to experiment with hand tools without the expectation of an end product. Elements like a work bench, nail and graffiti wall, fort, swing and slide let visitors exercise their creativity and imaginations in a safe environment. The space is meant to be changeable so that visitors can add on or tear down as they wish, allowing the space morph over the course of the year and be reset at the start of the next.

[https://drive.google.com/a/smith.edu/file/d/16HSWsmTOVeCaacf_Bd76MpoVAucW-cWG/view?usp=sharing Prototype Feedback Video] (x1.5 speed recommended)

== Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction ==

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