== Strategy Two: Innovation Showcase [3-4 months] ==
== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span stylefont face="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e032d2b7-7fff-dd0e-4e59-13077d5e995d"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design Start will be The Innovation Showcase is a new workshop as of January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, innovation workshop where students work program that would bring together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. These students will achieve this by following the Design Thinking Process to empathize, definefaculty, ideate, prototype, testcampus organizations, and validate their solutions with otherssmall businesses.</span></spanfont></span></span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many times, students relate entrepreneurship The Innovation Showcase would feature innovative projects and innovation to business majors. While this can be the casedesigns at popular places around campus, Design Start will be an opportunity to open these topics to everyone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, which is such as the start of a new semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arialcafeterias,helveticabookstore,sans-serif;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between universitiesand dorm buildings. This program will be open would encourage onlookers to students from many different colleges participate in design thinking and universities in the Grand Rapids area. This will allow for a melting pot of students to come innovation clubs and work together.</span></span></span></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arialevents, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Once this program has passed and proven as well as give innovators a chance to be successful, we will look into planning the event for the following yearshow off their projects.</span>
== Strategy Three: Start-Up Funding [6 months] ==