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~~Under Construction!~~ <parsererror style="display:block; white-space: pre; border: 2px solid #c77; padding: 0 1em 0 1em; margin: 1em; background-color: #fdd; color: black">=== This page contains the following errors: ===<div style="font-family:monospace;font-size:12px">error on line 1 at column 9197: Opening and ending tag mismatch: table line 0 and colgroup </div>=== Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. ===</parsererror>What is your team name? University Innovation Council Please provide a description of your proposal. Despite the many great resources Georgia Tech currently has, the innovation and entrepreneurial movement, which is currently overtaking the nation, has been stalled on our campus due to lack of organization. Students are unsure and mostly unaware of the opportunities that they can utilize beyond big names resources such as the Invention Studio or the inVenture Competition. Organizations are struggling to grow, hold large events, or simply stay operational because of the lack of assisted communication and constant overlap. Professors are additionally wasting large amounts of time trying to connect to students due to a lack of protocol and standardized connection. Our program will exists to foster a passion and define a sustainability for innovative and entrepreneurial (I&E) among all members of the Georgia Tech community. The University Innovation Council will support three main areas: the student body, current campus organizations, and faculty/administration.  This will improve the community by: eliminating overlap, bringing students of all backgrounds and ages together, and encouraging administrative involvement. This will be done in the following ways.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Student Members of the Georgia Tech Community<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Provide access to a umbrella calendar of I&E events</li><li>Connect individual student interests to the I&E movement with others in the Georgia Tech community</li><li>Formulate methods to encourage innovation at Tech</li><li>Provide updates and other opportunities on a regular basis</li></ul></li><li>I&E Campus Organizations<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Host Forums</li><li>Connect I&E organizations</li><li>Provide consulting advice, support, and membership numbers</li><li>Provide a yearly I&E wheel featuring individual organizations</li></ul></li><li>Administration<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organisations, and the administration</li><li>Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship</li><li>Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting</li><li>Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in helping students develop ideas and turn them into a reality</li></ul></li></ul> Additionally, please refer to our Campus Landscape Map [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=]0 This illustrates all of the resource on Georgia Tech’s campus for undergraduates, graduates, organizations, and faculty through perceived, potential, applied, realized, reframing, and institutional resources. Through this map, we will be able to fully maximize student to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student interactions and improve it for the future based on our knowledge of the current environment. How will this idea improve Georgia Tech's student-faculty interaction? Through the University Innovation Council, student-faculty interaction will be facilitated in three main ways. 1. Students interested in getting involved in the I&E movement will be connect with a professor directly based on their idea, needs, and goals. This introduction will save valuable time for the student by removing the searching process. This will also save time for the professor by introduction them to a student who is serious about their work and eager to network. 2. Faculty will be able to directly interact and engage with movements on campus that organizations and students are working on. Instead of having to be directed by several groups of people, they will know all I&E related movements are being directed by the University Innovation Council hub. 3. Resource for both students and faculty will be maximized due to the lack of overlap. The process of starting and I&E movement will be able to be streamlined through our organization. How will this idea affect both undergraduate and graduate students? By creating a centralized hub, the University Innovation Council will be able to run all I&E movements that Georgia Tech is starting. Our organization is one that will exist for the betterment of the University; Not just one major, one club, or even one type of student. Many undergraduate students are being inspired to create projects and invent in their classes and many graduate students are being encouraged to turn their research and theses into entrepreneurial companies. This would really help graduate students network with undergraduates to easily allocate research positions, internships, and special projects as well as vise versa. It is a much more desirable way for them to see what students are passionate about instead of just going off of resumes and shallow connections. Again, by providing an overarching umbrella, students will be able to focus on their ideas and goals rather than finding the resources. The unique characteristic about I&E is that its not limited to undergraduate or graduate students.    How will this idea have a lasting impact? Explain how funding this idea now will impact Georgia Tech student-faculty interaction for years to come. By providing a council and infrastructure for I&E to operate under, new students will not have to worry about finding resources or connections (because they will already be provided). They will be able to just focus on the movement and their ideas, goals, and design processes. It will make the entrepreneurial experience less of a trial and error process and more success stories will come out of the Georgia Tech entrepreneurial landscape. In addition, it will create a foundation on campus for other I&E movements to be built off of. Through the University Innovation Council students and faculty will be able to grow I&E on campus together and facilitates movements going forward together. This means that they will become more reliant and trusting of each other. If both students and faculty are invested in the same issue and working together to make change, Georgia Tech's campus landscape in I&E will continue to grow going forward which will only perpetuate the success of the I&E campus. Please include a rough budget. Include all line items you believe will be necessary. Note that these line items must comply with SGA's Joint Finance Committee Policy. This budget is based off a $10,000 fund. 1. $500 - Organizing Umbrella Reaching Out 2. $2500 - Connect with Purpose 3. $2000 - I&E for Dummies 4. $5000 - GT Innovation Month All of these events would need to be heavily marketed and locations would need to be reserved for all of them (except 1) and food would need to be provided for events 2 and 4. Please include a rough implementation timeline for your proposal. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:-3pt;">{| style="border: none; border-collapse: collapse;"|}</div>

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