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<span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"></span>We have noticed that a lot of our programs on campus that encourage innovation and entrepreneurship assume that students already know about or are interested the topic. We want to invite students from a broader set of backgrounds to participate in I&E by creating programs geared towards educating students about the basics of what I&E is and how it connects to their own lives so that they might be more likely to participate in other existing programs in the future.

We envisioned setting up workshops in casual spaces all around campus (lounges in dorms, common spaces in academic buildings, the dining hall, etc.) where interested participants could easily meet and passers-by could get drawn in spontaneously. To add to the welcoming atmosphere, there might be snacks or other incentives to stop by and join in. There The<span style="font-size:small;">re might be literature (pamphlets or flyers) as a visual aid to the learning process, as well as some structured </span>topics to help get conversation flowing. The idea is to ease students into I&E by identifying problems they would like to solve and how design thinking could relate to that, but not necessarily asking them to start solving them in that setting. In this way the workshops are low-stakes and hopefully less intimidating to someone who doesn't identify themselves as already part of the I&E community.

'''<span id= "docs-internal-guid-bc7747e1-7fff-55f9-dbd0-40785232d20a"><spanRelated Linksspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #5.3 (Ray 2019): Increase Outreach</span></span>'''   <span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bc7747e1-7fff-55f9-dbd0-40785232d20a"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We believe that there are many students on campus who would benefit from learning about innovation and entrepreneurship. We want to increase our outreach and bring in students who are not already involved with innovation or entrepreneurship. Once these students are engaged and interested, they can connect more with the I&E resources that exist on campus.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to bring in these students, we will host TEDx talks on the theme of innovation. It would include speakers who have demonstrated significant innovation within their respective fields to talk about what innovation means to them, what kind of process it involves, why it matters, etc.&nbsp; We would like to display different applications of innovation principles so students can see where these principles are relevant to their own interests. Since Swarthmore students tend to be passionate about social issues, we chose the following speaker types that would appeal to that demographic: social entrepreneurs, activists, musicians/artists, and sustainability technologists. With this project we hope to engage a wide variety of students - especially students who are not already involved with I&E at Swarthmore.</span></span> <div><br/></div>= &lt;span&gt;Related Links&lt;/span&gt; =