Priorities:Elon University Student Priorities
2016 UIF Pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjhrGy_YII
2015 UIF Pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGugNRw0iQ0
Priority 1: Community Involvement with UIF
Purpose:
By involving smaller Elon communities, like the Oaks Residential Neighborhood, with the University Innovation Fellows, we can share a more detailed aspect of our mission on campus. This will also allow for sophomores, juniors, and seniors to become more familiar with innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities. Moreover, when communities have themes, such as Oak’s “Emerging Adulthood”, we can share how innovation ties into them.
Strategies:
Reach out to the Directors of smaller communities within Elon (example: residential communities).
Talk with students to see which communities would be the most interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Advertise these opportunities in all areas on campus.
Priority 2: Students Motivating Students in Innovation Learning
Purpose:
Inform the Elon community as a whole about innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities by allowing students to teach and motivate each other. By doing this, students can feed off each other and create more ideas than they could when learning on their own.
Strategies:
Allow for students to create their own plans for learning about innovation.
Reach out to teachers to understand the ways in which students learn best.
Evaluate which learning activities seem to help students grasp innovation concepts better than others.
Priority 3: UIF Collaboration with Maker Hub
Purpose:
To teach students on campus about the innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities on campus, while introducing them to the Maker Hub and all the resources it contains. To explore different innovative projects happening on campus and help students generate ideas in an environment that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship.
Strategies:
Prepare a list of speakers around campus that have completed an innovative project
Ask the Maker Hub to speak about the resources they have
Create a design space (“think space”) for students to collaborate and generate ideas for new innovative projects
Provide more awareness about the Maker Hub, the UIF program, the Doherty center, and the I&E program on campus
Priority 4: Burst the Bubble Coding Curriculum
Purpose: To teach coding to students of all majors without the pressure of a grade, show people what UIF is all about, and recruit other students who inspire change and want to make the campus a more innovative space. This gives people of all majors the opportunity to learn to code in a positive environment without the pressure of a grade.
Strategies:
Decide on the best coding software to teach
Strategize with the team to decide how to best go about creating a curriculum to teach people of all exposures how to code
Contact the computer science department
