Information coming soon<span style="font-size:large;">'''<u>Our overview video link</u>'''</span> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkNxMLteg8g <u>'''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy #1 – Give Students greater ability to work on their projects, make prototypes, and get experience in I&E</span>'''</u> o <span style="font-size:medium;">Enable students to do the projects they want to do</span> § Give Students resources, and potentially funding to create real prototypes § Give projects that are somewhat more underway funding (in conjunction with/as an alternative to LaunchPad) o <span style="font-size:medium;">Create an Adafruit style business plan</span> § Website that allows people to upload their project designs open source and make profit with customers supporting creators § UM sponsored Adafruit projects o <span style="font-size:medium;">Partner with the medical campus design organization, Innovaid</span> § Medical students with ideas that address drawbacks in medicine give these ideas to us, and we form design teams to work on them § This will be a full collaboration with us, providing UM undergrads with ideas that our club will sponsor to make a reality <u>'''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy #2 - Bring together different departments and schools to share resources in a centralized / several decentralized Maker Space(s)</span>'''</u> <span style="font-size:medium;">- Improve management of existing machinery and facilities, and have them more accesible for all students</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">- Create a shared space for students of all disciplines, so that the department boundaries aren’t as prevalent</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">- Full-fledged student-run Maker Space</span> o <span style="font-size:medium;">Student Autonomy</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">o </span> UPrint style management of 3-D printers, which allow students to print a CAD file from anywhere with internet, and pick it up at their convenience</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">o</span> Chemistry/biology equipment available to any students who have interesting ideas for research in a science field with high barrier to entry</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">o </span> Enables innovation and aids in the realization of all aspects of this organization</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">o</span> There is potential pushback from Johnson & Johnson Maker Space</span> § Students don’t have autonomy § Engineers that are unaffiliated with UM (UM is giving them free office/lab space) § May become like existing UM machine shop, science labs in that it isn’t accessible to students o Because of the above point, we may make a new Maker Space separate from the College of Engineering, so that we can avoid these pitfalls. <u>'''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy #3 – Have a D-School style curriculum and/or Design-Thinking Workshops</span>'''</u> o <span style="font-size:medium;">Build confidence/creativity skills through practice and demonstrations</span> o <span style="font-size:medium;">Give practical know-how in design and prototyping</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">o</span> Make design teams to work on already made projects</span> o<span style="font-size:medium;"> Have speakers from local industry come and talk about their experience and do Q&As</span> <u>'''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy #4 – Partner with Miami area companies for project sponsorship</span>'''</u> o <span style="font-size:medium;">Angel investors give seed funds to their favorite projects, perhaps even have competitions for the purposes of deciding who gets funding</span> o <span style="font-size:medium;">Shark-Tank style pitch session to get seed funding from businesses or investment groups</span>
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