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<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6606fdbc-37ee-ddb0-17af-72af6303e914"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student innovation and entrepreneurship is a newly minted campus wide initiative with faculty, staff, and administrators. Within the campus various departments, organizations, and groups have emerged. From the departments, the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business hosts the New Venture Business Plan Competition where students are mentored for one semester weekend classes devoted to key areas of interest when pursuing a new venture. At the end of this competition the students walk away with a business plan and presentation that have been judged by industry experts and potential seed funding for their new venture. Additionally, the Business School hosts the Scheinfeld Entrepreneur Fund, which is another business plan competition and they provide seed capital for promising student startups. The other major initiative is the campus wide, multidisciplinary, collaborative Student Startup Challenge, that helps students formulate teams in hopes of developing a prototype and launching a business. This challenge also provides seed capital to budding student entrepreneurs. </span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6606fdbc-37ee-ddb0-17af-72af6303e914"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Design and Visual Communications majors through the Peck School of the Arts are building seniors in innovation and entrepreneurship thinking. The senior thesis course challenges students to think of design in a new fashion. The semester long course integrates other disciplines such as prototyping and business thinking. At the end of the semester students present to judges their business idea at the public Design Entrepreneurship Showcase. The following semester design students are challenged with social entrepreneurship issues in Milwaukee communities. Teams of students are required to work with community leaders and impact their community in a positive way. At the end of the course, a showcase is presented to the public. &nbsp;</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6606fdbc-37ee-ddb0-17af-72af6303e914"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond the business competitionand design courses, students are showcasing their involvement in entrepreneurship through three key student organizations: Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, American Marketing Association, and Student Entrepreneurship Startup Organization. Lastly, beyond the extracurricular activities students can always take courses focused on entrepreneurship such as Product Realization, Innovation and Commercialization, Entrepreneurship as well as many other courses.</span></span></span><p style="text-align: center;">[[File:UWM-startup logo-gray.png|thumb|UWM-startup logo-gray.png]]</p><p style="text-align: center;">[[File:UWM-new business venture glory 1.gif|UWM-new business venture glory 1.gif]]</p><p style="text-align: center;">{{#Widget:Youtube|id=RQFVlcGu6Rg}}</p><br/>'''Student Leadership Circle''': <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6606fdbc-37ef-b99a-3a43-a97ad01d7815"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UIF Spring 2015: &nbsp;Amin Mojtahedi ( </span>[mailto:mojtahe2@uwm.edu <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mojtahe2@uwm.edu</span>]<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(108, 139, 56); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; &nbsp;Nicole Green (</span>[mailto:ndgreen@uwm.edu <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ndgreen@uwm.edu</span>]<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(108, 139, 56); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">); </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;Garry jean-Pierre (</span>[mailto:jeanpie4@uwm.edu <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">jeanpie4@uwm.edu</span>]<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) ; David Gallegos (</span>[mailto:dg1@uwm.edu <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dg1@uwm.edu</span>]<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br/span>UIF: Alex Francis (President SESO, francis@uwm.edu); Rob Salamon (rob.a.salamon@gmail.com)<br/> AMA: Abby Williams (willi577@uwm.edu)<br/>CEO: Nick Anderson (President, ander644@uwm.edu)<br/>SESO: David Roehrich (Vice President, davidlr3@uwm.edu)<br/>SAE: Andrew Caron (President, ajcaron@uwm.edu)<br/>ASME: Alex Murray (President, ajmurray@uwm.edu)