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<brspan id="docs-internal-guid-7e9de390-543e-ef50-53e4-5d65d8c21061"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GVSU Innovation Fellows realize that there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, GVSU downtown campus, and exclusive clubs and groups. Additionally, there are many opportunities to pitch business plans and look for funding. That being said, there are limited opportunities at Grand Valley to be introduced to design thinking outside of the classroom. There aren’t safe spaces to play around with new ideas, collaborate without pressure, or connect with people in different areas of study. The GVSU Honors College is bursting with potential. We hope to introduce better methods to inspire young, innovative Grand Valley students, across disciplines, to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, and make innovation a key aspect of campus culture. Afterwards, we want to develop a communication pipeline so that good ideas can be nurtured, grown, and developed through collaboration.~~OVERVIEW~~

= Opportunity Focus =<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Few opportunities for students to experience the design process outside of coursework.</li><li>The ~~GVSU innovation fellows realized that there are many great~~ I&E resources ~~for entrepreneurs~~ in ~~Grand Rapids, although they often don't have~~ the ~~inspiration or the information~~ Business College are not readily available to ~~start~~students of all departments. ~~The two strategies we propose to work on immediately focus on introducing better methods to inspire young, innovative~~ </li><li>Create a more inclusive environment where students ~~at Grand Valley to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset~~can collaborate and share ideas. ~~Afterwards~~</li><li>Lack of events, idea pitches, ~~we want to develop a communication pipeline so~~ or competitions that ~~good ideas can travel~~ encourage students to ~~a place they can be nurtured~~ pursue individual exploration and ~~grown into a solution~~experimentation with the design thinking process.~~&nbsp~~</li><li>Lack of campus support around increasing awareness and familiarity with innovation and design thinking.</li></ul>

~~PROJECT #1 - Mobile Maker Space [9 months+]~~

This project is an intro into a maker space. Due to the spread out nature of our campus, getting a single space would make it difficult to include everyone. Using a more mobile area would make it easier to engage both the downtown campus and the main campus 20 minutes away. Currently our main initiative is to get students and faculty behind the area, as the students will be the driving force behind an ever increasing maker space. Without student and faculty backing, the space wont ever create the environment of innovation and collaboration we're seeking. 

~~We've discussed the idea of partnering with local businesses to promote collaboration between students and professionals in the community, and will be looking into this further in the future.~~== Strategy One: Collaboration Space [12 months] ==

~~[https~~<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color:~~//docs~~transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to promote a collaborative environment where students feel comfortable sharing their ideas and giving feedback, we would like to pursue reinventing a current space to make it collaboration-focused. This can take a variety of formats.~~google~~Incorporating technology, providing prototyping materials, and utilizing previously unused space would be some easy ways to create a collaboration space within the Honors College.~~com/drawings/d/1PlqMd97pZhDLxHEkSo_tkOKxDZSdpFuuNxYEIwFUJmc/edit https://docs~~Our hope is that students will make this a common place to work on projects and hold meaningful discussion.~~google~~Because there are many underused spaces within this building, we feel like it has the potential to become a great working environment that can foster change within our community.~~com/drawings/d~~</~~1PlqMd97pZhDLxHEkSo_tkOKxDZSdpFuuNxYEIwFUJmc~~span></~~edit]~~span>

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~~[https~~== Strategy Two:Business and Entrepreneurship Collaboration [24 months]</~~/docs.google.com/drawings/d/15aTpI_-WQ_kjcch9RaBOkJF-piyyLDF_LxeQu1ejTJo/edit]~~span> ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GVSU has a new major as of 2017, the entrepreneurship major. This major is in the business college and therefore, like all business majors a Grand Valley, requires the business capstone class. In addition, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduate. We believe that for some of the senior projects it would be beneficial to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major to write business plans, run finances, etc to determine if the design project would make a viable business.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This would not only encourage collaboration between colleges but would also give students a sense of how products are designed in the real world. This would also introduce business concepts to the engineering students and technology to the business students.

~~PROJECT #2~~ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If we see success in this program, possibly utilizing a style similar to the Purdue EPICS program, it can be expanded to include other colleges and majors.

The goal of this project is to get students inspired to create and innovate. We hope to host a TEDx talk at Grand Valley and try to focus on the innovative ideas in the community and state that have made large impacts. If we cannot get licensing for a TEDx talk we would host our own version of TEDx to get students inspired with the focus on local celebrities, investors, entrepreneurs, and resources.

We recognize that inspiration is a key component to having student innovation at a university; currently there are a good amount of resources for entrepreneurs but they are not known to any students outside of the business school. In order to have successful innovative ideas come from our University, students from all disciplines need to come together on projects to highlight a variety of talents. By providing a resource of inspiration to all majors and promiting this even campus wide we believe we can reach many students and inspire them to start creating together.&nbsp== Strategy Three: EDU Share Night (8-20 Weeks] ==

~~Various businesses in the Grand Rapids area~~ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are ~~interested in doing a monthly version~~ eight separate colleges at GVSU, and there is very little collaboration between them. In hopes of ~~this~~gathering people from all majors and fields, if we ~~partner with them~~ believe it ~~may bring in~~ would be a ~~wider audience and allow for more renowned speakers~~ good idea to ~~attend~~create an open event that crosses the traditional boundaries in pursuit of innovation.

~~[https~~<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:~~//docs~~pre-wrap;">EDU Share Night focuses on open access for all students. It provides a space and audience in which students, faculty, and staff can share their interests and passions.~~google~~The event would focus on presentations.~~com/drawings/d/1D6mBEnfS7rnFGB_w9FBcAI-nzLSJNzSF00meyV3E28Q/edit https://docs~~Whether fully formed, such as a formal paper, artistic piece, or speech, or only beginning, like a startup idea, novel concept, or scientific study hypothesis, all GVSU affiliates would be welcome to share, receive feedback, and connect with experts in their study area.~~google~~All of the colleges at Grand Valley specialize in a particular field, which would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with.~~com~~</~~drawings/d/1D6mBEnfS7rnFGB_w9FBcAI-nzLSJNzSF00meyV3E28Q~~span></~~edit]~~span>

~~[https~~<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align:~~//docs~~baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The biggest limitations of this idea are interest, and sustainment. Promotion would need to occur to gather student interest at each of the colleges. Due to the lack of visibility in the honors college, it would be essential to promote effectively.~~google~~A poor turnout for the first event would discourage attendees from returning should it be held again.~~com/drawings/d/1FdtBoPnnWprIj4h5wZOKuQeGRxYZtrlzedGVPzv_SM8/edit https://docs~~Secondly, sustainment of the collaborative process after the event will be difficult.~~google~~We are still developing a safe, useful option for event participants to stay in contact, stay involved, and continue to pursue their passions after the EDU Share Night.~~com/drawings/d~~</~~1FdtBoPnnWprIj4h5wZOKuQeGRxYZtrlzedGVPzv_SM8~~span></~~edit]~~span>

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== Strategy Four: “Help Wanted” Communication Board [6-9 months] ==

~~PROJECT #3~~ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While GVSU is home to many students who are working on interesting projects and developing new ideas, there is not a dedicated space for sharing takeaways from projects, or recruiting help from people with similar interests. To solve this problem, we would like to create a communication hub in Grand Valley’s Honors College. Similar to a ‘help wanted’ section in a newspaper, this hub would be a place for students to share about their current endeavors, and will act as a source of inspiration and connection for students across campus. We would like to have a physical hub for the board so it has a presence on campus, as well as a digital component so people could access the board from any location. The board would not only offer a space to ask for help, but would also allow for comments, allowing users to connect different ideas, ask questions, and provide overall advice and ~~Entrepreneurship Collaboration [24 months]~~feedback.

GVSU has a new major as of this year, the entrepreneurship major. This major is in the business college and therefore, like all business majors a Grand Valley, requires the busines capstone class. In addition, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduate. We believe that for some of the senior projects it would be benficial to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major to write business plans, run finaces, etc to determine if the design project would make a viable business. 

This would not only encourage collaboration between colleges but would also give students a sense of how products are designed in the real world. This would also introduce business concepts to the engineering students and technology to the business students.&nbsp== Strategy Five: Freshmen Check-In [8 months] ==

~~In addition~~<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Honors Living and Learning Center, ~~this could~~ it can be ~~run as an add on~~ very difficult for freshmen students to get connected to ~~PROJECT #1 once it gets going~~others and the community. ~~Since~~ By holding an event the ~~projects coming from the Idea Pipeline~~ night before winter semester classes, freshmen would ~~be for~~ have a chance to make more connections with each other in a ~~new product,~~ more relaxed setting. After having ~~business majors on~~ a ~~team for that~~ semester under their belts, they would be ~~quite beneficial~~ more comfortable and have more in ~~order~~ common with the people in their buildings. There is a potential to have food, icebreakers, and games to ~~determine if the product~~ give freshmen incentive to come. We would ~~be viable~~ also ask them to fill out a questionnaire; questions may include what they are enjoying about their classes, what they want to improve, and what they are already involved in on campus. This questionnaire would hopefully give us a better understanding of how to improve the ~~real world~~freshman experience.~~ ~~

~~If we see success in this program, possibly utilizing a style similar to the Purdue EPICS program, it can be expanded to include other colleges and majors.~~

~~[https~~== Strategy Six:Sequence Collaboration</~~/docs.google.com/drawings/d/1Umz-VVrzDUHHbUnY2Q_As4L8kaCyCM62VwI4YcfN8bU/edit]~~span> ==

~~[https~~<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color:~~//docs~~rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As stated before there are many opportunities within the Grand Valley community especially within the Honors Program.  But where it make up in opportunities there is also a disconnect between many of the students.  As many of them do not know the people around them and just live in their own world.  This is where the Sequence Collaboration or Syncquence would come into play.  In the program there are a select few classes named sequences which are usually taken during the freshman year.  The idea of this project would be to pair up the sequences having them compete over the span of a week working to solve a given problem that is assigned at the beginning.~~google~~ The goal for this project would be to have students get to know each other and make connections while they are learning about the innovation process as they work to solve the problem assigned.~~com/drawings/d/1sN_bnMv58g0QlOdlq9CSEOzkZ8fXa4yrHw4ueAUHuRs/edit https://docs~~ At the end of the project we would host a large event where the students would select some group members to present their project to their fellow classmates and a few judges who would hand out prizes to the top three competitors.~~google~~ Hopefully in the end it would be able to fulfill the desired goals that were stated before and with the feedback that has been received so far about the program it looks like completing the goals will not be an issue.~~com/drawings/d~~ </~~1sN_bnMv58g0QlOdlq9CSEOzkZ8fXa4yrHw4ueAUHuRs~~span></~~edit]~~span>

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== Completed Projects ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEDxGVSU

~~PROJECT #4~~ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On February 24 ~~months]~~, 2017, GVSU hosted their first TEDx event themed “The Blueprints between X and Why.” A limited amount of tickets were available for purchase, with the event also being live-streamed in the library. The second TEDxGVSU event is scheduled for March 16, 2018 with the title “Shape.”

~~There are 8 seperate colleges at GVSU~~<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, ~~but there is very little ollaboration between the seperate majors~~102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://www. ~~In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create club or meeting group that crosses the college boundaries to pursue innovation~~facebook. All of the colleges at Grand Valley specialize in a particular field, which would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project withcom/TEDxGVSU/ https://www. ~~With such a diverse group of students, many different ideas would be feasible~~facebook.com/TEDxGVSU/]

We have several contacts at a few of the schools, however, more research and networking would need to be done (possibly between existing clubs on campuses) to gather student interest at each of the colleges. This club would be able to tackle problems both on and off campus, work to create student run products, and create an environement of innovation and entrepeneurship on campus.

There are several places in Grand Rapids that exist to help entrepreneurs and to bring entrepreneurship to West Michigan and we believe they would be more than willing to host or even sponsor a group like this. There are also many issues on campus that seem to lack multi-disciplinary involvement or are being tackled at a slow pace, and with a diverse group there would be many opportunities for collaboration.

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~~PROJECT #5 - Hackathon/"Hacking" for non-hackers~~ [~~6-9 months~~[Madalyn Slubowski|Madalyn_Slubowski]]

~~At GVSU, we believe the pipeline to developing a strong entrepreneurship and innovation community is bottlenecked at the discovery phase. ~~[[Haley Jennings|Haley_Jennings]]

Observations and conversations around campus have eluded to the interest in entrepreneurship within the student body. Faculty have been developing a curriculum with a focus on venture creation and interdisciplinary collaboration to scale with the interest in startups. Design thinking is becoming a buzzword around campus through multiple events that have tested and validated the student response to innovation programming. This new wave of interdisciplinary, creationary classes have garnered more interest than the new, albeit traditional, entrepreneurship classes housed within the business school.  In addition to classes testing the value proposition of entrepreneurship and design thinking, two competitions have emerged on campus promoting diverse teams to solve problems within society. The initial response has been a mix of students from diverse backgrounds. This signals that the entrepreneurial mindset is expanding to fields of study outside of business, engineering and computer science.  A hackathon for non-hackers is a smaller commitement than a semester-long class and less intimidating than the national/international competitions currently available. The event would be ideal for students to test the waters in a fun, low commitement way. The ideal outcome of the hackathon would be to ignite and build the community of entrepreneurs on campus.  With a stronger community dveloped, the growth of resources offered becomes justified by the demand. This cycle would help maintain momentum through semesters as the champions of entrepreneurship graduate.  [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QS0Tb4mLFEzWQadtjIyeLCn29TU8mumVrXQAKhhiJ_s/edit#slide=id.gbd9d7faf9_0_0 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QS0Tb4mLFEzWQadtjIyeLCn29TU8mumVrXQAKhhiJ_s/edit#slide=id.gbd9d7faf9_0_0] ~~RELATED LINKS~~ [[~~Grand Valley State University~~Deangeschiere|~~Grand_Valley_State_University]~~Deangeschiere] ~~[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is~~]

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