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= Create an Innovation Club =
The Innovation Club, also known as X.U.CREATE, is an interdisciplinary organization that intends to begin an initiative on campus that promotes creativity and design among students of all majors. The club plans to be launched in Fall 2014 and several students that are committed to being on the executive board have already started planning out the vision of this interest group. That vision is to truly bring about the imagination that all students embraced as children but has been lost through the journey of our young adulthood. There is great power in the potential of imagination and creativity that can change the world and every college student should be a part of that. The goal is to give students an environment where they are free to think big and outside of the classroom about societal/global problems they are passionate about.
From there students can make low prototypes and design ways to solve those problems and for those who are committed to furthering their idea, they will have access to resources from Enactus in the Entrepreneurship Institute to pitch their ideas to investors. Local guest speakers will be invited monthly to talk to students about their own venture journeys and passions. Innovation challenges will also take place once a month with main objects as simple as a spoon or shoe and students will be given crafty materials to design prototypes to get them thinking outside of the box with a reward of a cash prize. The club can meet once a week and discuss problems and work in teams to brainstorm ways to solve them. This club will be an avenue to give the students resources such as internships, venture firm capital information, StartUp Weekend info, etc[[File:Create.jpg|thumb]]
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== '''STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1. Provide opportunity for student-led innovation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship experience. == '''
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''Goal 1: Introduce innovation and entrepreneurship concepts during the freshman year.
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Objectives: