Priorities:Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis Student Priorities

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Overview

Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis has very recently been developing its identity as a sight of innovation and entrepreneurship. Ideas have been in place for a while among students and faculty and now over the last semester, plans have started to take shape.

Strategy #1 Promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship to the general student body

Students at IUPUI are still largely unaware of the vision for IUPUI to become an innovation hub. Because of its proximity to so many business and large corporations, IUPUI has an amazing physical location to natural resources of Entrepreneurship as well as access to some crucially helpful individuals. However, there is no direct flow or outstanding knowledge of these resources; they are all hidden in the depths of the schools websites and commonly unknown to the student body. 

- Collect resource information and keep it organized

- Make connections with the faculty who are in charge of and aware of the opportunities in and outside of IUPUI

- Meet with the individuals to expand information

- Promote a plan for distributing information to students through workshops, lectures, etc. 

Strategy #2 Bring an innovation space to IUPUI

Students at IUPUI are still largely unaware of the future plans for the campus, but one of the soon to be accomplished goals is to create and utilize more maker spaces. These spaces are for student creativity and collaboration to come to life and to provide the necessary equipment for anything to happen.

-Receive training through IUF to establish a complete goal for the future space 

-Stay in contact with faculty who are already interested in helping to create this space

-Continue to reach out to more individual who would be interested in a makerspace