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Strategy #5: Develop Student Experiential Resources
Tactic #1: Organize a Hackathon
While there was an Air Force Hackathon held locally in recent years, the University of Dayton has yet to sponsor a hackathon on their own campus. Hackathons are a great way to engage students in a fun and exciting approach to I&E. There is a great ammount of potential to bring students together from many different departments within the university in order to solve a common problem. In addition to fostering multidisciplinary collaborations, a hackathon has the potential to introduce a wide variety of students to innovation based activities.
Tactic #2: Get Students Involved with Design Competitions
Based on faculty input, one of the highly desired outcomes of the planned maker space is to foster multidisciplinary collaborations. One potential way to accomplish this is for the UIF cohort to organize design teams to compete in national design competitions as well as locally hosted competitions for University of Dayton students. Competition formats would range from poster presentations, pitching ideas, or rapid prototype development. In order for these events to be highly inclusive of students from all parts of the university, challenges will be selected which focus on innovative approaches to problems rather than technical ability. The previously mentioned hackathons will be able to build off of these competitions in order to quickly move ideas generated in the design competitions into an early prototype phase.
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