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= <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large">University Innovation Council</span> =

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1">Despite the many great resources Georgia Tech currently has, the innovation and entrepreneurial movement, which is currently overtaking the nation, has been stalled on our campus due to lack of organization.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1">Students are unsure of, and mostly unaware of, the opportunities available to them beyond big-name resources such as [http://inventionstudio.gatech.edu/ the Invention Studio] or the [http://inventureprize.gatech.edu/ inVenture Prize] competition.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1">Organizations are struggling to grow, hold large events, or simply stay operational, because of a lack of assisted communication and constant overlap.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1">Professors are additionally wasting large amounts of time trying to connect with students, due to a lack of protocol and standardized connection.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1">Our program will exist to foster a passion and create sustainability for innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) among all members of the Georgia Tech community.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1">The University Innovation Council will support three main areas: the student body, current campus organizations, and faculty/administration. This will improve the community by: eliminating overlap, bringing students of all backgrounds and ages together, and encouraging administrative involvement. This will be done in the following ways:</span></span></span><ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>'''<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">For Student Members of the Georgia Tech Community</span></span></span></span></span>'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Provide access to an umbrella calendar of I&E events</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Connect individual student interests to the I&E movement with others in the Georgia Tech community</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Formulate methods to encourage innovation at Tech</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Provide updates and other opportunities on a regular basis</span></span></span></span></span></li></ul></li><li>'''<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">For I&E Campus Organizations</span></span></span></span></span>'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Host Forums</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Connect I&E organizations</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Provide consulting advice, support, and membership numbers</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Provide a yearly I&E wheel featuring individual organizations</span></span></span></span></span></li></ul></li><li>'''<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">For the Administration</span></span></span></span></span>'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organisations, and the administration</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in; help students develop ideas and turn them into a reality</span></span></span></span></span></li></ul></li></ol>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial'''For I&E Campus Organizations'''* Host Forums* Connect I&E organizations* Provide consulting advice,helveticasupport,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additionally, please refer to our [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclEand membership numbers* Provide a yearly I&usp=drive_web#gid=0 Campus Landscape Canvas] for both on-campus and off-campus resources, as well as local Atlanta-based resources.</span></span></span></span>E wheel featuring individual organizations

<span style="font-size'''For the Administration''' * Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organizations, and the administration* Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship* Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting* Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in; help students develop ideas and turn them into a reality  Additionally, please refer to our [https:medium"><span style//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp="docs-internal-guid-b8f4746e-3803-f30d-1416-ab1a1432bbbe"><span styledrive_web#gid="background0 Campus Landscape Canvas] for both on-color: transparent; verticalcampus and off-align: baseline; whitecampus resources, as well as local Atlanta-space: pre-wrap">based resources. This Campus Landscape Canvas illustrates all the resources on Georgia Tech’s campus for undergraduates, graduates, organizations, and faculty through perceived, potential, applied, realized, reframing, and institutional resources.</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium">Through this map, we are able to fully maximize student, faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student interactions and improve the map for the future, based on our knowledge of the current environment.</span>