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Students on campus have a lot of ideas flowing in their heads about innovations, small businesses, school projects, and more. However, the design process can be quite overwhelming and often times students will hit a block and would like to have assistance from others who might be in the same boat as them. The idea of the Projects and Prototypes Showcase is to bring students together in one room who are all working on a project of some sort, academic or personal, to allow the projects to be shown off in order to get feedback, advice, critiques, or even networking opportunities. The Showcase is designed so that each project remains unfinished in order to gain feedback from other students or faculty to further their product. The showcase will be a participant driven discussion meaning that whatever the participant puts into it, they will get out by asking questions. Shortly after the sign-up for the event, each participant will receive an email explaining the design thinking process and further information to allow the concept to become a little more rubricated. This event will also have local entrepreneurs and business owners, faculty in the innovation departments, and students who have created products and small businesses on campus to initiate conversation and give key advice. This will become a great networking opportunity for those students to gain key connections for future planning.

Kassie Gaytan will run point on this project and will have it in action by the winter semester of 2023. In the future, this event will be able to be held multiple times in an academic year.  '''Key Tactics'''  * Set up official date and reserve the Grand River room in Kirkhof * Inform guests (faculty, past students, and locals) and try to get them to be involved * Send out advertising material well in advance * Sort through sign up sheet and send out the preliminary email * Promote the work of UIF campus wide  == <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2020 Cohort~</span></span></span> ==