Changes

 In the creation of any organization there are risks that need to be assessed.  Elliot Roth states “a club should be self-sustaining.”  He means that a club should be able to stand on its own in the generation of ideas and concepts.  It is a student run initiative and it is in the passion of the members that bring results.  Large academic support recognizes results of an organization.  While academic support is needed for funding and physical space to meet for a university organization, the club should be able to set its own agenda and search out and establish the resources required to produce effective results.  Students are trying to create the networks to see what other disciplines are doing and truly passionate students will continue doing the things that need to be done to create something of value. It is the students that are making the connections and bridging the gap.  This should be encouraged and nourished to its full potential. 

Most entrepreneurial organizations begin as a small grassroots group then slowly expand.  The audience for interdisciplinary groups are students who wish to build a portfolio and not just a resume.  These are the people that love having an end result and ask themselves “What business would I want to start?”  The goal of most artists is to create something, which isn’t very different from engineers who like to solve problems and create solutions.  Elliot Roth says he became an engineer to make things and was frustrated with the lack of outlets to express the need to tinker and build in his university classes.  An entrepreneurial organization, like SEED, allowed for the space and resources to fulfill this outlet. The collaboration with an artist group like ArtUp brought the two groups together with a common mission and appealed to those who wanted to share their point of view and experience others.