= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #3</span> =
<font size="3">Provide</font> <span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span>opportunities for students to become introduced to entrepreneurship and recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers.
== Tactic #1: TEDx Event Test Courses ==
= •*Description: Description: University Establish several “test courses” that can provide administration with an example of Pittsburgh currently has lectures about various subjects with key speakers through Pitt Program Council. Most how a pattern of these events are sold out entrepreneurial and students have innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to line up to get ticketsescalating forms of venture creation. Adding **February 2015***Initial interviews with students regarding their thoughts on I&E at JMU***Identify faculty members interested in participating in a TEDx events will connect students course like this**April 2015***Discovery and ideation; explore what other schools are doing to interdisciplinary opportunities and start them introduce I&E earlier in design thinkingtheir curriculum. • Team Leader: TBDDevelop a series of courses in several clusters that could be implemented***Have courses officially created as "test courses" available for enrollment next semester***Have courses registered across several disciplines, as to attract a variety of students**May 2015***Begin designing actual ideas for course lessons, assuming students sign up for courses
Milestones== Tactic #2: Apply for TEDx event license, Invite speakers, Reserve event space, Advertise the event on campus, and Hold the TEDx eventSummer Program ==
=*Description: Start a four to five week ideation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. This apply-for and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majors.*Timeline: TBD
== Tactic #23: Creativity Wall Spread the Word ==
= • *Description: In the engineering building, there are already many white boards on the wall to increase innovation, talk about upcoming events, Create pamphlets and have challenges or problems presented. If they could use one of the walls that gets the most traffic and pose an open ended question, students could add to the ideas and come up with new ways to solve it. This could also be put on the outside of classrooms so that students write on it before entering a classbrief informational speech about I&E opportunities/resources at freshmen year orientation. If they also added more whiteboards in the Business and Arts and Sciences buildings, they could pose the same question that week that was posed in the Engineering building and see how other students approach this. Team Leader: Student TBD
=
== Tactic #3: 1000 Pitches ==
= • Description= Tactic #4: Currently, Pitt students are starting 1000 pitches on campus. They are using this platform to encourage innovation and design thinking, and allowing everyone to feel creative and innovative. This should continue on campus to add to awareness on campus.Residential Learning Community ==
=*Description: Establish a Residential Learning Community for Entrepreneurship. Students who participate in a Residential Learning Community get the unique opportunity to live and take classes with a small group of students who share similar interests. This helps students to be fully immersed in the topic of the RLC. 9 of these already exist on campus, and the Entrepreneurship RLC is already in the works through some members of Society of Entrepreneurs.*Timeline: TBD
= Strategy #4: Change Curriculum =