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''Gregory Wilson, a second year PhD student at the founder University of Georgia and current University Innovation Fellow, was interviewed for his experience in founding an innovation and design club known as the What I.F.? club, saw a need for innovation and entrepreneurial enrichment upon evaluation of the UGA campus by way of the UIF Landscape Analysis. Gregory found that other campus organizations were too focused on entrepreneurship or not facilitated across disciplines- a characteristic of innovation that cannot be denied. Research has shown that diversity breeds innovation.'' '' Gregory assessed the interest of students after standing as a guest lecturer to a freshman mechanical engineering class. He believed that he could get engineers excited about design thinking through inter-disciplinary groups.''
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<span style="font-size:larger">'''Topic'''</span>
*Pick your team and organization board wisely. You will be spending lots of time together.
*Have fun! This is something not everyone gets to do. Be an entrepreneur. Be an innovator. Change the world. Start by changing your campus.
