<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-69d3aac4-7034-8d31-6370-2e51192829b5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When it comes to producing a UIF regional meet-up, connections and partnerships are the beginning, middle, and end. Before you can host a regional meetup, you'll need to spend a significant amount of time planning the event. Included in this planning is determining which partnerships will ultimately help in ensuring that your meetup runs smoothly. In this wiki, you'll be introduced to some of the ways you can leverage strategic partnerships to produce a University Innovation Fellows regional meet-up. If done effectively, these partnerships should be involved in every stage of the process from finding a venue and lodging to providing meals and entertainment.</span></span></span></span>
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= <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Importance of Partnerships</span></span></span> =
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-69d3aac4-7034-8d31-6370-2e51192829b5"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Another important part of leveraging your partnerships is marketing. If no one knows what you’re trying to do, no one will be willing to help you. Get the word out. If you don’t know how to do it, form a partnership with someone who does. This partnership can be as small as someone on the school newspaper willing to write an article about what you are wanting to do, or as large as the Provost of your institution, who might willing to raise funds in order to make your meetup plans a reality.</span></span></span></span>
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= <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking a Business Point of View</span></span></span> =
== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Theme</span></span></span></span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: small; background-color: transparent;">Picking out a theme is an especially important part of any meetup. Not only should it play hand in hand with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation on college campuses, but it should be engaging for all the guests. Creativity is an absolute must for this ingrediant of the regional-meetup. Some noteworthy themes from past meetups are "Own It. Do It." Where students were encouraged to just start being creative and making whatever they dreampt up. Another interesting one asked students to create something innovative, yet wearable. It combined tech with peoples everyday lives.</span>
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= <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Pushing Through Resistance</span></span> =