In order to accomplish this goal, a group in the engineering school is starting an initial space in order to prove demand and bolster support. In the near future, we hope to expand the space and form multiple spaces, encompassing the entire scale of prototyping fidelity and providing the lowest posible barrier to entry to students in all schools at Pitt
== <span style="font-size:large">Milestone #1: Find and Create a Space (Completed Jan 1st 2016)</span> ==
• Secured space in engineering building to serve as the first space. Space was remodelled and essentially inheirited as a blank slate.
*Outreach Team: In charge of promoting the space both on and off campus. Seeks industry sponsors. Led by Reshef Elisha
== Tactic Milestone #3: Host Design Competitions Have a completely organized, functional, highly used space<br/>Date: April 2016 ==
• Description: Another way *Paint and outfit the room to inspire students is to actually host design competitions make it a more welcoming and thought provoking place*Set up equipment and materials in the incubator space. This could mean finding a competition through “mindsumo.com” or facilitating room*Iron out the completion of a project for entry in management scheme to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness*Maximize data tracking*Steadily increase traffic and cultivate a local competition like the Randall Big Idea Competition. A winner in one of these competitions is very likely to attract many other students to the space.community*Secure industry sponsors
•== Milestone #4: Have a grand opening to kick off the new school year<br/>Date: September 2016 == After completely setting up the space, ensuring everthing runs smoothly, and perfecting our data tracking techniquies, we will begin to heavily promote the space in the new school year, holding events and doing our best to bring in more students than we have space and resources. By doing this, we hope to prove that demand has outgrown the space and that it is time to expand to more and better spaces. Team Leader == Milestone #5: Propose more and better spaces<br/>Date: October 2016 == The data collected over the course of the year will serve as the basis for a proposal to greatly increase the resources put into makerspaces and to rapidly expand our space to other location. We will propose both more spaces for general project work along with additional spaces for higher fildelity work. == Milestone #6: Begin a campuswide group of makerspaces<br/>Date: TBDSpring 2017 == Using funding hopefully aquired from Milestone #5, we will scale up our proven management structure and launch additional spaces around campus
= Strategy #3: Increase awareness of I&E on campus =