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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Overview</span></span> =
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Strategy #1: A Startup Support Network </span></span><span style="font-size: smaller; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Validate Ideas & </span><span style="font-size: smaller; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Connect Student Innovators</span> =
== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Tatic #1: Form an Idea Validation Pannel </span></span> == One of the most dificult tasks as an entreprenuer is determining if an idea is worth pursuing. While there is a shark-tank program in development at the University of Dayton, there is currently no resource for early stage project advising. Through forming a pannel of student entreprenuers and faculity, a program can be established so that students can have their ideas vetted before they form a team and start pursuing the venture. This program would also serve as an early stage venture advising resource for student entreprenuers. == <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: smaller;">Tatic #2: Create a Database of Innovators</span></span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Many students currently have entreprenual ideas, but lack the connections needed to move from ideation to a working product or startup. Often as a result of little collaboration across department lines, there are many cases where a team of engineering students lack business expertise, business students lack technical (engineering) knowledge, or where any of these groups lack artistic abillity. By creating a database of high acheiving and talented students from across the the entire university, student innovators could easily fill the gaps that exist in their teams. </span> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Strategy #2: Inspiring Inspire Students (TEDxUdayton)</span></span> =
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; background-color: transparent;">Hosting a TEDxUdayton with individuals with a proven mindset in I&E will help inspire students who want to understand what it takes to succeed in innovation and entrepreneurship. A dual focus will on that students leave with the knowledge of resources on campus, to learn, experiment, pursue and spin out after the presentation. Standard Symposium offers the perfect time to host this event. Is an all-day event to celebrate graduate and undergraduate academic achievements, in addition all course are canceled so that students can engage in any number of events that fit their interest.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cccd98e1-d10b-51b6-3cc7-050273d53026"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Host on Standard Symposium Day, April 20</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">th</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, 2017.</span></span></span>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Strategy #3: Recognizing Recognize Student Accomplishments</span></span> =
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Strategy #4: Incorporating Incorporate I&E Into Coursework</span></span><br/> =
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">I think one of the most important ways to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship within a school is to incorporate these traits into the classroom. Clubs and extra-curriculars are all great ways to further your passion for innovation, but the only way to guarantee that all students gain this valuable mindset is to enforce it in the classroom. I believe that one of the best parts of our makerspace is that it provides professors an added resource to promote an innovative mindset within their students. This includes assigning homework or group project assignments that require students to not only use the makerspace, but collaborate with their group members. Collaboration with this makerspace is key, because our goal is for the entire university to benefit from this advanced and creative space, not just engineers. For this reason, we are proponents of changing/adding classes to the university's curriculum that pull in students from all majors and encourage a collaborative culture within those students. We want to foster an environment in which students are excited about working with students from other majors because we feel that this not only creates a more successful product, but prepares them for the real world in which they will be forced to work with others who may not share their same perspective. In summary, we want the makerspace to play a significant role in the university's curriculum by encouraging collaboration with students from different majors and mindsets. </span></span></span>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Strategy #5: Competition/Hackathon Series</span></span> =
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