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= Student Group Campus Converge =
The University of Minensota has over 900 student groups. Some are more active than others , but all engage students in some way that improves the student their overall college experience. Some groups even have tangible affects in missions within the area of Innovation and EntreprneurshipEntrepreneurship. The idea behind a campus converge would be to bring leaders from the most prominent or high potential groups together so that they can learn about eachother's initiatives and find ways to improve their operations and collaborate.
There have been multiple students from several student groups who have expressed interest in, or even hosted, an event like this. However, there was not as much follow-up after the events as they would like. Each event so far has involved students from a diverse group of backgrounds, generated a ton of momentum day of, but has not created the lasting relationships necessary to create cross-collaborative projects. The chance to get passionate people talking about what they're passionate about seems like a high potential opportunity and we'd like to pursue hosting on with procedures in place to create lasting bonds.
Some ideas to solve this issue would be to launch a Creativity Coalition on campus - a place for all like-minded groups to come together to share and merge ideas. This would hopefully become the hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, cultivating high energy and new ideas to push UIF's mission forward. Some student groups have already started collaborating; Design U and Minnovate are in the working stage of creating Prototyping Centers around campus: a place where students and community members can pay a small fee to use the workshop to prototype new ideas.
'''Milestones'''
*Conduct Reach out to key student leaders to evaluate what they'd like to gain from this eventa Creativity Coalition*Create the overall Research and create a structure for the eventstudent groups to collaborate*Host the event *Organize a way Brainstorm possible events for students Innovation leaders to walk away with collaborative projects/goalshost
= Central Maker Space =
