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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-e31f6d48-7fff-9b20-5804-9a53066a6a39"><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #2: Entrepreneurs of the Nott (EON)</span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc9c937e-7fff-aa5e-8ce8-3f356d7a822c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Union lauds itself for its diversity in many areas. Across socioeconomic, religious, social, and political divides, Union tries its hardest in order to ensure that as many people as possible can be as comfortable as possible. However, I’ve noticed an alarming lack of representation for other religions besides Christianity with small groups being created for major religions such as Islam and Hinduism with others, such as Buddhism, Sikhism, and so on not having any representation on campus whatsoever. These are all religions with incredibly rich cultures and practices and these religions are not properly represented on campus with the current resources allocated to them. That is why I propose that we convert some of our Idea Labs on Union’s campus into prayer and meditation rooms for people who follow any of these religions! For example, if you follow the Islamic faith and it’s time for midday prayer, one might be hard pressed to find a private and quiet place to pray, especially if they have to travel far from home. That is where the Religious Representation Room (or R Cube) comes into play! Within the room, there will be a plethora of materials for people to read and view such as prayer books of these different religions, how to properly pray according to the customs of each religion, and more. These rooms will be a hub for both enlightenment as well as cultural diversity and enrichment as people from any background are capable of walking into the room and meditating or learning about the religion by actively, and correctly, participating in their religious practices. What my current prototype lacks in artistic creativity, it makes up for it in its efficiency. Many of the materials required to create these rooms are quite cheap and the product of such a small amount of expenditure would greatly outweigh the negatives and could lead to a more connected campus, both interpersonally as well as spiritually. I have rooms for Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, and Judaic prayer with many more on the way depending on the access to rooms!</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc9c937e-7fff-aa5e-8ce8-3f356d7a822c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve shown many compatriots my rather lackluster artpiece of the potential layout of the R.R.R and I have been inundated with amazing ideas on how to improve it and on how to push it even further to represent more people. Many people are excited about the concept, even the people whose religion is properly represented by Union. The tests also allowed me to open my mind to the resources already available on Union’s campus and how I can work with those already existing resources to create something better.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc9c937e-7fff-aa5e-8ce8-3f356d7a822c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This project is feasible, not only due to the lack of monetary cost within it, but also because of the guidance of other students and faculty members on campus who have a more personal connection to these religions and know how to properly represent them within the RRR. By contacting and working with other religious figures on the campus such as the leaders of our Chabad house, Shmuly and Laiky Rubin, as well as the Muslim student Adviser, Genghis Khan, the planning behind creating these rooms becomes significantly easier and it also allows for us to build connections between the different religious groups on campus.</span></span></span>

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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-e31f6d48-7fff-9b20-5804-9a53066a6a39"><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic #4: Encourage more Women in Computer Science</span></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-532a5571-7fff-1e9a-3c96-6f77f40e5707"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not many women in computer science is a phenomenon that I noticed at Union. My aim is to encourage more women to get involved. Knowing how to code is an essential skill and innovation is interconnected with coding. Creative ideas can grow and be developed through computer science. But yet not many women are pursuing a computer science or computer engineering major. That might occur because of stereotypes making women unwelcomed, lack of technological education and even because people think that tech careers are antisocial, or computer science is hard or the work environment is hostile to women. We do not highlight enough role models of women in computer science.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For all these reasons I thought of some possible solutions and according to the feedback I received from my fellow students we agreed that if we could bring successful women of computer science to present their experience they could further motivate students and promote more women. To organize Coding Competitions (Hackathons) with good prizes and for professors to assign team projects outside of the classroom to increase the diversity of the field and make it a fun learning process are two great ideas to get this done. In general a good step would be to offer students the chance to attend conferences, workshops, career fairs and seminars on that field.</span></span></span>