Priorities:Santa Monica College Student Priorities
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2024
Carey Corrow
Idea
Streamline the process of booking study rooms, conference rooms, and specialized resources at Santa Monica College. By integrating an intuitive online platform that enhances accessibility and usability, this initiative seeks to maximize the utilization of campus resources and improve the overall student experience.
Key Tactics
- Build Partnerships with Departments
- Host Virtual Demos and Workshops
- Create a User Onboarding Process
- Build a Centralized Resource Library
- Integrate an Access Control System
- Market the BookSmart System
- Monitor and Evaluate Usage
Alison Parrales
Idea
Foster innovation and entrepreneurship by connecting SMC students and faculty across disciplines via an online platform that offers resources, events, and collaborative opportunities. This idea aims to inspire creative problem-solving and growth across our school by building on a foundation set by previous efforts to promote I&E at SMC, while focusing on the virtual aspect to increase accessibility and engagement.
Key Tactics
- Choose a user-friendly platform
- Develop a content strategy
- Build partnerships with departments and clubs
- Host virtual events and workshops
- Create a user onboarding process
- Build a centralized resource library
- Integrate a mentorship matching system
- Establish feedback and improvement loops
- Market the virtual I&E Hub
Antonio Renoj
Idea
Connect students with local tech companies in Santa Monica! The school should be engaging with local partners to bring more visibility to the startup and tech companies in the community. The Santa Monica Innovation Hub and StartupStarter are hosting the SM Innovation Hub that will showcase the various startups, accelerators and businesses for a day long showcase. There's an opportunity to bridge this event and host a smaller scale event at the college that targets students from all fields. Bringing visibility to opportunities can help motivate students to pursue a career in Santa Monica.
Key Tactics
- Build Partnerships with local organizations such as innovation hub, LA Tech Week, SM Chamber of Commerce
- Host in-person event that showcases tech opportunities
- Workshops for honing skills desired by tech startups
- Demonstrations of products and services
- Cultivate a strong relationship between theory and practice
- Highlight the college as a partner to innovative education and staying as the #1 transfer school
Anna Gigliotti
Idea
Foster interdisciplinary collaboration at Santa Monica College by hosting a Design & Techathon that connects students from design, technology, engineering, and business departments. This event will provide an opportunity for students to work together on innovative projects, develop problem-solving and teamwork skills, and gain mentorship from industry professionals. By encouraging cross-departmental interaction, the Techathon aims to enhance student engagement and prepare participants for real-world challenges through hands-on experience.
Key Tactics
- Partner with faculty and student organizations across design, tech, engineering, and business to promote the event.
- Invite industry professionals and faculty to mentor students, fostering networking and skill development.
- Design real-world challenges for teams to solve, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Use social media, posters, and campus partnerships to drive awareness and student engagement.
- Secure sponsorships or campus funding to offer prizes, internships, and small grants, culminating in a final showcase with awards, recognition, and potential follow-up opportunities for participants.
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Irene Rivera
Idea
Redefine entrepreneurship to increase collaboration between students from different majors
Key Tactics
- Reach out to professors from different departments (business, computer science, interaction design, graphic design, art, physical sciences, etc) to discuss opportunities of collaboration between departments
- Ask those professors to announce mixers in their classes and provide extra credit for attending
- Create mixer/workshop activities pertaining to entrepreneurship and innovation with professors
- Survey students from professors’ classes when and where is best to hold the mixer
- Connect with various school clubs to share the idea and ask them to share with club members
- Design and share digital flyers for mixer
Miguel Lucas
Idea
Aggregate social media content to unify the SMC I & E story across campus.
Key Tactics
- Take inventory of existing accounts across different platforms
- Review social media inventory on campus
- Identify Santa Monica College social media guidelines
- Contact web manager and social media Manager
- Create a website, or social account that connects all of these accounts as a hub of digital media
Patrick Rodriguez
Idea
Promote concepts relating to “I&E” and “Design Thinking” on remote platforms, such as the “SMC GO” app, in order to expand awareness and interest to departments outside of business, design, and technology.
Key Tactics
- Survey students and professors in different departments to determine how “design thinking” and “I&E” could be relevant
- (Depending on final solution), construct curriculum and/or activities for interdisciplinary collaboration
- Schedule with Campus Events department
- Contact those in charge of the “SMC GO” app (with user feedback data)
Zoe Torrealba Marin
Idea
SMC student center for co-design that will serve as a subsidiary of the SMC center for media and design. The community space will encourage students to engage in student-led workshops, consultations from IxD student leaders on solving greater problems faced by SMC students, and co-designing with the community. Our mission will focus on a human-centered approach for designing for the interdisciplinary and diverse student community at SMC to co-design with current IxD cohorts.
Key Tactics
- Hire a director and staff for the center
- Hire student coordinators
- Designate a space inside CMD
- Create a mission statement
- Plan the academic semesters and workshop programming calendar
- Plan a grand opening day
- Design marketing resources about the center and its services
- Encourage creative/design thinking for SMC students
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