<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-719c129b-26e4-6217-28ef-bfe2924d73b4"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gap #1: </span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A general unawareness of design, consulting, and innovation focused communities affiliated with NYU-Poly and opportunities for valuable professional experience through the use of creative problem solving methodologies to consult on real world problems.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:</p>
== Tactic #1: Building the Innovation Community ==
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-719c129b-26e5-cccd-41ff-5e17056f0db9"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Description: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will be focused on building synergistic relationships among NYU students, faculty, and innovation consulting firms. We can tap into the different student clubs to source for talent and spread the world about the upcoming competition. We seek support from existing faculty who champion innovation and entrepreneurship, and tap into their networks for insight, advice, resources, and key networks. Lastly, we reach out to top innovation consulting firms willing to work with us to build relationship between their recruiters and out students.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-719c129b-26e5-cccd-41ff-5e17056f0db9"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Team Leader</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Myself UIF Fellows with the help of my our advisor, Anne-Laure Fayard.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-719c129b-26e5-cccd-41ff-5e17056f0db9"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Milestones</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-719c129b-26e5-cccd-41ff-5e17056f0db9"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build an excel sheet called "People of Interest" (includes club leaders, key I&E people at NYU, and outside resources)</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-719c129b-26e5-cccd-41ff-5e17056f0db9"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connect and share the competition proposal, gage their interest.</span></span></li>
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= <span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy 4: Makerspace on campus</span></span></span> =
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After interviewing a lot of stakeholders at the university, it seems like one thing that could further enhance the current I & E ecosystem at the university is a makers spacemakerspace. A space where students can get hands on experience with prototyping and others tools. Students can apply their in-class knowledge to</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">real-life. Conversely, student will be exposed to the latest, 'cutting-edge' technologies as they come out to ensure that the quality of our engineers matches the demand in the booming Brooklyn tech scene</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">real-life.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU School of Engineering is in the initial talk of stages building a makerspace for their community. Being an engineering school, this space would help foster creativity and design tinkering amongst students and faculty.</span></span>
== <span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactics:</span></span> ==
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recognize administrators and other stakeholders (students and faculty) at the university who are responsible/would be interested and connect with them..</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine an ideal space on campus that could be useful for building makerspace</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></spanli><li>Create a hardware hacking space, biomaterial hacking space, and a 'hacker's lounge' for various students to work on and discuss their ideas.</li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seek for corporate partners from the city who would be interested. This would bring in projects for students.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regular workshops for students.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collaborate with the other entrepreneurial and innovative spaces on campus, for example: Incubators, Greenhouse, Leslie E lab, Magnet etc.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Host regular hack fests and invention contest.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Take technologically-adept students and pay them to mentor other students</span></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c809-5a53-9646-1906c459990a"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Terrence_Agbi Terrence Agbi]</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c809-5a53-9646-1906c459990a"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/New_York_University,_School_of_Engineering#Entrepreneurship_.26_Innovation_Landscape_Canvas New York University | School of EngineeringNoah_Geib Noah Geib]</span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jay_Kumar Jay Kumar]</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_Yvens_Henry John Henry]</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c809-5a53-9646-1906c459990a"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/New_York_University,_School_of_Engineering#Entrepreneurship_.26_Innovation_Landscape_Canvas New York University | School of Engineering]</span></span>
= Impact =
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