** Escape the Startup
= Overview Fall 2019 =
Strategic Priorities of the Fall 2019 Design Bloc Cohort
== Strategy 1: Bridge the gap from college to industry ==
=== Tactic 1 ===
* Develop an app to solve a simulated problem related to a company’s product, which also includes a wireframing session
* Students partner with companies in industry to solve a problem</span></span></li>
=== Tactic 2 ===
* Developing “minimester” classes that teach students specific skills used in their own industry.
'''Owner:''' Jordan Lym
== Strategy 3: Enable student-entrepreneurs to solve problems in the local community ==
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Tactic: </span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Address high-profile incidence of crime in nearby Home Park neighborhood </span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Coordinate partnership with Georgia Tech Police Dept. and Create-X startup incubator to host Crime-Prevention Hackathon</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Challenge student teams to develop, prototype and test a solution to prevent crime in Home Park neighborhood over 24-hour competition</span></span></li>
</ul></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encourage both technical and non-technical specialists to apply</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Advertising event as open to all majors and backgrounds</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Leave a wide range of possibilities for requested final product: ranging from community-engagement event to physical crime-prevention tool</span></span></li>
</ul></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Design for key stakeholders’ requirements by:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Hosting firsthand victims of crime from Home Park community, GT student body, and GTPD officers to share their experiences at event kickoff</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating conversations and client-feedback between these stakeholders and student teams throughout the event</span></span></li>
</ul></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Ensure long-term execution of winning project</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Offer winning team a position in summer-long startup incubator program through Create-X</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Grant winning team $5,000 in seed funds to implement solution</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Over the following semester, winning team meets monthly with GTPD, Create-X entrepreneurship advisor and Home Park community representatives to review progress and receive feedback </span></span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-90f9146e-7fff-fb4e-fef6-6f6ec0289831"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Owner: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Hunter Schaufel</span></span></li>
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* Address high-profile incidence of crime in nearby Home Park neighborhood
* Coordinate partnership with Georgia Tech Police Dept. and Create-X startup incubator to host Crime-Prevention Hackathon
** Challenge student teams to develop, prototype and test a solution to prevent crime in Home Park neighborhood over 24-hour competition
* Encourage both technical and non-technical specialists to apply
** Advertising event as open to all majors and backgrounds
** Leave a wide range of possibilities for requested final product: ranging from community-engagement event to physical crime-prevention tool
* Design for key stakeholders’ requirements by:
** Hosting firsthand victims of crime from Home Park community, GT student body, and GTPD officers to share their experiences at event kickoff
** Facilitating conversations and client-feedback between these stakeholders and student teams throughout the event
* Ensure long-term execution of winning project
** Offer winning team a position in summer-long startup incubator program through Create-X</span></span></li>
** Grant winning team $5,000 in seed funds to implement solution</span></span></li>
** Over the following semester, winning team meets monthly with GTPD, Create-X entrepreneurship advisor and Home Park community representatives to review progress and receive feedback
'''Owner:''' Hunter Schaufel
<div><br/></div>'''----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'''= Fall 2017 =
<span style="font-size: medium">The primary priorities for the Fall 2017 cohort are to:</span>
#<font size="3">Build awareness and visibility of interdisciplinary courses on campus, especially for first-year students. </font>#<font size="3">Combat the following issues with I&E resources on campus: they are too competitive with each other, they are too exclusive, they serve too small a niche, and they are inaccessible.</font>
= '''<span style="font-size: medium">Strategy #1: Build awareness and visibility of interdisciplinary courses on campus, especially for first-year students. </span>''' =