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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-25305550-394e-e588-a3f4-d9d176ace733"><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Illinois Tech Entrepreneurship AcademyInnovation Challenge:</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Illinois Tech Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a Innovation Challenge invites students from Chicago area community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments colleges and units. Its purpose is high school schools to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related codevelop smart solutions for real-curricular activities available for all university majorsworld consumer or business needs.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0This event encourages and inspires students to think about creating physical things, 0applications, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities and applications that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students control physical things by encouraging them to seek to have solve a real-world experience in innovation consumer or business need or problem that they have identified. Demonstrate their creativity and entrepreneurshipinventiveness at solving this problem. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking This event also provides an opportunity to earn a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, monetary prize unto $2500 and business and social organizationsfree rent at a maker’s co-working space to recognize their accomplishment.</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49">[httphttps://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy /innovation-challenge <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Illinois Tech Entrepreneurship AcademyInnovation Challenge</span>]</span></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Interprofessional Projects Program</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Developed at Since 1995 Illinois Tech in 1995, Tech’s IPRO Program has provided the alternative to a traditional undergraduate education. Our signature IPRO Program consists remains one of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth just a few programs of its kind in the university’s disciplines and professional programscountry. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide joins students a variety from various majors to work together to solve real-world problems, often on behalf of choices that tap their passion sponsor companies and disciplinary knowledgenonprofits. A required academic program, IPRO projects also offer sponsorsteaches leadership, creativity, teamwork, design thinking, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed project management—uniquely preparing students to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students succeed in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their a professional work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluatedenvironment.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The interprofessional projects program at Illinois Tech gives Each semester culminates with Innovation Day, a forum where students showcase their team’s outcomes for members of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experienceIllinois Tech community, sponsors, and public at large. Students also get prepare posters, conduct live demos, show off their designs and prototypes, and have the chance opportunity to display speak with expert guests about their projects to work—along the way developing public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day speaking and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their projectskills.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Links to Additional Resources:</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49">[http://ipro.iit.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Illinois Tech IPRO</span>]</span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49">[httphttps://ipro.iit.edu/wpipro-content/uploadsstudent-projects/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IPRO BrochureStudent Projects</span>]</span></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Idea Shop</span></span>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Every idea needs fuel to be successful. Illinois Tech’s Idea Shop is an exciting helps to ignite ideas with cutting-edge tools to help students transform their new facility developed in 2010 by Illinois Tech. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs products and elevates the entire educational experienceinventions into reality.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontThis state-family: Arial; fontof-size: 15px; whitethe-space: pre-wrap; backgroundart, rapid-color: transparent;">The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including prototyping lab houses 3D printersand scanners, cuttersmultiple CNC milling machines, labsa vacuum former, and teamlaser cutter. Full-specific areas. It gives time staff advise students tools on everything from equipment use to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing soproduct marketability. You can use the Idea Shop for a class project, research project, or your own personal endeavor.</span>
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