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<div><div>'''Strategic Priority #6.2 (Fiorenza 2020)'''</div><div><br/></div><div> A remote semester has students feeling detached from the innovation ecosystem at Swarthmore. Additionally, students are burnt out from zoom meetings and have little motivation to pursue virtual extracurricular activities. Therefore, we thought of creating a one-day virtual design thinking challenge in partnership with the Trico schools. Students would come together to address a challenge presented by the City of Philadelphia. The challenge would incentivize students to attend because it gives them an opportunity to connect with the innovation ecosystem in the Swarthmore area and upon completion, they will obtain tangible outcomes for their skill development. Successful participants would obtain a certificate of completion that demonstrates their understanding of the design thinking model and they would enter to win a gift card. Their experience would motivate them to apply design thinking to other challenges they face and would establish a connection to the innovation resources available at Swarthmore.</div></div>
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<div><div>'''Strategic Priority #6.3 (Haron 2020)'''</div><div><br/></div><div>Swarthmore College prides itself on many departments that offer funding geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship. However, there is not much guidance for how new student innovators can get to move their ideas from an idea to an actual implementable project. This is the gap that my UIF project intends to fill. I am designing a 10 week Systems Thinking course that will guide new student innovators through the project design process. By so doing, this gives the students a good grasp of the issue area they want to address as well as what leverage points exist.
These new student innovators will also have access to seasoned Social Innovation Lab Associates who have successfully undergone this process and worked on projects. By setting up a feedback channel between new innovators and the experienced ones, the new student innovators will have a lot to gain.</div></div>
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