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===<span>Saluki Ventures</span> ===
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<span style="font-size:larger"><span>One of the prominent features of SIU's entrepreneurial efforts is Saluki Ventures. An open student business incubator structured to help facilitate the entrepreneurial pursuits of all students across the university's campus. For a low rate of $30 per semester, student members of Saluki Ventures have direct access to hands-on training,consulting services, and mentorship within a student-focused incubation program embedded within the region’s leading business incubator. Facilities include a resource room, work space, collaboration area, a developing makerspace plus many other amenities and resources needed to help their business grow.</span></span>
Established in 2018 as the Creative Writing Podcasting Studio, the Digital Humanities Lab provides students with a unique opportunity to try their hand in new mediums for publishing humanities research. A joint effort by the English and History Departments, with the rest of the College of Liberal Arts, the Digital Humanities Lab also helps set SIU apart by giving students unique opportunites.
===College of Agriculture: Green Roof Revitalization and Modernization Project===Project aim was The project took many twist and turns over its lifecycle. Initially, the project called for a brand awareness campaign fused with Design Thinking Workshops for bringing students and faculty both on campus and virtually together to revitalize emphasize and modernize ideate solutions towards increasing student engagement within the space. The collaboration led to the current Green Roof project being phased as "transforming an innovative existing green space into an interdisciplinary innovation hub for cross-disciplinary education participatory learning." In connection to the brand awareness, several engineering projects were initiated by the founder, Nelson Fernandes. These projects were worked on by a virtual team starting in 2020, inspired by the pandemic, where students from SIU and other universities in the US and minimizing human maintenance requirementsEurope came together. Revitalizing an innovative space The students designed, manufactured, and installed 3 temporary small wind turbines with Solar PV for cross-disciplinary the Green Roof to inspire a clean energy agenda by the university . Additionally, conducted research, specifically agriculture on a smart irrigation system's effectiveness and renewable energya wind turbine constructed from common household materials. All projects were used to showcase opportunities available to students on campus within this interdisciplinary space. From the project outcomes, several awards were awarded to the team and showcase vegetation from Southern founder including the IllinoisInnovation Network's Student Innovator of the Year, SIUC Student Service Award, etc. Modernizing through implementing an original Autonomous Irrigation System, Wind TurbineCurrently, the Green Roof Team transitioned as a business where they are turning their experiences and projects into educational resources and Data Acquisition Device diy kits for sale. You can learn more through their website: https://greenroofteam.com/.
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===Industrial Design===
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===<span>Southern Illinois Research Park</span>===
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===<span>February 28, 2020</span>===
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===Landscape Canvas and Presentation from Fall 2021:===