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<span style="font-sizeIntroduction = Sharang and his team at Cooper Union started the create@cooper organization in Fall of 2013 ([mailto:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Create create@cooper.org create@cooper.org]). The motivation of create@cooper, according to Sharang, is to expand students' exposure beyond course work to the cultivation of one's creative self. After a year of championing for entrepreneurship with limited results, Sharang and his colleagues realized, tested and validated a new club or thesis which is resonating well with students in the organization</span><ul style="margin's early days. Cooper Union students have a passion for creativity and innovation. Sharang and his team felt that by cultivating the strong demand for creative expression amongst engineers and artists on campus, they could “connect-top:0pt;marginthe-bottom:0pt;">dots” and provide a fertile ground for cultivating the entrepreneurial mindset.<li><span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Intro (short paragraph describing the club that was created)Create and Tell<br/span></li>=<li><span style[[File:Creattell.png|Creattell.png|link="font-sizehttp:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Need and goal (what you did to assess the need and how this club would fill that need)</span>/createatcooper.org/create.html]] = Community Workshop<br/li>=<li><span style[[File:Workshop.png|Workshop.png|link="font-sizehttp:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Academic permission (what kind of permission and proposals were needed)</span></li>createatcooper.org/workshops.html]]<li><span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Support (what types of support were necessary — faculty, student, leadership, alumni, community, etc)Creator Stories<br/span>=</li><li><span style[[File:Share.png|Share.png|link="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decorationhttp:none; vertical-align:baseline">Cost (what funding was necessary to create the club, and how that funding was found/raised)</span><createatcooper.org/li>stories.html]]<li><span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000Journeys to Creation&nbsp; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Leadership (how you selected who would run the club)<br/span>=</li><li><span style[[File:Journey.png|Journey.png|link="font-sizehttp:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Launch (how you promoted and launched the new club)</span>/createatcooper.org/journeys.html]]</li><li><span style="font-size:15pxSupport = Faculty and many local entrepreneurs have been very supportive of create@cooper. The team raised sponsorships from the Huffington Post Tech, Hackerati and ZocDoc. &nbsp; fontGiven the team's growth plans and the fact that both co-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; fontfounders are seniors, the team is actively building an organization with an eye towards recruiting future leadership. Similar to the Invention-weight:normal; font2-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Lessons learned Venture workshop at Cooper Union, create@cooper incorporated the technological flavor of Cooper Union and tips engaged the local community of New York City. The entrepreneurship path for others (what worked create@cooper is first to raise community awarenesss, then involve more students and what didn’t, finally shape them to lead entrepreneurship at Cooper Union and your recommendations for others)</span></li>beyond. </ul>[[Category:Learn]]