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**Planning for the next year's DENX (Fall Semester 2018)
<br />=Strategy #8: Foster Connection Between Undergraduate Students And Their Professors= <span style="font-size:medium"><u>Tactic #1: Create a "Meet the Professors" event</u></span> Team Leaders: Hayden Roof, University Innovation Fellows *'''Description''': "Meet the professors" is a event designed to introduce new students to their discipline's professors. Occurring at the beginning of the academic semester, the event allow attending professors to introduce themselves as people along with their work, research, or areas of interest within the discipline. Students would be able to ask questions to the panel of professors concerning various topics, which professors could then chime in and answer. After the panel session, students and professors would be able to mingle in an informal environment to ask more questions and further engage with one another. Ideally, this project would alleviate some of the academic stress for new students that comes with transitioning to college from high school. =Strategy #9: Alleviating Student Stress During Finals Week Through Creative Outlets= <span style="font-size:medium"><u>Tactic #1: Community Canvas Mural Art</u></span> Team Leaders: Hayden, Megan, Brianna, University Innovation Fellows *'''Description''': Often, stress for college students reaches its peak in the weeks approaching and during finals. Most events held during this stressful time on campus typically just involve handing out candy, snacks, or stress relieving trinkets. The community canvas mural art would instead offer a more interactive and creative outlet for students to release their stress, all the while creating a tangible product from the contribute of the entire student body. For one week before finals, a booth would be held near a high traffic area on campus. The booth would host the mural, which is a large piece of canvas. Students would be able to approach the booth and contribute to the mural through a variety of creative painting techniques that involve physical movement. For example, one technique could be a water ballon filled with a mixture of water and paint, that could be thrown at the mural and splatter. Along with the mural, snacks, goodies, and/or repeated contributions to the mural, could be offered for a small donation that goes to a chosen campus organization that supports student wellbeing. =Strategy #10: Student Outreach for Innovation and Entrepreneurship = <span style="font-size:medium"><u>Tactic #1: More Frequent Pitch Competitions</u></span> Team Leaders: Hayden, Megan, Brianna, University Innovation Fellows *'''Description''': Currently, Clemson's various colleges offer specific student pitch competition. These competitions include SPARK, for the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences, and Catalyst, for the College of Sciences. While these competitions do offer outlets for students in their respective colleges to pitch their innovative product or business ideas to relevant industry leaders, they do still have their drawbacks. Among these drawbacks are their limited student scope and the potential learning curve that exists for students that are not familiar with the business side of their field. This tactic would address these concerns through holding more frequent pitch competitions open to all majors and disciplines. Each pitch competition would have a specific theme that would be announced a least a month in advance. In the weeks leading up to the competition, interested students could attend meetings that focus on introducing and developing design thinking and pitching skills. Once the competition date arrives, students would pitch their ideas to a panel of faculty with interest or expertise in the competition theme, and then recieve feedback from the judges shortly after. The highest scoring pitches would be awarded a small prize. =Strategy #11: Supporting Student Wellbeing Through Nature= <span style="font-size:medium"><u>Tactic #1: Outdoor Study Space at the Botanical Gardens</u></span> Team Leaders: Hayden, Megan, Brianna, University Innovation Fellows *'''Description''': Recent studies have concluded that spending around 2 hours outside in nature can boost an individual's physical and mental wellbeing. Unfortunately, most college students often lack the free time to visit a park or other outdoor space. By utilizing Clemson's unique status as the home of the South Carolina Botanical Gardens, the outdoor study space would allow students to spend time in nature while also being able to work on their studies. The study space would consist of a covered area and various seating and table options. The space would be designed and constructed in a sustainable manner that minimally intrudes on the surrounding natural environment. For instance, the installation of solar panels could allow for the powering of outlets and other electronics without the need for connecting the facility to the grid. * *Related Links=
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