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= <span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy 4: Makerspace on campus</span></span></span> =
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After interviewing a lot of stakeholders at the university, it seems like one thing that could further enhance the current I & E ecosystem at the university is a makers spacemakerspace. &nbsp;A space where students can get hands on experience with prototyping and others tools. Students can apply their in-class knowledge to</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">real-life. Conversely, student will be exposed to the latest, 'cutting-edge' technologies as they come out to ensure that the quality of our engineers matches the demand in the booming Brooklyn tech scene</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">real-life.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU School of Engineering is in the initial talk of stages building a makerspace for their community. &nbsp;Being an engineering school, this space would help foster creativity and design tinkering amongst students and faculty.</span></span>
== <span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactics:</span></span> ==
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recognize administrators and other stakeholders (students and faculty) at the university who are responsible/would be interested and connect with them..</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine an ideal space on campus that could be useful for building makerspace</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></li><li><span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>Create a hardware hacking space, biomaterial hacking space, and a 'hacker's lounge' for various students to work on and discuss their ideas.</li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seek for corporate partners from the city who would be interested. This would bring in projects for students.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regular workshops for students.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collaborate with the other entrepreneurial and innovative spaces on campus, for example: Incubators, Greenhouse, Leslie E lab, Magnet etc.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-554d5418-c7ef-e69a-e6c9-8d922934b3fa"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Host regular hack fests and invention contest.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Take technologically-adept students and pay them to mentor other students</span></li>
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