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= <span stylefont color="color:#000000;" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:larger14.3999996185303px;">The </span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">Calling All StudentsUniversity Innovation Fellows at</span></spanstyle="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have devloped the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.</span> =
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= <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Overview</span></span></span><br/> =
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship</span></span><br/> =
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= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 23px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments</span> =
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Strategy #5 Pegasus Crowdfunding Network</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.</span></span><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Laying the Foundation of Storytelling</span></span> ==<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 1: Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015)</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.</span></span><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Spotlights</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work</span></span><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</span></span></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 2: Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Achieve Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015)</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”</span></span><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</span></span></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li><li>== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Idea Exchange</span></span> ==<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 3: Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015)</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</span></span></li></ul></li><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database (1/2016)</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</span></span></li></ul></li><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 5: Add Team Formation Functionality (1/2016)</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</span></span></li></ul></li></ul></li><li>== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A Horse and its Wings</span></span> ==<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 6: Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016)</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</span></span></li></ul></li><li>=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017)</span></span> ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</span></span></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
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