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*== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e4e-7db4-3770-2eb378122a7c"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><u>Tactic 1</u>: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Cultivate talent in theme based hack-a-thon style events that correlate to the various colleges of academics, but appeal to the general population. We would want to create a brand that </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">does not alienate or intimidate students that don’t necessarily think of this as “their” thing.</span></span></span>==

*<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1-2 times per month</span>*<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">24hr Hackathons - “Think-A-Thon”)</span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e4f-10a8-56e5-f965badf4dc5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Various themes/prompts that represent the interests of all the colleges of academics i.e.:</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">​</span>**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">College of Education:</span>***<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">​</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Reinvent the classroom</span>**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">​</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">College of Health and Behavioral Studies:</span>***<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">​</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Nursing &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>****<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">​</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Create low-cost products that meet basic needs of the world's poorest people.</span>**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">​</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Integrated Science and Technology / School of Art, Design and Art History:</span>***<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">​</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Designing for a sustainable campus</span>***<span style="white-2 times per monthspace: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Fashion think-a-thon</span>

*<span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e50-04ac-c8d4-7d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The theme of these thinker-mixers/hack-a-thons would vary each time and would touch on topics that are up-to-date with current events to help attract students from all colleges within JMU. This in turn, would help continuity of participation and the dismantlement of silos.</span></span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e50-04ac-c8d4-7d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gathering participant information gives us a more defined target audience to project some marketing efforts toward.</span></span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e50-04ac-c8d4-7d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Approaching these events with hopes of there being multi-disciplinary teams does not expedite the view that these are hack-a-thons or techie events. This merely generates exploratory and problem-solving experiences to any given area of study.</span></span>*<span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e50-04ac-c8d4-7d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agenda for planning:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e50-04ac-c8d4-7d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">February 2015</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning/Scheduling/Marketing</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e50-04ac-c8d4-7d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">March 2015</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First Event</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e4f3e50-10a804ac-56e5c8d4-f965badf4dc57d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24hr Hackathons April 2015</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white- “Thinkspace: pre-Awrap;">- </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-Thon”)wrap;">Second Event</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e50-04ac-c8d4-7d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May 2015</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Third Event</span></span></li></ul>&lt;/ul&gt;<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e50-98e6-7619-566fc69e2fbc"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><u>Tactic 2</u>:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Launch a heavily marketed website that establishes a network for students looking to collaborate and pursue a business or product idea. This JMU affiliated website would help spread awareness of funding opportunities, resources available on campus, upcoming I&E events, and clubs/groups.</span></span></li></ul>

**<span id="docs-internal-guid-da252547-3e4f-10a8-56e5-f965badf4dc5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline&lt; white-space: pre-wrap/ul&gt;">Various themes/prompts that represent the interests of all the colleges of academics i.e.:</spandiv><br/span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">​</spandiv>