= <span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy #1: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">Create collisions amongst entrepreneurial minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.</span></span> =
== <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; 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-space: 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;">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/ul></ul> </ul> *<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-da252547-3e50-04ac-c8d4-7d756e1d860d"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April 2015</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-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></ul><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>>
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