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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategies for Expansion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus</span> =

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">A small maker space is currently in the works to be implemented in the current Enterprise lab. At this time, there are very few spaces on campus where students can come together and work collaboratively and have access to prototyping tools and supplies. Much of the renovation necessary to create an effective invention space has been completed, but additional support is needed to gather tools and supplies. This space will allow us to obtain student feedback in order to potentially expand to a much larger and extensive invention space on campus.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">After creating an amazing collaborative space on campus, there will be plenty of opportunities to host events focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. These events will focus on creating excitement about the new initiatives on campus and recruit motivated students for the new I&E section of the Pavlis Honors College. The Pathways team has been working on bringing in a few speakers, and the student programming board is already planning an event to be held in the space.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">10X Thinking Workshop - An opportunity for students to understand the steps to brainstorming and prototyping an idea. One of these already happened on campus in a small scale, but the hope is to have more in order to reach more students.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">StartupTech is an Enterprise team that connects top student talent to student led startups. It utilizes the existing enterprise infrastructure to ensure student involvement by allowing students to work on a startup team as part of their required credits for graduation. Connecting engineering teams to students motivated by turning an idea into a business will help promote business development far more than it currently is at Michigan Tech.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">A Board of Directors for the program would consist of faculty involved in I&E on campus, a representative from the Houghton SmartZone and a student with startup and leadership experience. The board will be responsible for selecting the ventures to include in the program as well as monitoring the students participating in the program.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">With the formation of the new Pavlis Honors College on Michigan Tech's campus, the are plenty of new opportunities available to introduce innovation and creative thinking early in the student experience. One of the best ways to inspire a shared vision within students is provide them with the opportunity to spend time with other students who are interested in similar ideas. By creating an environment where students are constantly challenged to think differently in their everyday experiences, they will develop a more diverse set of problem solving skills to implement in their daily lives.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Next year the Pavlis Honors College will have a learning community for first year students in the College. This will be a great opportunity to test out some creative ways to incorporate creative thinking into residence hall life. Resident Assistants are currently required to create programs for their students to participate in and this would be an exceptional opportunity to test out some new ideas. Some of these programs that they do with their students make include some of the events such as the Make-a-thon or the 10X Thinking Workshop.</span></span>

=== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Command the Dialogue</span> ===

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