== Creating More Opportunities for Students to Investigate the St. Louis Startup Scene ==
Insert Description HereWe believe that hands-on learning is crucial to the development of creativity, innovation, and valuable skills in today’s economy. With that in mind, we hope to create either an engineering class or club (whichever is more feasible both the short and long term) that is student guided to teach underclassmen (freshman/sophomores) the basic skills expected of an engineer in the workforce. Many of these foundational skills such as programming, computer aided design, etc. are not taught in detail until the Junior and Senior years. The goal of this course/club would not to replace these upper level classes, but to offer a challenging rudimentary intro for underclassmen. The culmination of this course would be a pairing of engineers to engineering companies. Each group of students would embark on a semester-long project assigned to them by the startup. Alternatively, the engineering club would work to develop connections with engineering startups and take on projects that would seem to have industrial value. Those that join this club and work on the projects would gain valuable hands-on skills that they can market to companies or innovate with.
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| <brCreate comprehensive plan of activities/>dates for program| <br3/>15/15
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| <brMeet with and propose ideas to advisors/>find venues| <br4/>1/15
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| <br/>Find venues and sponsors to host events| <br4/15/>15
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| <br/>| <br/>|-Finalize program| <br5/>| <br1/>15
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