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= <span style="font-size:x-large;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span><br/> =
<span style="font-size:larger;">Wofford College has a number of programs that are designed to aid students with entrepreneurial goals. The SPACE, for instance, is a department whose goal is to work with students to help them develop professional skills and work on transforming innovative ideas into projects or businesses. Two of the programs in the The SPACE, The Space to Impact and The Space to Launch, work together to elaborate on these project and business ideas. During each spring semester, Impact and Launch students engage in the Impact and Launch Competition, a Shark Tank styled competition where ten students--five from Impact and five from Launch--pitch their project or business ideas to a panel of judges and investors. The winners of the event (one from Impact and one from Launch) receive various prizes, such as capital, networking contacts, and office space, in order to help them in their endeavours.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">The Leadership Circle at Wofford College is also trying to make more available the tools that are necessary for innovation. Cole McCarty is working with The SPACE to develop a Makerspace, which students (and faculty) will be able to use for prototyping, design, and 3D modeling. The Makerspace would have such equipment as a 3D printer, which Wofford already has, lazer cutters, computers equiped with modelling software, and more.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;"></span><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">Below is a description of The SPACE mentioned above, which is the heart of innovation and entrepreneurship encouragement at Wofford.</span>
== <span style="font-size:21px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The SPACE</span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The SPACE at Wofford College <span style="font-size:larger;"></span> is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore.</span>
=== <span style="font-size:17px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Space to Prepare</span> ===