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<li>Early semester: UFund widely available resource for UF organizations, discuss with stakeholders any next steps possible</li>

<li>Late semester: Begin next UFund initiative based on stakeholder feedback</li>

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<li>Freshmen Engineering Internship Program Point Fellow: Natalie DeVarona</li>

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<li>Plan: Introduce COE students and resources to existing events and programs in CEI. Rather than “inventing the wheel” in 2 different colleges/departments, collaborate to have cross-functional workings between students and faculty.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">

<li>Introduce Fellow Daniel Kleinman’s idea “UFund” Crowdfunding Platform to further motivate cross-functional collaboration between COE and CEI.</li>

<li>Once collaboration between COE and CEI in place, begin to invite Levin College of Law and College of Health and Sciences, respectively to grow cross-functional workings in existing programs.</li>

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<li>Timeline<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">

<li>Spring 2015<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; list-style-type: lower-alpha;">

<li>Early semester: Complete UIF training session to graduate to Fellow; Canvas entire E&I efforts ongoing at the University of Florida.</li>

<li>Later semester: Complete business model for COE & CEI collaboration. Market existing CEI events to engineering students. Recruit potential Fellows to join UF’s Leadership Circle</li>

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<li>Early Semester: Organize and further develop collaboration of E&I existing programs. Utilize UFund program to incentivize this collaboration.</li>

<li>Later Semester: Have cross-functional teams and organizations utilize UFund to fund start-ups and organizational E&I programs.</li>

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<li>Spring 2016<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; list-style-type: lower-alpha;">

<li>Early Semester: Open conversation for cross-functional courses between COE and CEI.</li>

<li>Later Semester: Introduce other colleges (i.e. Law and Health and Sciences) to E&I existing efforts to broaden cross-functional work.</li>

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<li>Early Semester: Paradigm shift of having E&I efforts as a university-wide/ cross-functional program rather than compartmentalized programs/events.</li>

<li>Late Semester: Use model at University of Florida to aid other universities and Fellows.</li>

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3. Freshmen Engineering Internship Program Point Fellow: Jasmine Perez

<li>Plan:Create an early internship program with local startups will help expose students to innovation and gain practical skills early on in their college careers.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">

<li>Create partnerships with local businesses and start ups</li>

<li>Distribution channels through the engineering college and the UIFresh initiative.</li>

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<li>Timeline<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">

<li>Early Semester: Organize and plan the program from the application process to reaching out to local companies to probe for interest.</li>

<li>Later Semester: Have a list of potential companies on board for the program to be rolled in future semesters</li>

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<li>Spring 2016<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; list-style-type: lower-alpha;">

<li>Early Semester: Open first round of applications, needs backing from marketing,</li>

<li>Later Semester: Evaluate first round of program participants.</li>

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<li>Early Semester: Build from previous application round to increase number of participants and make improvements on the program.</li>

<li>Late Semester: Expansion of program to other colleges and continuation of building partners with local companies</li>

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