Changes

One group was successfully chosen to participate and was very successful at the CGI meeting last spring. One UIF member was part of the winning team in the Hackathon. We are hoping to build upon this success this year.

NDSU had recently begun to bring regional professionals and entreprenuers onto campus on a monthly basis called, Career Conversations, and its attendance has been abysmal. The value in a stysem like this could be increadible for opening minds, exposing new trends in the business environment to students and also simply networking, yet very few students attend. The system is flawed but the idea is there. I new method would be to change venues base on the department or realm that the speaker is based around, and also chaning the mentality. A one hour lecture over a student's lunch is not an ideal manner, for either the student or the professional, yet having it at the tail end of a small intese course would gain results.