<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Depending on the program there may need to be significant support, both in terms of money and political willpower.</span>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Establishing connections with both on-campus and off-campus faculty and businesses is vital for the success of current and future interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial work. Creating a database of on-campus connections allows for increased involvement when working on such endeavors.</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-085cd4e3-5cfc-623d-e9a0-f25e6de141e4"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span> <span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collins aims to engage first-year students through the university’s Office of Orientation and Student Success with orientation sessions and campus tours. During TTU’s Week of Welcome, she plans to present opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship on TTU’s campus to incoming freshmen.Through generous givers and making use of connections with shared interests, Abby has been able to get her idea up and running. In addition to contacts she reached out to locally, Abby received assistance from Holly Stretz, her faculty mentor and chemical engineering professor.</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-085cd4e3-5cfc-623d-e9a0-f25e6de141e4"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Local entrepreneurs who have set up their own start ups have reached out to Abby and provided her with the necessary advice and funding to promote entrepreneurship at TTU.</span></span>