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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;">Depending on the program there may need to be significant support, both in terms of money and political willpower.</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 and the ability to tap into resources held by various departments and individuals. Creating pop-up classes, entrepreneurship competitions, new courses, TEDx events, and clubs often require funding, and building a contact list is useful in helping students acquire funding when one department may deny funding.</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-Stretching beyond the campus and off-campus faculty and businesses is vital for yields the chance to inform the success of current and future community about interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial work. Creating a database endeavors, drawing more to the growth of entrepreneurship and innovation on-campus connections allows . Businesses will often lend their advice or donate to school organizations. Learning from small business owners is important for young entrepreneurs, and hosting local speakers to communicate broad topics may result in increased involvement when working on such endeavorsexposure for interdiscplinary work.</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>