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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Introduction</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Creating an innovation space at your school is a great way to garner a student’s innovation and creativity. Our goal is to create a space that students can feel as though their ideas will be supported, where failure is not looked at as the worst thing that could happen, but instead is a good learning experience. We want students to be able to have the confidence to unlock the innovators inside them, and give them the confidence to go forward and be leaders in the classroom as well as in their professional careers when they leave school. That’s why a space like this is important to your school’s ecosystem. This space should be designed so the students can interact with each other and work collaboratively very easily.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The next step would be your goal. What do you hope to achieve with this space, how are you impacting student’s, does this idea take care of the need that you have identified? Once you have a clear goal in mind as well as a need identified it’s time to make this a reality. How do we go about this? &nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Location</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A bottom up approach rather than going straight to the top is just one method that could be used however. Depending on the school’s infrastructure another approach might be best. Another thing to consider, is that you must be willing to compromise with the people in charge. Don’t be so unwilling to budge on any of your ideas that you end up losing support and losing a great thing for your school and the students in it. &nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Funding</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Materials</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Recruit other students, ask them what they want, ask them what helps them when they’re on their own to be creative. On another note, think about what helps you to be creative. I think we have all heard about Google’s offices...nap pods, couches, people eating on ping pong tables, riding bikes through the office and so forth. Also try to provide as much as access to visualization as possible, this will create an environment to create and give students a better option to express themselves. 3D printers, TV screens, projectors, white boards, big craft papers, foam, scissors, crayons, play dough and etc! Anything you can think of! With your budget that may not be possible, but you get the idea. Think about what makes people comfortable, and get them creative including yourself, and go from there.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e85312a-6749-81f7-0185-bec8e5aa5abd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Now you’ve got everything in place to get this going so the next step is making students aware! You have the opportunity to go on your first marketing campaign! Social media, fliers around campus, email announcements, you have everything you need at your fingertips to get word out about your project. If you have clubs on campus for innovation and entrepreneurship that’s a great place to start. Get the word out to individuals in this group and see how quickly the fire will spread. Contact your school and get them to send out an email announcement, ensuring that news of your space will reach every student in school. Connect with them on facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin, flickr! Whatever you can think of! Once word is out and you’ve got things all setup it’s time to watch it take off. Be proud of your accomplishment, you’ve done it!</span></span>