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As a student that needs a few credits to take care of an "Innovation Alliance 320" Course would be far more appealing than "Billiards 120"

= 4. Imagine the Future =

== Tactic #1 Critical Thinking Classes (Progressing) ==

'''Part #1: Hit the Ground Running- Student Driven Experience.'''

*Description: The sooner students realize that the faster they can get involved with the campus, potential employers, real world work and experience the more excited they will be about taking the bull by the horns to steer their desires in whichever way they want them to go. Many students dreaded the way their high school educations were conducted. In high school lots of people say, "When am I ever going to use this stuff?" Now is time! Unfortunately, many freshman students have no clue what they want to do with their lives, and others just need to follow the directions to the map they have made in their heads (minority of students). The catering to these "undecided" students is essential to change the mindset of what it is to experience college. (Not just going to parties) The basis of this tactic is to empower students to actively seek hands on skills in their choosen career path. This maybe in the form of jobs, volunteering, clubs, and other outgoing groups.*Team Leaders: UNIV 189 professors? Dorm RAs? People responsible for scheduling motivational speakers (Specifically for college students)? I placed question marks behind each of these leaders because this is just what comes to mind of people who would be able to aid in this tactic. Possibly more.*Milestones:**Support from potential team leaders.**Actually getting students to go to speakers, be active in clubs, take internships, and learn what they want to learn outside of the traditional classroom.**Students pressure higher-ups of the university to cater to their educational wants.**University and individual colleges alter curriculums.**Entire college culture is changed from "Partying" to "Let's do something for ourselves along with the world".

'''Part #2''': '''Classroom Driven Experience''' (Science Student Perspective)

*Description: Use critical thinking and problem solving educational tactics along with or after a traditional lecture class and lab is complete. Labs are where these problem solving strategies can be applied more. An additional lab course should be available that adheres to more of using what they learned in that lab and lecture in a more investigative/problem solving way. This critical thinking experience would come after the student has complete the previous course. The class would be structured around what I would say as mini-research experiments. The students would use previous knowledge to help guide themselves into theories and hypothesis of what they believe could be the answer to whatever they are working on. Then they would carry out experiments to tests these ideas. -A very rough outline on how the class would be structured.*Team Leaders: Jordan Brummond, "I have heard rumors of similar sounding classes that will be starting up soon in my department by - Janice Haggart. I also believe Dr. Angela Hodgson is in her second year of a similar class."*Milestones:**Curriculum Assessments.**Find evidence that students who take this class are more successful academically/professionally and provide it to the masses- Brings hype to the class.**Integrate into regular curriculum.**Faculty support from multiple departments.**Development of similar courses in other departments.

'''Part #3: Mentor Driven Experience'''

*Description: Having outside entrepreneurs, businesses, or research professors "take in" students as mentees/apprentices/interns. A good comparison would be like a "Big Brother, Big Sister" for students with drive and passion to get right out into the real world while they work on their degrees.*Team Leaders: TBD*Milestones:**Small number of mentors ready to pave the way.**Incorporate into already existing career fair.**More mentors view it as a recruitment tool to atrract the best and brightest students.**"Career fair" specifically as the recruitment tool.**Students rewarded for their work other than the experience.**Success stories as a recruitment tool for both students and new mentors.

== Tactic #2 Furthering I&E ==

Further strategies for future development of I&E on NDSU campus include

=== Acquire an Innovation Space (Progressing) ===

Providing students with a place 'with a sign on the door' designating it as purely a space for students to meet and hang out with innovative and entrepreneurial interests in mind will encourage and nourish the formation of ideas and student innovation teams/entrepreneurs, in no particular order. As rules can have a tendency to stifle innovation, the objective is to keep this space as free and open as possible, accessible to all majors and during as much of the day as is feasible.

While a room with a whiteboard is enough to get us started, I'd like to expand upon that as much as possible. I'm considering this a separate tactic as it involves going through different channels and asking for entirely different things from different people. The goal here is to network with as many higher-ups who support the movement as possible (many of whom have already been interviewed for the landscape canvas) and see what kind of extra equipment their department might be willing to lend. We're talking computers, Arduinos, soldering irons, scrap metal, hot glue guns.... anything not 'required' to run the I-space but would still contribute to its usefulness. More importantly, anything not nailed down! People resources are going in this tactic as well. The I-space will require a semi-regular pool of mentors, be they faculty, community leaders, or just motivate volunteers. The purpose of this group will be to offer more everyday advice and counsel than bringing in a speaker or holding an event.

== Provide Legal and Financial Assistant to I&E Teams (Progressing) ==

The author requests that you note the use of 'management' vs. 'protection.' Currently, there is little understanding amongst students that work they do that utilizes 'significant university resources' qualifies as university property. The native stance of the IP management system here is to''protect'' all IP generated, not to''manage and distribute'' it. We hope that, by working with the Tech Transfer Office and university higher-ups, a more transparent system can be developed... one that can be explained to students quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, the delivery system for getting the knowledge to students has to be structured in such a manner that it doesn't scare them off!  Barring the ability to get the TTO more involved in proactively assisting with student IP, we at least hope to provide students with a seminar, guide, etc... on what exactly the relationship between them, their work, and the university actually is.With this tactic, we're going to work closely with the NDSU research park and Tech Transfer Office to establish as best we can a formal step-by-step process for entreprenuers looking to start a business and/or license their own IP back from the university. Note that the point here is not to''constrain'' but to ''assist''. The purpose of the formal system is to allow rails for the students to follow along their journey- right now there is nothing in place to assist students in the early or middle stages of planning, for example. Late stage business-founding can be handled by the Research Incubator... but how do you know to contact them? That's precisely what we're going to fix. ''At the very least,'' this tactic will produce a flow chart of steps, people, and processes that have been succesful in the past for starting businesses at NDSU. == Tactic #3 Drone Focus == *Description: DroneFocus is an annual event that brings together leaders in the drone industry from all acorss the country for an all-day conference. A recap of of last year's (2015) event is available at https://vimeo.com/133365221. North Dakota is home to one of the leading Unmanned Arial System (UAS) hotspots in the nation. With industry leaders such as Botlink (https://botlink.com) and facilities such as the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (http://www.npuasts.com), North Dakota holds the resources, technologies, and networking opportunity to experience the regional and national state of the UAS atmosphere. Guest speakers, pitch events, and networking opportunities will be just a few of the events available to attendees. *Team Leaders: Ben Ferguson*Milestones:

= Tactic #3 In House Entrepeneurship Program (New Fall 2015) =

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