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== Purdue University Strategic Priorities to Connect Students: ==
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The BoilerDriver is an initiative to connect BoilerMakers across different departments to enhance the Purdue Community and provide a mainstream method for student innovators to gain input from experts and share their output with the world. '''Our Model''' [[File:Bdi-logos.jpg|border|center|1000px|Objectives]] The BoilerDriver Initiative attempts to address three objectives with a proven model consisting of four components. Our primary objective is to connect students by helping them find the organization, entity, or mentor in the university. Our second objective is to render an environment that allows student innovators and entrepreneursto interact and maximize their productivity so that they can join multiple organizations or volunteer to mentor someone else without having a workload overflow. We believe that prioritization is key, however, BoilerDriver offers strategies to not only help students prioritize but save time. The third objective is for BoilerDriver to be a Purdue-endorsed mainstream way for student innovators to publicize their inventions throughout the university and with the world. These objectives are essential to establish the proper ambience of student innovation and entrepreneurship. To address these objectives, it is imperative that four components should be accessible to students.
<br/>The four essential components will be offered to students through the BoilerDriver Initiative:
BoilerDriver will serve as a mainstream way for students to share their inventions or productions with the university regardless of the project’s academic relation. Student Innovators may submit their project information through the BoilerDriver website. The BoilerDriver team will carefully evaluate the project validity and publicize the invention in relevant forms of media throughout the university. Optionally, if an invention is a major breakthrough, BoilerDriver should have the streamlined ability to empower the student innovator through Purdue’s resources in regards to national and international publicity.
'''Our Vision'''
We envision BoilerDriver Hub to act as the following:
1. A platform where student innovators are nurtured and motivated to pursue their entrepreneurial dream and develop technologies which have a broad scope and potential to become a big company rather than just licensing the technology to another company.
2. A space where passionate students work towards disrupting the existing industries and creating revolutionary and global products.
3. A platform which networks and connects departments, centers, investors, manufacturers and public with student innovators.
4. A workspace for student innovators to ideate, collaborate, innovate and develop products with a promising business potential.
5. A channel to beta test the prototypes developed by student innovators to gain consumer feedback and constructive criticism prior to market launch for increasing the success rate of the product/ process.
6. A place with an innovative and exciting culture for students, faculty and industry partners.
7. An organizer for quarterly business challenges and hackathon events.
8. A professional skills development provider. This is obtained by leveraging the talents of BDI student innovators and other collaborations.
9. A virtual guide for students who are either looking for other student innovators, investors or research projects.
10. A resource to find students with specific skills for research, technological development, creativity and presentations.
11. A platform to organize trips to tradeshows like Consumer Electronics Show (CES).