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<br/>The four essential components will be offered to students through the BoilerDriver Initiative:
=== '''Website and Social Network''' ===
The primary component that facilitates the achievement of the aforementioned three objectives is the BoilerDriver website. The website allows Purdue students to sign-up as a member and search for clubs, departments, and mentors with in a particular field or industry. The website also gives student innovators the ability to get recognition and publicity for their breakthrough inventions and allows for an exclusive showcase of undergraduate and graduate projects. Finally, the website serves as a system that allows any Purdue students to connect with their peers through instant messaging forproject collaboration. This system allows student to keep in touchwith multiple clubs or programs to address the concern of conflicting schedules.
=== '''Workspace''' ===
The BoilerDriver workspace is an essential physical area that allows student innovators to privately meet to collaborate on approved projects. This space is provided primarily to give student innovators a place to work on their projects and store them securely. The workspace provides all common necessities used for rapid prototype and software development. BoilerDriver will also offer all modern computing platforms and electronic platforms to help innovators enhance their projects. All the website, community, and publicity related tasks are managed at the root of the BoilerDriver foundation: the workspace.
=== '''Community''' ===
A significant component that theBoilerDriver Initiative offers to Purdue students are the mentors and experts (Innovation Fellows) who makes up the community. Similar to a club, the BoilerDriver community comprises of officers such as the President, Vice President, Admin Assistant, etc. However, BoilerDriver Initiative will nominate a group of students to become ambassadors of student innovations each semester. This group is also referred to as the Innovation Fellows. Typical candidates for Innovation Fellows include students, professors, staff, and alumni who are professional innovators or have a passion to become a mentor. The community grows rapidly each semester. As a result, students (especially freshmen) will appreciate the ease of finding information about mentors available in the community through the BoilerDriver website.
=== '''Publicity''' ===
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 the BoilerDriver Hub to act as the following: