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==== <span style="font-size: 12px;">Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)</span><br/> ====

*<span style="font-size: 12px;">“Design Tent” would be either a day session or weekend maker session where students from any discipline can come together, play around with ideas, start forming teams and rapidly prototype their ideas</span>

*<span style="font-size: 12px;">What better way to raise awareness among students that they, too, can be involved with I & E than by INSPIRING! “Ideas worth spreading”</span>

*<span style="font-size: 12px;">The purpose of this faculty workshop is to promote and instill the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation in the classroom. The goal is that their inspiration filters down to students!</span>

*<span style="font-size: 12px;">This program is meant to spark interest amongst students who may not feel they have the time to “be involved” with entrepreneurship and design thinking during their regular semester. It is also for students wishing to gain a design thinking and entrepreneurial mindset and skillset through applied learning. The structure of the 15 day course would be oriented towards design idea incubation, prototyping or fabrication and pitching your idea to external critics.</span>

*<span style="font-size: 12px;">Maker spaces should and could be available for ALL students! Think of the invention and spark that could happen if we as students knew physical spaces where we could go to test our new ideas. This program leverages existing resources and spaces and would provide assistance for finding or making physical space for new startups. Students would be able to search through an online platform and mobile app that connects individual students and student groups with available immediate, temporary, short and long-term spaces. The program and task team would have documented a network of spaces on campus and their availability, which could be seen through a map interface on the system. If no space exists, students can contact mDIL (Maryland Design Impact Lab) and request a task team to design a temporary flex-space. This method would thereby provide a need and direction for students looking for innovation space that may not be part of an existing start up, or part of the Engineering or business school. In addition, this service will also give mDIL interdisciplinary design teams the opportunity to practice applying their developing ideation, fabrication and implementation skillsets to address a need.</span>

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