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= SPRING 2017 PRIORITIES =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAkAHf1uqUk&feature=youtu.be Pitch Video]

= BRIDGING THE CURRENT GAP BETWEEN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES OFFERED AT TTU & TTU'S PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS =

One way I will help bridge this gap will be by exposing psychology students to virtual reality and explaining the new presence it has taken in the field of psychology. After talking with several students, I found that not one was aware of this new method of therapy using virtual reality for patients of all kinds. Students did find it very interesting and I feel this is a great way to get psychology student's foot in the door of I&E. Virtual reality has been used for exposure therapy to help patients conquer fears of flying, test-taking anxiety, panic attacks, arachnophobia, anxiety disorders, and even ADHD, but is not limited to this list. A lot of students, including myself, didn't know or only knew about a few I&E resources our campus offers at a surface level. I believe opening up this opportunity to psychology students to learn about this subfield and virtual reality will spark the flame of I&E awareness and involvement for my target population, psychology ~~students~~ students who currently have little to no involvement with the I&E community.

Whereas, we are obviously not certified counselors or psychologists and cannot actually perform these kinds of therapies. I do believe making students aware of this subfield within psychology and giving them direct opportunities to interact with virtual reality will be a big step toward our leadership circle's goals of breaking down academic silos and connecting passion and education with career through innovation and entrepreneurship.

= '''STUDENT PRIORITY #2: Caroline Timpson''' =

One of the huge hurdles students face when trying to build their own business, or change the conversation about something, is not having the right tools or knowledge. That inspired my goal. So What I want to change in I&E for students, is creating a class to help teach coding to non-computer science majors. The class would focus on app development and html. You may be thinking, Why this specific class, when you could easily just take an intro to Computer science? By focusing on specific entrepreneurial hurdles that students run into such as building a website for their product, this class becomes a channel to empower students in the I&E community. It introduces students to a “scary thing” through an elective, fostering a low pressure atmosphere to encourage failure, and mistakes, so that students can get a deeper understanding and learn more. Learning to code is great practice for precise, disciplined, and abstract thinking. Programming transforms a computer from something you use to do basic tasks into a power tool. It allows students to take what the they have and take it to their job or even create their own path.

= '''STUDENT PRIORITY #3: Justin Medley''' =

= STUDENT PRIORITY #2A: JACQUELINE SCHULZ (REPLACED, SEE #2B) =

== '''INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION & LONG-TERM AVENUES FOR I&E PURSUIT''' ==

=== AVAILABLE RESOURCES ===

= STUDENT PRIORITY #2B: JACQUELINE SCHULZ =

== '''RUSH UIF BEGINNING OF THE YEAR EVENT SERIES[[File:RushUIFlogo Purple.png|frame~~|RushUIFlogo Purple.png~~]]''' ==

RUSH UIF is a four part event series which seeks to expose students to Innovation & Entrepreneurship in fun and exciting ways and increase student awareness of the underlying prevalence of Innovation & Entrepreneurship in our culture today. Each event is very different from the last, targeting a different reason or avenue for I&E involvement. This year's series took place August 29th, 2016 - September 1st, 2016.

= STUDENT PRIORITY #3: NICK RUSSELL =

== '''FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY CONNECTIONS 'DESIGN THINKING COLLEGE' COURSE''' ==

Through our investigation of the I&E ecosystem on our campus, a dichotomy began to emerge in which I saw a divergence between those who viewed the design thinking process as valuable in itself and those who viewed it as a means to developing technology. Tennessee Tech has done an admirable job  building out the infrastructure which could support creating technology or a company, but has room to grow in terms of developing an I&E culture.

[[Alicen long|Alicen Long]]

[[~~Caroline_Millin~~Caroline Millin|Caroline Timpson]]

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