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=== <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">The Problem</span> ===
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">There are limited environments on campus for students to innovate, design, and participate in hands on projects. However college campuses can offer a unique combination of living learning communities with access to a large number students, alumni, faculty, board members, and other resources. University Innovation Fellow Valerie Sherry of University of Maryland, desired to create a community for students who desired hands on projects in real world applications. </span>
=== <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">First Steps </span> ===
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Before launching a new type of community, group, or space there needs to be a desire, want or need for a new community. At the University of Maryland, many Architecture students desired to be apart of something larger than their classes, something that involved hands on applications in a real life setting. This started a movement towards an entrepreneurial group to improve innovation at their college. With word of mouth and many brain storming meeting, they found that many students from different backgrounds had a desire to pursue their ideas but did not know where to start. </span>
=== <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The Plan</span> ===
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Many projects came about by word of mouth between other majors on campus such as a cross design for “Books Breaking Boarders” where there was a need for a book cover design. The support from other departments at the university was extremely important for getting projects like these. </span>
=== <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Keeping the Interest </span> ===
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Keeping the desire and interest of the students and faculty is an on going challenge. Some helpful ideas to keep the fire burning would be to keep an playful environment, students want to be hands on (Fun little Projects), and give the students what they want. </span>
=== <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Other Tips </span> ===
*<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Don’t ask for permission just do it </span>
*<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Leadership training </span>
*<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Use Faculty Professors to navigate and help make a decisions</span>
=== Additional Resources ===
1. Hear Valerie Sherry's ignite talk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt6OXskd1jc&t=3s the time when she spoke at Google], or
2. When she spoke [https://vimeo.com/129708050 at the OPEN 2015 conference for faculty].
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