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~~Sample text~~'''Recruiting:''' '''''' '''''' '''Resources Needed:''' '''''' '''''' '''Fun Activity:''' '''''' == What an innovation council can accomplish: == Developing an innovation council on your campus can attribute to many new developments for the campus as a whole. It can unite people to a common cause, bring new insights to people across the campus, allow various majors and disciplines to connect and understand one another, and provide events that may not have existed without the council. Not only that, the council can allow students to unlock their entrepreneurial spirits and collaborate with fellow students in order to accomplish change for their school and their community. '''Uniting students:''' Students, when they enter college, tend to find themselves entering social cliches, spreading out to various clubs, or keeping to themselves because nothing in particular peaks their interest. Students also tend to find it difficult to relate to and connect with people outside of their major. This could be attributed to having a lot of classes under a particular major, or from students believing that those in other majors wouldn't be able to understand them or have an appreciation for their focus. However, none of that matters with an innovation council. The purpose is not to find specific majors to bring into the organization, but to reach out to all students and bring in their ideas. It doesn't matter if a student is an English major, a business major, an engineer, or even an artist. Everyone has ideas on how their lives can be improved and how they can improve the world around them. There is no such thing as a bad idea, and the more ideas you have at your disposal, the more the innovation club can accomplish. Involving everyone and seeing what types of ideas everyone has on how they can improve their school or the community allows people to see others who have similar ideas and beliefs. This allows students to then be able to connect with those they may not have thought they would have otherwise and strive for a goal. '''New perspectives:''' ''''''An innovation council is capable of bringing in a large number of students from various backgrounds and having them connect with each other. Normally, students in specific majors tend to socialize and connect more with those solely in their major. It's just easier to get along with someone who has similar ideas. However, an innovation council is capable of uniting people to a single objective, bringing in people from various backgrounds into the team. These people are then able to share their ideas and specialized knowledge to contribute to the objective they seek to complete. In this manner, engineers can understand more of a business perspective and vice versa. Having people from various backgrounds brings new ideas and new perspectives to the council as a whole. '''Planning events for students:''' An innovation council is made to bring new ideas to the school and to serve students and other organizations on the campus. Sometimes, more than one club could be holding an event of the same type on campus (ie. resume building). As such the innovation council could work together with those clubs to bring together one large workshop for students rather than having numerous individual workshops scattered across the campus on various days. This brings more students together and creates a more efficient network for the school. Events made specifically to benefit the student body can also be planned by the innovation council. At the Florida Institute of Technology, for instance, the council there organized a partnership with an industry to bring professional engineers to the campus to talk with students in an event called "speed mentoring." This event is similar to speed dating in the way that students are given time to sit down with as many engineers as they would like to talk to and learn more about career options and what working in industry is like. '''Encouraging innovation among students:''' The entire purpose of an innovation council is to spur students to develop innovative skills and collaborate with peers to accomplish specific goals. This is accomplished by first getting students together and generating ideas among them. From these ideas, students are able to pick the ones they like the most and feel could have the greatest impact and work with other members to flesh out the idea. Students also are able to learn various things from the backgrounds of other members of their team and see what it is like to be able to make something happen. == Challenges after getting started: == ''''''(Put a brief intro) '''Keeping Students Involved:''' '''''' '''''' '''Keeping the ideas running:''' '''''' '''''' '''People will leave naturally:''' '''''' '''Communicating with members:''' '''''' == How to run an innovation council: == (Put a brief intro) '''Scheduling:''' '''''' '''Assigning a Leader:''' '''''' '''''' '''''''''Hearing out members:''' '''''' '''''' '''Narrowing Down Ideas (Focus Areas):''' '''''' '''''' == Other examples of innovation councils: == (Put a brief intro) (List places and summarize what they have done)

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