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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.

</span>'''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.

'''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: ==

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