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= HOW TO CREATE A CROSS-CAMPUS STUDENT INNOVATION COUNCIL =

New mindset, not perfect prototypes are okay

How to get change done on campus

Networking with students with similar views on UIF

== Student Innovation Council: ==
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Started out as Student Engineering Council (attended meeting for different majors to come and meet)
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During freshman year, council didn’t survive because senior project focus
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Stuck around when organization was restarted and saw various failings
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“What’s the purpose of doing this and why am I spending extra time doing this?” (other people)
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Wanted to incorporate senior design with other majors, but found that lacking
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Joined UIF to find people to start the group with like mindsets
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A place for people to come together, share their ideas and bring them to fruition
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Have to build bonds to bring people together
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== Thomas: ==
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Wanted to bring in business aspect to everything they did
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Saw Briana’s idea as a good idea
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First idea was to bring senior design projects and bringing other majors into those
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== Resources required: ==
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Need people
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Don’t need a lot of money
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Cool meeting space
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Thomas had a space in business incubator for them
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Most money spent is on food for bringing people into meetings
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Pool people from different organizations so their resources can be used
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Social media
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Persistence
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Developing a mission and identifying the objective
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Be welcoming of people and inviting of their ideas and time giving
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Having like-minded people to form a support network
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Time and motivation
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Cheap to no cost
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Like UIF (a bunch of students together to think about problems)
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Looking at other clubs having overlap (ie. multiple resume building workshops)
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== Specific resources: ==
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Location to meet
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One person in charge and the rest to listen
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Identify all students with mentality to go above and beyond
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Having a time where all people can meet
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What would you like done on campus that isn’t being done yet
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Take two or three ideas that click and that motivates people
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Needs energy
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Fun activity (builds personal connections)
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Games with sticky notes (game show type things, play cards, etc.)
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Fun activity at first, do business, and go over takeaways
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== Major challenges: ==
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Need to have a perfect reason to bring people together
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What more can we do and how do we keep them coming back?
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Thought she had to do it all by herself
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Pay attention to the first followers
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Will demotivate you if you look at everyone in the organization (some will not agree)
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Communicating with people constantly (sends messages through Facebook and email)
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Students you will find are people dedicating a bunch of time on projects
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Getting people to understand the organization is a group of like-minded people getting together
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== Accomplishments: ==
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Successfully run an engineering network on the university
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Brought people from 14+ organizations to collaborate
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Speed mentoring event held with an organization
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A bunch of small events put on by people coming together and talking through the council that would not exist without it
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Allowed Briana to get collaborators and ideas for her senior design project
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== Methods of creating cross-campus council: ==
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Different methods for every school
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What works at one university might not work at another
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At Thomas’ university:
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Reaching out to students and targeting people and professors to get the information out
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Could reach out to other people using various methods
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Speed interviewing, hosting events, speed mentoring, etc.
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Be as creative as you want with your ideas and have fun with it
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Each student paired up with an engineer and casually talking about engineering (speed mentoring event)
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Could use a sign in sheet at the beginning so people can be able to communicate with people better
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== How to run the council: ==
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No correct way to run the council
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Tried to get everyone together
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Scheduled a once a month or once every month meeting
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From there, let go and see what happens
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Run through some tutorials in design thinking
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If it was made hierarchical, then the fun would be lost in the organization
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Can drive you insane sometimes since there is no set agenda
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Need to identify someone as the leader in the group
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Leader need to reach out to people and make them feel welcome
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Have to care for the organization (hear members’ voices)
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Pinpoint where exactly you want the group to spend energy on
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Need to narrow down with leadership group on direction
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Too many ideas causes less progress
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== Challenges: ==
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Getting people to come (especially new people)
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First meeting is the hardest challenge
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Executive board of all organizations change each year
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Trying to get everyone involved
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Not going to win everyone over, but try to get as much as you can going
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== Motivation: ==
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Briana: enjoys helping people, something university needed, something that could be bigger than us and impactful; the peoples’ stories and motivations and empathizing with them; inspirational and special people in group; care about helping others
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Thomas: still engineering heavy, gets to see different perspectives outside business, identifying the differences between engineers, opened eyes across the rest of university and the problems it faced
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Srikanth Yadavalli

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