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In 2013, the University of Maryland took the time to create an innovation center of their own, now called the [http://innovation.umd.edu/ Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center], to benefit their student community. Unfortunately, the students didn’t know what it would be used for and assumed that it was just another building dedicated as a campus incubator or site for seed-funding. Yet fortunately, Meenu was not only a Fellow but a member of UMD’s student government, meaning that she was both tasked with aiding in the designing of the center and was led with her passion for higher education and the need to revolutionize the student curriculum. Her first actions along with 19 other students and a mentor (who specialized in human centered innovation), were to implement the Design Thinking Process.

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To hear from students that didn’t know if I&E was for them was eye opening.” Clearly the problem had been identified; the need for an element that promoted and supported creative thought needed to be formed. <~~br/~~span>~~The team immediately took their findings back to the center’s administrative board to implement the second phase:~~ ~~generation of~~ The team immediately took their findings back to the center’s administrative board to implement the ~~idea/solution~~second phase: .<generation of the idea/~~span>~~solution~~ ~~~~Once the problem is defined such information has to be used to then guide the solution~~. ~~. 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That not only includes designing something that tends to certain necessities but the production of the resources needed ~~in order~~ to ~~do so~~implement the solutions as well.~~ ~~~~Together they finalized the goal to introduce both innovation and entrepreneurship to UDM’s students by working with faculty to reshape their curriculum~~ <span style="font-size: 14. ~~Which would be done by giving their students the ability to take classes that are project based~~6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, ~~making sure to transcend any normative <span style="font~~0); background-~~size~~color: ~~14.6667px~~transparent; ~~font~~vertical-~~family~~align: ~~Arial~~baseline; ~~color~~white-space: ~~rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre~~pre-wrap;">~~book-report-esque<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0~~With UDM’s student government and the center’s administration board having direct access to funding and materials, Meenu’s team presented their findings and initial ideas, 0highlighting their peers concerns regarding their creative confidence and competence, ~~0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">research tendencies, by embedding the very same designing thinking process throughout the DNA of~~ in order to ultimately collaborate on what their ~~courses. Together, the idea of allowing their students~~ new innovation center could provide and find what was needed in order to ~~be mentored by innovative coaches was born~~do so. <~~br/~~span>~~That collaboration successfully led to the final~~ ~~realization<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0~~Together they finalized the goal to introduce both innovation and entrepreneurship to UDM’s students by working with faculty to reshape their curriculum. Which would be done by giving their students the ability to take classes that are project based, making sure to transcend any normative ~~element of the design process. Such a phase is made up of~~ book-report-esque~~continually producing great prototypes and testing<span style="font-size~~research tendencies, by embedding the very same designing thinking process throughout the DNA of their courses. Together, the idea of allowing their students to be mentored by innovative coaches was born. That collaboration successfully led to the final realizationelement of the design process. Such a phase is made up of continually producing great prototypes and testing. For the team, that meant putting their resources (money, faculty, departments) to use in producing their idea of restructuring their courses and being able to consistently reflect on their progress. <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: ~~14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent~~italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~~. For the team, that meant putting~~ To innovate their ~~resources (money, faculty, departments) to use in producing their idea of restructuring their courses and being able to consistently reflect on their progress.~~ innovation! ~~To innovate their innovation! Having produced UDM’s fourth cohort, Meenu and her team have gone through noticing that students respond better with peers as their coaches than faculty. Carefully determining how the students that were to become peer innovative coaches (or PICs) were to be compensated and figuring out methods of PIC training and key timelines. All by actively being a part of the process and reflecting throughout the PIC experience. Today, Meenu looks forward to expanding the program and “getting PICs integrated more into helping the faculty with forming the projects” in order to aid their on-the-groundperspective.

Now, the University of Maryland has an extremely admirable two-semester-long training that students take in order to understand the design thinking process, take on the mindsets that are conducive to innovation, and see that in order to truly be able to be influential a peer innovation coach must be a coach (an individual who guides and works alongside students) rather than an advisor (an individual that just instructs and solely helps the faculty). The result leads to a vast amount of students gaining creative competence from their peers and now knowing what to do with ideas that could impact their communities and eventually the world!

~~~~(Here’s their [http://innovation.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PIC-Role-Description-and-Application-1.pdf PIC application]!) #include all of the app pics here

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