= <span style="color:#a9a9a9;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-63a692bd-d484-66b7-42fc-278186a37723"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[ACHIEVED] Priority #45: Summer Program</span></span></span> Increasing awareness of Design Thinking =
<span style=The term "color:#a9a9a9;Design Thinking"><span id="docs-internal-guid-63a692bd-d484-66b7-42fc-278186a37723"><span style="font-size: 14is virtually unknown at WashU. A lot of students set out to solve a problem by trying to tackle the whole thing at once.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students often lack large amounts A lot of the time during , it's important to pursue the steps of the school yeardesign thinking methodology to ensure an idea's success. Between classes and various extracurricular obligations In the beginning, you may have multiple ideas for how to go about solving a problem, they so it is a good practice to quickly provide a proof of concept to see which ideas are not able worth serious consideration. To this end, rapid prototyping is probably the most tangible and easiest way to make their startups a primary focusprovide this proof of concept. A summer program that pays "rapid-prototype-a-thon" in a public space with a low barrier to entry with a lot of WashU student participation will help students a stipend would allow cultivate an appreciation for how design thinking can help them . It's success may also help convince WashU to add additional resources to focus on their startups help with rapid prototyping and make far more progress than they could during design thinking paradigms. To convince people of the school year. Some entrepreneurship summer programs existvalue of design thinking, but they are not wide<span style="font-family:arialand to illustrate why design thinking is valued by big corporations and industry,helveticait's important that design thinking aligns with their goals and aspirations. We can bring in companies to give students problems for competitions,sans-serif;">ly</span> available for students seeking and link success in the competition to work on their own businessesfuture internships and similar rewards.</span></span></span>
= <span style="color:#a9a9a9;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-63a692bd-d484-66b7-42fc-278186a37723"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[ACHIEVED] Priority #4: Summer Program</span></span></span> =