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{{#Widget:Youtube|id=h6vIsnLmb6I}} = <span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406ba41bef4-d3dfff19-ce5962c6-78e0867a-fe7f11fb69d57692a2682371"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">WPI LaunchPad (formerly Test Kitchen)</span></span> =<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt12pt;"><li><span style="font-sizeweight:medium700;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">6-8 tangible milestones</span></span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Add underclassmen to the team of “Flight Crew” to ensure the longevity of the organization and continued involvement in efforts to improve the university</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Establish a community of at least 500 students before the Foisie Innovation Studio is finished</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Develop a number of self-sustaining teams</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Establish a consistent schedule of meetings with the general body and community</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-familyStrategy #1 : Cambria, serif;">Create an online interface for students to promote, develop, and finalize projects and ideas (such as the project communityCentralize I&nbsp;Partner)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Give students the chance to learn how to integrate Scrum Agile Business Practices into WPI curriculum and projects</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Tap into the WPI MQP system by taking incompleted&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">or projects in an early stage of development and supplying the team</span>s.</span></li></ol></li></ol> = <span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">WPI Pitch Competition</span></span> =<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tangible Milestones</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Garner interest within the faculty to find a faculty sponsor.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Use new faculty E resources to organize test event with the student activities office.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Find local on campus sponsors to get prizes to offer students in the first event to excite them and increase participation</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">During the first event have a successful WPI alumni (in the business field) talk about successful pitches, and what they are composed ensure optimal dissemination of</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">After initial trial, seek out larger more well known corporate sponsors information to give prizes and help run event, also increasing student interest.stakeholders</span></span></li><li>##<span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hold full scale event, with marketing from WPI to get the word out to students</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-sizeweight: 14.6667px700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Look for full scale support and sponsorship from the school of business in order to ensure longevity and continuation in the future.</span></span></li></ol>​</li></ol></li></ol>  <ol start="3" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Centralized Promotion of Campus Innovation Using Video</span></span> =<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tangible Milestones</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Create and update a low cost prototype database of the site</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Identify first groups and events to spotlight</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Produce first videos and share through different channels</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Gauge I&E resources on campus response to video format</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Use feedback to perfect the style ##Design an efficient stream of sharing I&E opportunities on the videos</span></span></li>school's social media and communication channels <li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Utilize the platform to spread the word on events ##Encourage staff, professors and other opportunities on campus</span></span></li></ol></li></ol></li><li>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Creation of user friendly website for access advisers to information about entrepreneurial share resources on campus</span></span> =with students<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tangible Milestones</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Continue Cataloging all entrepreneurship as started in the UIF Program (April 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Obtain WPI Institutional Review board permission to use a survey to gather information (April 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">##Create I&E track accounts that guide and design a survey to find out what compensates students/faculty want to see implemented engagement in the website. I&nbsp;(May 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Analyze the data from the survey and brainstorm ideas for the layout of the website as well as information that will be shown. (May 2016 - June 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Speak to professors/staff with expertise in web design to begin to develop a schematic for the creation of the website. (June 2016 - July 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Work with the Computer Science Department to use seniors to help build the website and count their progress towards their senior year project. (August 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Beta test and debug the website using a small student population (March 2017)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Launch the website and have a launch partyE initiatives&nbsp;:) . (May 2017)</span></span></li></ol></li></ol></li><li>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Professor Evaluation database to assess active learning techniques utilized in the classroom.</span></span> =<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tangible Milestones</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Obtain WPI Institutional Review board permission to use a survey to gather information(April 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Design a survey to assess the levels of active learning used by professors in their respective classes. (May 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Analyze the data and identify key areas that could use improvement. (June 2016-August 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Form a student led group to lobby for the use of active learning techniques in the classroom (September 2016 - November 2016)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Meet with the head of each department to discuss the findings and create a contingency plan to implement changes in the curriculum. (December 2016- January 2017)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Design an action plan to get other professors involved with the committee and provide them with the resources they need to learn more about active learning. (May 2017)</span></span></li></ol></li></ol></li><li>= Related Links = [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute|Worcester Polytechnic Institute]] '''Worcester Polytechnic Student Priorities''' University Innovation Fellows Spring 2016: [[Todd Alexander|Todd Alexander]] [[Norma Bachman|Norma Bachman]] [[Veda Booth|Veda Booth]] [[Rashid Chatani|Rashid Chatani]] [[Zack Ericson|Zachary Ericson]] [[Derek Feehrer|Derek Feehrer]] [[Alex Markoski|Alex Markoski]] [[Clara Merino|Clara Merino]] [[Vinny Sabo|Vincent Sabo]] [[Category:Student Priorities|w]]#