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<parsererror style="display: block; white-space: pre; border: 2px solid #c77; padding: 0 1em 0 1em; margin: 1em; background-color: #fdd; color: black">=== This page contains the following errors: ===<div style="font-family:monospace;font-size:12px">error on line 1 at column 1320: attributes construct error <br/div>=== Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. ===</parsererrordiv>= UIF 2017<br/> WPI Project Pitch Video =
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{{#Widget:Youtube|id=h6vIsnLmb6I}} = <span id="docs-internal-guid-ba41bef4addd2406-ff19d3df-62c6ce59-867a78e0-7692a2682371fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 12pt14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">WPI LaunchPad (formerly Test Kitchen)</span></span> = = <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 style="font-weightsize: 700medium; "><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-family: Cambria, serif;">Create an online interface for students to promote, develop, and finalize projects and ideas (such as the project community Partner)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Strategy #1 <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: Centralize ICambria, serif;">Tap into the WPI MQP system by taking incompleted&E 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><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 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 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 to give prizes and help run event, also increasing student interest.</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;">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-size: 14.6667px; 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 optimal dissemination longevity and continuation in the future.</span></span></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 a low cost prototype of information 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 stakeholdersspotlight</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><spanid="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-size: 12pt14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Gauge campus response to video format</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-addd2406-d3df-ce59-78e0-fe7f11fb69d5"><span style="font-weightsize: 70014.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Use feedback to perfect the style of the videos</span></span>Create </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;">Utilize the platform to spread the word on events and update a database 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 I&E user friendly website for access to information about entrepreneurial resources on campus </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="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>##Design an efficient stream of sharing I<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 and design a survey to find out what students/faculty want to see implemented in the website. &E opportunities on 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 school's social media survey and communication channels brainstorm ideas for the layout of the website as well as information that will be shown. (May 2016 - June 2016)</span></span></li><li>##Encourage <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, professors and advisers with expertise in web design to begin to share resources 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 studentsthe 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>##Create I<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 party&E track accounts 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 guide 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 compensates students engagement create a contingency plan to implement changes in I&E initiatives 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 = [http://universityinnovation.org/Worcester%20Polytechnic%20Institute Worcester Polytechnic Institute] #'''Worcester Polytechnic Student Priorities''' University Innovation Fellows Spring 2016: [http://universityinnovation.org/Todd%20Alexander Todd Alexander] [http://universityinnovation.org/Norma%20Bachman Norma Bachman] [http://universityinnovation.org/Veda%20Booth Veda Booth] [http://universityinnovation.org/Rashid%20Chatani Rashid Chatani] [http://universityinnovation.org/Zack%20Ericson Zachary Ericson] [http://universityinnovation.org/Derek%20Feehrer Derek Feehrer] [http://universityinnovation.org/Alex%20Markoski Alex Markoski] [http://universityinnovation.org/Clara%20Merino Clara Merino][http://universityinnovation.org/Vinny%20Sabo Vincent Sabo]</li></ol> [[Category:Student Priorities|w]]
