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== Strategy II: Promoting Social Ventures ==

== Project Idea: Create an advising space for students interested in social entrepreneurship ==

== ~~<span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family~~Target Audience: ~~Arial; color: rgb(0~~Students from Arts and Sciences. School of Public Health, ~~0, 0)~~School of Social Work who are currently somewhat excluded from the Innovation landscape on campus.  ~~background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy II: UIFresh activities~~ ==

~~===~~ Strategy III~~Tactic A~~: ~~Hands on Design Thinking Intro Activity~~UIFresh activities ~~===~~

=== ~~Research~~Tactic A:Hands on Design Thinking Intro Activity===

~~Look into what other schools are doing with their UIFresh programs for inspiration, ideas, and leverage when pitching.~~Research:

Look into what other schools are doing with their UIFresh programs for inspiration, ideas, and leverage when pitching. Develop:

<li>Use the resources developed in the previous strategy to design workshops for Orientation week</li><li>Make lists of resources and materials needed for these activities (in conjunction with the floating design thinking lab?)</li>

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=== Tactic B: Intro to the I&E Landscape Tour ===

Develop a “tour” of sorts for freshmen students to get familiar with all the resources they have on campus

Milestone 1: What resources?

Use the I&E Landscape and find the hot spot resources on campus. Parent organizations like Innovation Institute that host a lot of smaller activities that may not be beneficial for all freshman to know about, or organizations that would lead to other resources once involved.

Categorize the resources we have and which ones are most broadly applicable to freshmen

Milestone 2: What do the freshmen know?

Do interviews and surveys to see what quality resources the University has that freshmen don’t know about, and think they would use now that they do know about them.

Milestone 3: Put together a program

<li>Analyze interview data and determine what information needs to be conveyed.</li><li>Ideate ways to present the information</li><li>Plan out solution with support from leaders and stakeholders, including what they think is important</li>

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=== Implementation ===

=== Working with Administration and Orientation Staff ===

<li>Get approval and financial support from stakeholders to hold these events</li><li>Meet with Orientation planners to work out details of space, times, mandatory vs. optional, and ways to reach the whole campus.</li>

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== Strategy ~~III~~IV: Encouraging Transportation Innovation ==

=== Tactic A: Develop cooperative sustainable transportation space ===

Pittsburgh’s recent adoption of a 10 year plan to drastically expanding sustainable transportation infrastructure put it on track to become one of the most bike friendly cities in the country. Oakland residents are interested in participating in shaping the way transportation initiatives develop in this city.

Currently, the University of Pittsburgh provides little support for students opting to take advantage of sustainable transportation modes. While many neighborhoods throughout the city have activated local cyclists and pedestrians, Pitt has failed to engage its student population in these discussions.

In order to accomplish this goal, a group of students is developing a physical space in a high traffic area of campus to serve as a bicycle cooperative. Unlike a traditional bike-shop, this space will provide unlimited access to professional bike repair tools to student cyclists. Volunteer staff will serve as facilitators, but the primary goal of the space is to empower students with mechanical knowledge. In addition to regular mechanic and safety workshops, the space will host bi-annual transportation hackathons and act as a hub for organizing transportation programming..

Milestone 1: Find a space. (Completed January 5, 2017)

<li>Secured a space beneath the Posvar passover and organized the relocation of all equipment currently occupying the space</li>

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Milestone 2: Engage Stakeholders. (Completed January 25, 2017)

<li>Acquired $1,200 in funding from Student Government Board</li><li>Acquired $2,157 in funding from Pitt Green Fund</li><li>Acquired $1,000 in funding from Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation</li><li>Acquired funding for two student workers and all recurring expenses from Pitt Intramurals and Recreations</li><li>Scheduled meeting with Dean of Student Affairs (Feb 2, 2017) and all other relevant University entities</li>

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Milestone 3: Compete in Pitt Sustainable Solutions Competition

== Strategy IVV: Corporate Engagement and the Design Process ==

Problem: Students don’t have a way to directly interact with employers to see what skills they really need to succeed in the real world. This can be changed by creating stronger opportunities for surrounding corporate companies to engage with students. I want to have companies supply real world problems to students so that entrepreneurial mindsets and efforts are used to solve said problems.

<li>If a student does not obtain an internship or co-op throughout their time as a co-op, then experience with companies is left to be a surprise for when they get their first job after graduation</li>

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Assumption: Students would enjoy and be able to gain valuable experience from applying their classroom knowledge to real-world problems that companies face on a day to day basis

<li>Students would also be able to apply entrepreneurial ideologies and innovative thinking to solve the problems that companies are coming in contact with.</li><li>Students will be taken through the design process to show how problems are solved when large teams are present and thousands of dollars are on the line (corporate environment)</li>

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=== Tactic A ===

Utilize our pre-existing makerspace and allow companies to sponsor a night/week/month where students work to solve a real-world problem brought in by said company

=== Tactic B ===

Go on site visits to companies with students and have interactive demos

=== Tactic C ===

Allow current co-ops and interns to host build nights, where they give insight on how companies work and how you can apply an entrepreneurial mindset to

== Engaging Stakeholders ==

Meet with stakeholders to discuss what we discovered and the ideas and plans we have.

<li>Walk in or email stakeholders</li><li>Go outside of the school of engineering and get support from other schools as well</li>

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Ask for any financial or verbal/advertising help we may need.

= Spring 2016 Strategies =

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