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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">Meet Nathan LaWarre, a student from Western Michigan University. Nathan is an active student on his campus and like </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce008693-67d7-1c1d-06e4-61c99709305d" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">many [[Filehttp:Nathan UIF Profile//universityinnovation.JPG|thumb|Nathan UIF Profileorg/images/6/6e/Nathan_UIF_Profile.JPG]JPGother http://universityinnovation.org/images/6/6e/Nathan_UIF_Profile.JPGother]other students from different universities, he is interested in bringing people fr</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">om interdisciplinary backgrounds together. With his strong interest in creating an environment where students can ideate, build projects and learn, Nathan and his club, Innovation Club, created this collaborative work space at his university known as a “makerspace.”</span>

<li><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce008693-67e6-fcc9-8533-8aaa201ba534"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think of ways to benefit the whole university with your one space.. Its . It's challenging but ultimately will give your space more support (and more money).</span></span></span></span></li>

<li><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><u><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce008693-67e6-fcc9-8533-8aaa201ba534"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now it’s time for the hype.. '''Get people excited'''!</span></span></u></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce008693-67e6-fcc9-8533-8aaa201ba534"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Team up with professors and faculty who support what you are doing and that you like to be around. Get them excited by sharing your passion and hopefully they can help fund your spacethrough materials or equipment. Although you want your space to be student run, you need faculty involved for behind the scenes.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce008693-67e6-fcc9-8533-8aaa201ba534"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A space makerspace can be full of the greatest equipment and not used at all, that’s no good! In order to get students into your space you need to excite them. Get the word out!</span></span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce008693-67e6-fcc9-8533-8aaa201ba534"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is there a student organization fair soon? If so, get active in that! Hopefully , you have some funds available at this point that you could use to buy some little giveaways.. Freshman and people in general love giveaways!</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce008693-67e6-fcc9-8533-8aaa201ba534"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People will listen to your passion Nathan shared a little trick with us: Give people business cards that have just a date and get inspiredlocation on them. Don't tell them about the space, let just encourage them to be there. The suspense draws people in, and before you know how awesome your space isit they'll be coming every day.</span></span></span></li>

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