<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: Innovators’ Mentorship Program is an initiative that helps students grow and build their ideas on a large scale by matching interested students with faculty members, alums, and affiliates who have knowledge in the industry or field of study that a student is exploring. Mentors will guide students, provide advice and insights, and could help network students so that their ideas can be executed on a full scale.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">This mentorship program targets 30 students ranging from all years. They will be selected based on an essay describing why they are seeking a mentor in the innovation space and what ideas they want to develop further with this mentor. The matching process will be a mutual selection process -- students choose their most interested areas and mentors give keywords relating to their expertise. Students can either take a Special Studies or produce weekly reports on the progress. A team of faculty members interested in the development of innovation will form an Advisory Committee to track the process and get feedbacks from mentors. The Lazarus Center (Career Development Office) and The Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIEC) holds regional meet-ups, annual mix & mingle events, and one-day trip to the mentor’s office locations.</span></span></span>
== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 03: Encouraging innovation among students and faculty</span><br/> ==
=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio:</span></span><br/> ===
<span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch: EduStudio allows faculty to develop and design new teaching tools, methods and assignments and experiment with new and innovative techniques. Besides giving students and teachers a new way of assessment, EduStudio will benefit viewers who can learn about key concepts in a more engaging, concise way.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">EduStudio will encourage faculty to innovate, while also reaping educational benefits for the student body. While EduStudio is a fairly fluid concept, its main use is to assist faculty with creating new teaching tools and methods as well as to improve existing grading methods to make them more experimental and to encourage students to explore homework assignments deeper and more creatively. While we are unsure of what the final product will be like, we want to work to make collaborative spaces for faculty to learn how to incorporate creativity into their curriculum because creativity will help encourage students to be more innovative. We hope to speak with faculty and gauge interest, and will ideally work with the Design Thinking Initiative to brainstorm and facilitate workshops in educating professors in alternative teaching methods.</span></span>
=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Innovation Library:</span></span><br/> ===
<span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap"></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2659499-e493-43c2-e7dc-df8d255f0b13"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Program Pitch:</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library has an idea board that includes some thought-provoking questions such as “What’s on your mind?”, “What keeps you up at night?”, “What’s the one thing you want to change at Smith?” Students and faculty members can post sticky notes with their thoughts anytime. There is a special prompt on the idea board every other week, and the person who suggests the best answer, voted by the Smith community, will receive 5$ Campus Center/ Grecourt Bookshop gift card.</span>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The Innovation Library also has small maker-space and short coffee-break sessions with discussions / talks about I&E, design thinking and other issues on campus. There are posters and flyers around the library, and there are bookmarks that advertise I&E resources. The wordings in the bookmarks are tailored to academic fields so that students will respond better to those opportunities.</span>
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== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap">Strategy 04: Accommodating for disruptions in campus ecosystem due to library construction</span> ==