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== Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts ==
<span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>At this point, the most significant point of outreach in the community at UCCS are the Innovation Teams classes in the Bachelor of Innovation. Teams of students work for clients in the community as innovation consultants for a semester, solving a problem for their client. Clients have provided a variety of projects from mobile application development to market research and business plan development.</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">[https://www.quadcos.org/ QUAD Innovation Partnership], as mentioned above, is helping to fill this need through connecting students to relevant projects in the community outside of the university setting.</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">Although outreach at UCCS is currently providing significant value in the community, engagement with regional and local economic development efforts should be developed. Creating and maintaining relationships with the Colorado Springs community is critical, as the community is growing quickly, and new innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities are created through the development of empathy and intersections of ideas.</span>