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<span style="font-size:medium"></span><span style="font-size: medium;">The primary priorities for the Fall 2017 cohort are to:</span>
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= Overview =
#<font size="3">Build awareness and visibility of interdisciplinary courses on campus, especially for first-year students. </font>
*'''<span style="font-size: medium;">Tactic #1: Resources are in constant competition with each other. </span>'''
**<font size="3">Currently, different I&E initiatives on campus are competing for funding, visibility, and students. How might we encourage them to work together, and also prevent further competitive initiatives from beginning?</font>
**<font size="3"></font><font size="3">Create a map of I&E resources available to students at Georgia Tech. Use the following categories to sort the resources: maker space, mentorship, funding, classes, events, industry connections</font>
**<font size="3">Use the map to display 1) what of the 6 categories is offered at what initiative, 2) where partnerships exist, 3) how students can get involved, and 4) how partners can get involved. </font>
**<font size="3">Incentivize partnerships (as in, instead of creating your own makerspace with a special mentorship program only for one major, partner with a currently existing makerspace to create a mentorship program) by using it as a status symbol on the map. </font>
*<span style="font-size: medium;">'''Tactic #2: Resources are too exclusive, and silo-ed off in different departments. '''</span>
**<font size="3">somethingPartner with the Vertically Integrated Projects program</font>**<span stylefont size="3">Teach classes to students in VIPs, who are often diverse in major and age</font>**<font-size:medium;="3">'''Tactic #3: Resources serve too small Engage a nichebroad range of students in design thinking exercises, leaving some students without options. '''while teaching them how to apply it to the work they are already doing</spanfont>**<font size="3">somethingAdvertise VIPs that now have design thinking experience</font>*<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Tactic #43: Resources are too inaccessible, and too under-the-radar'''</span>**<span style="font-size: medium;">somethingInitiate a low-barrier to entry course for freshmen that introduces them to design thinking through makerspaces</span>**<span style="font-size: medium;">Each person in the class gets to work on a tangible project where they apply design thinking, and can visualize what success looks like</span>
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