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[https://jmuxlabs.org/ <span style="color:#000000;"><u style="font-size: medium;">'''<b><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">X-Labs</span></span>'''</b></u></span>]
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This on-campus makerspace facilitates open labs and pop-up classes that teach students skills such as 3D printing, laser cutting, glassblowing, and virtual reality.</span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><u style="font-size: medium;">'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TEDx</span></span>'''</u></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year’s theme of “Fool’s Gold” discussed the idea that things are not always what they seem. Students are able to attend lectures from other students, professors, and guest speakers.</span></span>*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Events can be located here:</span></span>*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/18693 2016 (Theme: Fool's Gold)], [https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/20798 2017 (Theme: Horizons)], [https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/25554 2018 (Theme undetermined)]</span></span>
[https://beinvolved.jmu.edu/organization/JMUSOE <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''<b><u><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Society of Entrepreneurs</span></span></u>'''</b></span></span>]
*<span style="color:#000000;">'''<u><span style="font-size:larger;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span></span></u>'''<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The JMU Society of Entrepreneurs brings entrepreneurially minded students together. In the organization members educate each other and the JMU community on topics of interest, support each other with new ventures, and reach out to entrepreneurs in the community to help them and learn from them. The society also hosts speakers and events to educate the JMU community about different topics based around entrepreneurship. The society is application based, and therefore consists of high-caliber entrepreneurs at JMU.</span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span></span>'''</u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The IDSA at JMU is an interdisciplinary group that meets weekly to organizes workshops, keynote speaker events, collaborative design projects, and trips to conferences. At its core, the IDSA is empowering industrial design students to make an impact on their community with their innovative design skills. Many are active in other groups that are altering campus or have personal pursuits in design and entrepreneurship. With the industrial design concentration now becoming a full major and the number of students increasing, it is becoming a more vital part of the track for industrial designers at JMU.</span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><u>'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ISAT Capstone Projects</span></span>'''</u></span></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><u>'''<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>'''</u></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">As part of the ISAT experience, every senior completes a capstone project. Working individually or in teams, students work on a problem with a real-world component, sometimes teaming with a local industry or governmental sponsor. Capstone project ideas can come from the students themselves, from faculty advisors, or from sponsors. The capstone project allows students opportunity to use the knowledge and skills they learned in ISAT to address a real-world problem, and receive valuable hands-on experience. Students are required to produce a final project report, both in written form and in the form of an oral presentation to the faculty, their student peers, and the public. </span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><u>'''<span style="font-size: medium;">The ICE House</span>'''</u></span>
*<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Innovation, Collaboration and Entrepreneurship (ICE) House is a lean startup started of by the College of Business, Center for Entrepreneurship, JMU Technology Innovation and 4-VA. It is run by JMU X-Labs to set up, speed up and support business ideas or lean. startups and encourage Innovation and Entrepreneurship.</span></span></span>
