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Employers participating in [http://www.startupcolorado.com/startup-summer Startup Summer] have come to Mines to promote the program where students interested in startups can have a paid internship and gain valuable insight into innovation and entrepreneurship. This program has been a pathway for post graduation employment for several Mines graduates.
=== Maker Society ===
The Maker Society democratizes 'making' on campus. The Society implemented a hub and spoke model to connect all of the maker spaces on campus with a brand new maker space at the center, the Blaster Design Factory (BDF). The BDF is a space for rapid prototyping that is open to all students and faculty. They foster innovation and connect students to the other spaces on campus. Their main focus is the idea that "anyone can create anything."
=== Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation ===
<span id="docs-internal-guid-fb665d01-2fe3-6e84-45bf-da0520bea09c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The center for entrepreneurship and innovation here at the Colorado School of Mines aspires to give students the opportunity to build skills which will vastly help them in their bright futures.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-fb665d01-2fe3-6e84-45bf-da0520bea09c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They have two primary objectives:</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-fb665d01-2fe3-6e84-45bf-da0520bea09c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educate our students in modern entrepreneurial thinking.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-fb665d01-2fe3-6e84-45bf-da0520bea09c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide the opportunity for our students and faculty to explore the commercialization of their science and technology ideas.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-fb665d01-2fe3-6e84-45bf-da0520bea09c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their vision for the future is to create a Colorado School of Mines where entrepreneurs are seamlessly connected with the infrastructure, resources, and funding they need to achieve their goal: developing sustainable and successful commercial entities based on either Mines-derived or individual-derived technologies.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-fb665d01-2fe3-6e84-45bf-da0520bea09c"><span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://innovation.mines.edu/about/ https://innovation.mines.edu/about/]</span></span>
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== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' <br/> ==