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=Adam Marcinkowski=Adam is a junior Mechanical Engineering student and University Innovation Fellow Candidate at the Colorado School of Mines. He transferred from the United States Air Force Academy where his academic background was in Political Science with a focus on how to innovate within large organizations.

At Adam is a junior Mechanical Engineering student and University Innovation Fellow Candidate at the Colorado School of Mines. He transferred from the United States Air Force Academy and an internship at Facebook, Adam's research asked two questions: what is it about the DNA of Silicon Valley companies that makes them so agile and adaptable? How do we export those elements where he studied Political Science with a focus on how to other innovate within large organizations elsewhere? His work combined the good (growth mindset, rapid experimentation, culture building), the bad (the many ways bureaucracies try . Adam became a UIF candidate to kill innovation) and join the ugly (building political capitalranks of take-charge, navigating bureaucracies, and culture unconventional change)leaders.

Adam is able to use this organizational innovation mindset as currently a Mines Venture Associate at Mineshis university' s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He helps develop launch and coordinate innovative and entrepreneurial thinking activities across the Mines campus. These include the hackathon-like "Hackmines Innovation Challenge", the Mines Maker Society, campus makerspaces, the Golden Startup Festival pitch competition, and more. A firm believer in his fellow engineering studentsthe benefits of a competitive spirit, Adam has either captained, launched, while helping student organizations and clubs launch initiatives /or helped popularize different business and adopt innovation strategiesengineering competitions across campus.

A systems-level thinker trained in organizational intrapreneurship and innovation, Adam also hopes to put his educational background to the test. His stint as an Air Force researcher in Silicon Valley was spent investigating two key questions: what is it about the DNA of Silicon Valley companies that makes them so agile and adaptable? More importantly, how do we export those elements to other organizations? His work combined the good (growth mindset, rapid experimentation, culture building), the bad (the many ways bureaucracies try to kill innovation) and the ugly (building political capital, navigating bureaucracies, and culture change). Besides innovation and entrepreneurship, Adam is heavily involved in aerospace on campus. His specific passionAdam's mission in life is to help move human civilization off-world so that we can live permanently in space and on other planets. The best way to do this, and the reason he's at Minesbelieves, is through space mining- a major reason Adam transferred to Mines, Planet Earth's top-ranked mining university and the only one to have a program in Space Resources. He is currently But large-scale human space colonization relies just as much on the project lead for human aspect as it does fuel, construction, and manufacturing. Still a NASA lunar mining design competitionsocial scientist at heart, Adam hopes to help others rethink education, VP of the American Institute for Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA)ethics, and society for the chairman of AIAA's Space Resources Committee21st century.