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'''<span style="font-size:medium;">University: Berea College,</span>'''
'''<span style="font-size:medium;">Team: University Innovation Fellows Team 2014 Fellows: Ability Kakama, Ali Djire, Solomon Alolga & Sandra Tombe '''Strategic Priorities</span>'''
'''<span style="font-size:medium;">Fellows: Ability Kakama, Ali Djire, Solomon Alolga & Sandra Tombe</span>'''
<p style="text-align: center;">'''<span style="font-size:medium;">Strategic Priorities for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Berea College Campus</span>'''</p>
Our delivery methodology will be to create a space, an innovation studio where we will strive to foster activities that encourage and support innovation on campus and especially among the student body. This studio is known as Berea Innovation Studio (BIS). Under the BIS we will
*Start Fall 2014
'''3. Makers’ Fair: Partner with the technology club to host a prototype design and building sessions, followed by a fair to show case these prototypes and ideas. These events should take place once every regular semester i.e. twice a year.'''
Key Partners: Technology Club, Technology department and Computer Science Department.
'''3. Hackathon and startup preparation camps: Provide an opportunity for budding entrepreneurs to work on their ideas, pitch and get funding and feedback on their ideas. At initial stages, this should serve to prepare these students to participate in other established regional start up camps and weekends.<br/>'''
Lead person: Solono Alolga
*First event Spring 2015
-Lead person: Ali Djire
*First event, October 2014
'''5. Lobby for a class in entrepreneurship that is mandated for every student as part of general studies program. These classes can be subject specific and offered as seminars e.g. entrepreneurship for biology and chemistry, entrepreneurship for Engineering and Technology<br/>'''
*Lead Person: Sandra Tombe