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= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #1</span> =
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Provide students with more innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities by exposing them to the Landscape Canvas & Wiki Pages. This would be executed by making information easily accessible and intuitive for students campus wide.</span></span></span>
== Tactic #1: Interactive Panels and Tablets Across Campus ==
*Description: Install fun to use tablets in areas on campus where foot traffic is heavy.
**Dining Locations
**Residence Halls
**Libraries
**Maker Spaces
== Tactic #2: Information Posted on Student Websites ==
*Description: Make information more available on student websites in a more accessible fashion.
**MyMadison
**JMU.org
**Canvas
== Tactic #3: Print Out Versions of Information ==
*Description: Provide an easy to read flowchart of innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities on print outs to distribute to students.
**House in Libraries
**Have University Innovation Fellows and or University Faculty distribute print outs to interested students.
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== Tactic #4: Hold Seminar targeted at Underclassmen ==
*Description: Hold seminar open to all students walking through the different opportunities found in the Landscape Canvas.
**Have representatives from courses, programs, and organizations speak about how they inspire innovation and entrepreneurship type thinking.
**Give out small brochures describing the information on the landscape canvas.
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= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #2:</span> =
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"></span>Bring international students to James Madison University for a 2 week summer program focused healvily on innovation and entrepreneurship.
== Tactic #1: Course Variety ==
*Decription: Provide courses in various fields of study to encourage a wider audience of students.
**Examples:
***Engineering
***Business Start Up
***Rapid Prototyping
== Tactic #2: University Exposure ==
*Description: Introduce students to campus and University life in the United States.
**JMU Dining
**Student Organizations
**Residential Life
**University Recreation
**Speaking with Professors
== Tactic #3: Hackathon Connections ==
*Description:Provide students with the opportunit to make connections through a hackathon which would take place during the summer school program.
**Sponsors could incorporate prizes.
**Company employees and James Madison faculty would serve as mentors during the innovative process.
**Students can search out potential jobs or internship opportunities.
**Participants are given the opportunity to engage in design thinking.
= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #3</span> =
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"></span>Expand X-Labs space within Lakeview Hall and throughout campus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.
== Tactic #1:Convert Office Spaces ==
*Description: Transforming the current offices in Lakeview Hall into an expanded collaborative work and makerspace.
**Remove non-innovative spaces in Lakeview Hall to provide more room for innovation and space for more technologies.
== Tactic #2: Implement Into JMU General Education Curriculum ==
Create a new cluster of required classes for JMU students that will enhance the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.
*Description: The entrepreneurial mindset is an important tool for all incoming and existing students as a form of engaged learning.
== Tactic #3: Satellite Maker Spaces ==
*Description: Convert or improve current lab spaces around campus into X-Labs affiliated maker spaces.
**Help to promote X-Labs name and encourage participation in innovative opportunities.
**Further establish X-Labs as an asset to the JMU ecosystem.
= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #4</span> =
Create Collisions amongst entrepreneurially minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.