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<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b6b51b86-d2f6-4881-8f1d-1d444610f1ec"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Union College needs to further develop innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. A course titled ICE (Innovation, Creativity, and the Entrepreneurial Mindset) will be implemented in the Spring of 2017, however this is merely the tip of the iceberg. We should now start to host more consistent seminars, workshops, and classes pertaining to innovation and entrepreneurship. These activities will all be interactive to allow students to start thinking and delving deeper into these topics. External speakers that are experts in these fields should be invited to talk to increase student attendance. Once these seminars and classes are well-established amongst the campus, this will likely increase overall innovation and entrepreneurship on campus, thus creating a general culture change. Since this is not immediately feasible, this can likely be implemented within a three year period. Gradually Union College can start to host seminars and workshops until they are a regular and consistent part of our community.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b6b51b86-d2f6-4881-8f1d-1d444610f1ec"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Target date to start implementing more seminars and workshops: September, 2017</span></span></span>

= <u>Strategy #3: Bridge the Professional and the Academic</u> =

= <u>Strategy #3: Building Connections, Entrepreneurial Spirit, and Innovative Improvements</u> =

<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4a5acbd-6cd7-f9e6-5df9-b022ddca4e99"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week I prototype my idea for a series of mock classes in the arts and humanities in order to promote disciplines other than STEM in Union. During my testing phase, I learned a lot of new perspective on my idea and changed my plan radically. I also gained fresh insights after meeting with my mentor - Jonathan. The power of prototyping and testing really amazes me, since I presumptuously thought the original idea I had was good enough, I failed to see what others could. People also have much more diverse experiences than I do, so that helped tremendously.</span></span></span>

<div>- An Nguyen -</div>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many students on campus seem eager to for stronger relationships with the surrounding community. The use of food excites students and is a very good incentive for students to engage with the community. Students also brought up very good questions that I would need to consider as I continue to build upon this project. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Marina DeLuca -</span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">Students really like the idea of modernizing work spaces to be more collaborative. A more d</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small;">efined structure to the Schaffer library is preferred and sometimes confusing presently. We would like to try s</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small;">hifting the entire function of the library.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small;">- JP Elmblad -</span>

<div><br/></div><div>The idea of a texting service actually came about amidst a discussion with several of my housemates. I initiated the topic of how students do not know even half of the spaces available to them, and together my housemates and I attempted to figure out a solution to this problem that would be the absolute fastest, easiest, and simplest.&nbsp;</div><div><br/></div><div>The solution we chose to prototype for this problem was a campus-wide texting service. When in use, this service allows students to see what rooms are available at a moment’s notice, without having to download an app or go through any extra time-consuming research. This solves two problems, the first being that students will have an easier time finding available study environments, especially during midterm/finals weeks. The second and most important to the initiative, students will be given a better idea of what kinds of spaces are available, and what they have access to in these spaces. This will give students a better idea of the resources they have at their disposal on an everyday basis, and will give them the information they need to innovate and be creative within these spaces.&nbsp;</div><div><br/></div><div>- Samantha Kruzshak -&nbsp;</div>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-f4a5acbd-6cef-0315-7468-062d6526d387" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every January, Union students come back from their winter breaks for a school-wide pitch competition with real investors in the crowd judging. The winner(s) (teams permitted) is allowed to connect with investors if they really want to go through with their ideas and is awarded a prestigious “Winner of UPitch 20xx” each year and the runner up could gain something similar. This promotes our school as an entrepreneurial hub and gives students a chance to show what they got. The winner could also win cash prize. We w</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">orked with student body to figure out what ways students could participate to produce a unique product and how they would display their work, this is what we came up with.</span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;">- Team -&nbsp;</span>

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