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= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategies for Expansion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus</span><br/> =
= <span style="font-size:xx-large;"></span>Strategy One: Connecting Students through Sustainability =
<span style="font-size:larger;">When analyzing the first year experience at Michigan Tech, it became evident that some students felt disconnected from their peers in different majors. For some reason, there was a barrier that was a barrier that was keeping these students from interacting with students that were in other majors. To defeat this barrier, we want to be able to incorporate design thinking into some different areas of our campus to better help our peers be able to work with one another to work on a common goal. One class on the Michigan Tech campus that sees a majority of the student body already tackles large world issues in a lecture type setting: Global Issues. Changing a class can take a lot of steps to implement. During this class changing process, our team wants to get evidence of how students working together to work to a common goal could be a good addition to the class as well as get students more involved on our campus.</span>
<span style="font-size: larger;">'''Sustainability Workshops: '''Initially we want to start out with some sustainability workshops to see what portion of students are interested in taking a part of a conversation about sustainability. To do this, there will be three different workshops. It will be optional to attend any one of them without attending previous ones to work with the changing schedule of an everyday student. In these workshops, there will be a DIY recyclable project, a sustainability conversation, and a design thinking challenge to get students thinking about their own environmental "pawprint" as a Michgan Tech Husky.</span>
'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Campus Survey:</span> '''<span style="font-size:larger;">Next, we plan on taking a poll through the campus, ideally through first-year students to get their perspective on the new campus they've become accustomed to. In this survey, there will be questions about where their interest lies in different sustainability issues whether it be recycling, garbage, renewable energy, and other topics. This will help see what sort of initiatives the student body would be interested in persuing and seeing implemented on their campus.</span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"></span>'''Sustainability Initiative: '''<span style="font-size:larger;">With the data found from the campus survey, the team will be able to find what larger interests our new students have with changing their campus. We plan on taking these passions from the student body and creating an initiative that everyone can take a part of changing on their campus. This can be done by reaching out to different areas of the campus and helping with initiatives that are already in place as well as sustaining our own. We want to be able to create a community where people are able to help each other and work together to reach our common goal of sustainability.</span>
'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Global Issues Revamp:</span>'''Global Issues Revamp: '''<span style="font-size:larger;">Once we are able to bring different majors together to encourage design thinking to bring solutions to our own campus, we want to bring this data to the faculty that teach the Global Issues class at Michigan Tech. We see great potential in this class to help students gain a larger appreciation for the subject. Incorporating more group work to assign students to different world issues will help students gain an understanding for what is going on in the world outside their bubble on the Michigan Tech campus.</span>
== <span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy Two: Innovation Learning Community</span> ==