<span style="font-size:small;">'''<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Virginia State University (VSU) is one of the selected universities that</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"> will have the opportunity to participate in a collaborative community seeking to increase innovation and entrepreneurship across disciplines (i.e., Agriculture, Business, Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, etc.) in order to build an innovation ecosystem among institutions, administrators, faculty and students, the federal government and private industry. This cohort of HBCUs will be able to access current and future funding opportunities that will be available only to those universities that commit to participate in this unique collaborative. </span>'''</span>
= <span class="editsection" <parsererror style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; paddingdisplay: 0pxblock; linewhite-heightspace: 1.4pre; -webkit-user-selectborder: none; font-size: 15px; float: right;">[[http://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities&action=edit§ion=1 edit]]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Strategy_.231_Create_designated_spaces_to_foster_creativity" style="margin: 0px2px solid #c77; padding: 0px0 1em 0 1em; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px1em; padding: 0px; linebackground-heightcolor: 1.4#fdd; font-familycolor: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;black"><span style="margin: 0px> padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: large;">Strategy #1 Create designated spaces to foster creativity<br/span><</span></span><br/> =parsererror>
= <div lang="en" dir="ltr" <span class="mw-content-ltreditsection" style="margin: 0px0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; direction-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 15px; float: ltrright;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arialMetaBold, helvetica'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">Strategy #1: Changing the Potential Value At Virginia State University</span></span><span style="margincolor: 0pxrgb(68, 68, 68); paddingfont-family: 0pxArial, sans-serif; linefont-heightsize: 114.444444465637207px; fontline-sizeheight: medium22.399999618530273px;"> VSU has stated that it plans to "engage in continuous improvement, renovation, and construction The following are an array of facilities strategies that will suppport Morgan's faculty, staff, start to develop the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem engaging students in their teaching, learning research, and creative work, that will enhance the delivery of student support services and improve the quality of life for the Morgan State University":</span><br/span>===
== <span class="mw-headline" id="Tactic_.231:_The_Design_and_Entrepreneurship_Network_.28The_DEN.29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Tactic #1: 3DS Springboard</span ><br/> ==<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-sizedirection: mediumltr;">Tactic #1 Create an Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship Center (ICE)</span>'''</spanu> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-sizefamily: mediumarial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-familysize: arial, helvetica, sans-serifmedium;">-This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborationsDiscription:</span></span> </u><span style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;">-skills lab for learning hard skills </span></span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-familysize: 12px; color: arialrgb(0, helvetica0, sans-serif0);"><span style="marginfont-family: 0pxGeorgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serif; paddingfont-size: 0px14px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium21px;">3 Day Startup’s mission is to kick-start new student-tech tutorials run companies and build entrepreneurial capabilities in students and workshopstheir university communities. We rent work space for 3 full days, recruit 45 student participants from a wide range of backgrounds, cater food and drinks, and bring in top-notch entrepreneurs and investors. The participants pick the best ideas for startups during the Day 1 brainstorming session and deliver prototypes and investor pitches on the final night.</span></span> <span style="margincolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 0pxGeorgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serif; paddingfont-size: 0px14px; line-height: 121px;">3DS Springboard is an interactive workshop focused on the beginning steps of launching a company or a project through on-campus innovation.4Over four 90-minute sessions over fontone week, you will learn-by-family: arialdoing with the 3DS team, helveticaEpicenter Innovation Fellow leaders on your campus, sansand other students in your community who are passionate about starting something!</span></div><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-serif;ltr">'''<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-sizedirection: mediumltr;">Tactic #2 Create a Student Lounge in the Physics department<br/span>'''</spandiv> <span div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; direction: ltr;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-familysize: arial, helvetica, sans-serifmedium;">'''What can I start with 3DS Springboard?'''</span></span ><br/><br/></div><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size: mediumsmall;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)#000000;">At Virginia State University there is no designated space for Physics students outside of classrooms. Opening A company, a lounge will strengthen the crippled physics department by creating project, a sense of communitymovement–3DS Springboard teaches entrepreneurship skills such as ideation, customer discovery, fostering social support and increasing learning collaborationpitching in the context of making real-world progress on anything you want to start.</span></span><br/></spandiv> <span div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-familydirection: arial, helvetica, sans-serifltr;"><br/><span style="margincolor: 0px#000000; padding">'''<span style="font-size: 0pxlarger; line-height: 1.4">Who is eligible to participate? </span>'''<br/><br/><span style="font-size: mediumsmall;">20-40 current students at each of the participating schools.</span></span><br/><br/><span style="margincolor: 0px#000000; padding">'''<span style="font-size: 0pxlarger; line">What is the cost to participate?</span>'''<br/><br/><span style="font-heightsize: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)small;">Location: One This workshop is free but you must complete all modules to get your pitch in front of the classroom/office spaces in the department can be turned into a student loungeglobal audience of influencers, investors, and innovators. Ideally the lounge will be placed close to the department office so whenever the office is opened</closed during for the day the lounge can be as well.span></span><br/><br/span><br/span></div> =
= <span class="editsection" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; -webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 15px; float: right;">[[http://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities&action=edit§ion=2 edit]]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Strategy_.232_Expose_non-STEM_students_to_Innovation_and_Entrepreneurship" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: large;">Strategy #2 Expose non-STEM students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> =