Changes

The [[University of Virginia|University of Virginia]] UIF team will create a physical space for Health Innovation and Incubation as the centerpiece of our future plans. The space will be housed in a emergant tech incubator, HackCville, and we will partner with their mission and culture of design, mentorship and self-starter ingenuity. Our stratedgy addresses the gaps identified in our landscaping of UVa's I&E capacity; while there are a multitude of programs and accessible funding avaible on grounds, they are restricted by student-organization transience and their lack of coordination and. We can develop the connectivity needed to to field projects and support them fully from upstream to downstream by riding off of the exisiting momentum and experience in the tech-entrepreneurship field. The proximity to this work is helping to foster a healthy new culture at UVa; under the new physical location and presence we plan to build out new events and programing to create visibility on campus. These include the Lawn Innovation Invation, the Grit Challenge, the Medical Hackathon and IdeasEverwhere Walls- elaborated upon below.

In 2013 the MacAuthur Genius Award was bestowed upon Angela Duckworth for defining the term "Grit" as the best metric of sucess.