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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQchRx6HDM Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurial Opportunities at James Madison University ]

= Strategy #1 =

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.

== Tactic #1: Marketing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Survey Method ==

*Description: Incentivize students to participate in a survey to learn more about Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs available on campus with free food. 

**D-Hall Commons gets a lot of foot traffic every day making it an easy location to consider when implementing this survey. This is also a place that many organizations already utilize for similar ways of capturing students’ attention.

**Festival Conference Center is the equivalent of commons, but on East Campus, allowing students who are not on main campus to access the same information we are providing.

**Showker Hall is where most of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs are since it is the business school, but since there is construction currently in that area, it could get a little hectic trying to find these I&E resources. Setting up a survey station there would also be beneficial in that aspect. 

== Tactic #2: Funding for Programs All Over Campus That Have Innovators ==

*Description: A new, interdisciplinary, course hosted by XLabs that focuses on teaching students successful business practices, agile team management, human centered design, and much more. The class would ask for students to form into teams and progress through the design of a project by hitting bi-weekly deadlines and then giving a final pitch to a panel of judges that would then decide on whether or not they want to financially support the teams’ project/business.

== Tactic #3: Updating and Innovating on Liberal Arts Curriculums ==

*Description: Liberal arts majors, like history, writing, english, etc. have been largely left behind by the advances in higher education. 

**Brainstorm possibilities: it is easy to dismiss the need to improve these courses because they have been taught the same way for so long. It might even be hard to imagine, for example, learning history by any other means than reading and lecturing. A wide, creative swath of ideas should be proposed to revamp these curriculums.

**Demonstrate ideas: design a single lesson or a fraction of a class to show proof of concept. Test this plan on an objective, unbiased selection of students to determine its effectiveness.

**Propose solutions: with these insights and data in mind, create a concise and clear plan and propose to one of the academic deans or a similarly influential figure in one of the liberal arts departments. 

== Tactic #4: Centralization of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs around Campus ==

*Description: An organization and summit dedicated to creating connections between various organizations on campus with interests in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 

**This organization would be a board with liaisons from various clubs on campus that would serve as connections, and representatives, for each of these I&E organizations.

**Additionally, an annual Innovation Summit would be held for faculty and students to discuss how to implement I&E in higher education as well as the opportunities present on campus. Events could include: presentations, landscape canvases, inter-group projects, and more.

== Tactic #5: Centralization of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs around Campus ==

*Description: An organization dedicated to assisting students with unique, innovative ideas in the process of getting their creations patented, trademarked, or etc., as well as providing funding for this costly, time-consuming process.

**This program would be open to any student with a passion for creating, but would work closely with STEM majors who sometimes require specialized creations to be made for their Jr/Sr Capstone project.

= Strategy #2 =

**Have University Innovation Fellows and or University Faculty distribute print outs to interested students.

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== Tactic #4: Hold Seminar ~~targeted~~ Targeted at Underclassmen ==

*Description: Hold seminar open to all students walking through the different opportunities found in the Landscape Canvas.

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*Recognition of students through rewards, prizes, or opportunity to implement project

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<li>Ability for students to gain experience that allows them to distinguishes themselves and gain valuable skills</li>

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*Ability for students to gain experience that allows them to distinguishes themselves and gain valuable skills

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*Make it open for all years (Freshman - Senior)<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">

<li/ul></ul> *Teams intermingled with students from all different years so knowledge and wisdom can be exchanged~~</li></ul><li>~~*Opportunity for students to showcase their problem-solving abilities~~</li>~~<</ul>>

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= Strategy #3 =

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*Open for all years (Freshman - Seniors) and for all majors<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">

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*Programming is starting to become a valuable skill in many different professions, not limited to Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, etc.

Mitch.donohoe

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