= Strategy# 1: Changing the Potential Value on Virginia State University's Campus =
== '''<span class="mw-headline" id="Tactic_.231:_The_Design_and_Entrepreneurship_Network_.28The_DEN.29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Tactic #1: 3DS Springboard</span>'''<br/> ==<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Description:</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"> </span></span>'''<span style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">3 Day Startup’s mission is to kick-start new student-run companies and build entrepreneurial capabilities in students and their 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="line-height: 21px;">3DS Springboard is an interactive workshop focused on the beginning steps of launching a company or a project through on-campus innovation. Over four 90-minute sessions over one week, you will learn-by-doing with the 3DS team, Epicenter Innovation Fellow leaders on your campus, and other students in your community who are passionate about starting something!</span</span></span></div></span><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; direction: ltr;"><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:large;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''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:large;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''A company, a project, a movement–3DS Springboard teaches entrepreneurship skills such as ideation, customer discovery, and pitching in the context of making real-world progress on anything you want to start.'''</span></span><br/></div><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; direction: ltr;"><br/><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Who is eligible to participate? <br/><br/>20-40 current students at each of the participating schools.<br/><br/>What is the cost to participate?<br/><br/>This workshop is free but you must complete all modules to get your pitch in front of the global audience of influencers, investors, and innovators.'''</span></span><br/><br/><br/></div></div>
== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<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;">Tactic #2 : </span></span></span><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1; font-family: Calibri;">Students led Innovation</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 1; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: larger;">and Entrepreneurship</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 1; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: larger;">club (ECO - ReNew)</span>'''</span> ==