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= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Overview </span>=

<span style="font-size:larger;">Michigan Tech’s campus is poised to be a model for student innovation and entrepreneurship. The State of Michigan has recognized the Houghton / Hancock area as a hotbed of innovation, and efforts to connect the School of Business and the School of Engineering are creating new business opportunities daily.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger;">The problem isn’t ideas. It rarely ever is. Uniquely, Michigan Tech doesn’t suffer from a talent gap. Michigan Tech’s engineers are recruited around the globe for their hands-on experience and industry-focused education.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger;">We’ll include a story to summarize the problem at Michigan Tech: &nbsp;One day in early April, a venture capitalist (VC) from Silicon Valley came to Michigan Tech to do due-diligence on a new technology being developed in 3D printing. The VC gave a speech and discussed her time at Stanford. She said, “I never thought about being involved in venture capital, but when I got to school, everyone was talking about starting a business and I felt like I needed to get plugged into that ecosystem.” Michigan Tech lacks that passion, enthusiasm, and culture. These three strategies are designed to remedy that challenge.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger;">A new center for innovation and entrepreneurship&nbsp;is the proposed solution. It uses new academic opportunities, event programming, and startup support to drive a culture shift towards innovation and entrepreneurship.</span>

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= Strategy One<span style="font-size: Command the Dialogue&nbspxx-large; ">Strategies for Expansion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus</span>=

Overview=Strategy One: As mentioned above the culture at Michigan Tech rarely centers on new inventions and entrepreneurship. MUBX is designed to change this Connecting Students through a series of comprehensive programming opportunities, outlined below.Sustainability=

MUBX derives its name <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 student programing board: the Memorial Union Board (MUB Board)campus to better help our peers be able to work with one another to work on a common goal. MUB Board has an extensive network and brand recognition One class on the Michigan Tech campusthat sees a majority of the student body already tackles large world issues in a lecture type setting: Global Issues. This new committee (MUBX) will have access Changing a class can take a lot of steps to the programming experienceimplement. During this class changing process, financial resources, and advisory support that are afforded 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 student unioncampus.&nbsp;</span>

<span style== 3DS&nbsp"font-size: larger; (Fall 2014) ==">To do this, our team plans on taking four steps: hosting sustainability workshops in our campus's MakerSpace, deploying a sustainability survey through the first year students to gage their interest on the topic, launch a sustainability initiative on the Michigan Tech campus with the help of different organizations and the student body, and implenting changes to the Global Issues class to incorporate more design thinking and team work.</span>

<span style="font-size: larger;">'''Sustainability Workshops:&nbsp;MUBX '''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 responsible for bringing the Three Day Startup event to Michigan Tech’s campusthree different workshops. The goal of event It will be optional to attend any one of them without attending previous ones to connect engineers who may work with the changing schedule of an everyday student. In these workshops, there will be interested in working with a startup DIY recyclable project, a sustainability conversation, and a design thinking challenge to business leaders with ideas that they’d love to see come to fruitionget students thinking about their own environmental "pawprint" as a Michgan Tech Husky.</span>

'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Campus Survey:</span>&nbsp;MUBX will work with '''<span style="font-size:larger;">Next, we plan on taking a poll through the School of Business and Economics campus, ideally through first-year students to support 3DS startups that leave get their perspective on the event excited about starting a new venture by encouraging them campus they've become accustomed to enter . 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 New Venture Competitionstudent body would be interested in persuing and seeing implemented on their campus.</span>

<span style== TEDx (Spring 2015)"font-size:larger;">'''Sustainability Initiative:&nbsp; =='''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>

Last year (2012'''<span style="font-2013) size:larger;">Global Issues Revamp:</span>&nbsp;'''<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 held their first ever TEDx. Only 100 tickets were available and at $10 apiece they sold out within minutes of 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 sale. The event’s reach was limited, but provided a breath of energy to in the world outside their bubble on the Michigan Tech campus. It got people talking.</span>

MUBX wants to work with the University to send a delegate (advisor) to the TEDx conference in order to increase the ability of the conference to students across the university. &nbsp==<span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy Two: Innovation Learning Community</span>==

<span style== TechMakers I (Late Fall 2014) =="font-size:larger;">With the formation of the new Pavlis Honors College on Michigan Tech's campus, the are plenty of new opportunities available to introduce innovation and creative thinking early in the student experience. One of the best ways to inspire a shared vision within students is provide them with the opportunity to spend time with other students who are interested in similar ideas. By creating an environment where students are constantly challenged to think differently in their everyday experiences, they will develop a more diverse set of problem solving skills to implement in their daily lives.</span>

TechMakers <span style="font-size:larger;">Next year the Pavlis Honors College will have a learning community for first year students in the College. This will be a great opportunity to test out some creative ways to incorporate creative thinking into residence hall life. Resident Assistants are currently required to create programs for their students to participate in and this would be an extension exceptional opportunity to test out some new ideas. Some of these programs that they do with their students make include some of the TechHacks concept planned and executed by events such as the ACM chapter at Michigan Tech. MUBX will support ACM and expand Make-a-thon or the event to include all majors and facilitate creation across campus10X Thinking Workshop.</span>

Teams that move through the 3DS program ==<span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy Three: Innovation and are interested in competing in the NVC will be encouraged to attend TechMakers I as an opportunity to deliver a prototype to the NVC judges.&nbsp;Brainstorming Course</span>==

<span style= Strategy Two"font-size: The Opportunity larger;">Currently, first year engineering students can be found using their brainstorming and innovation skills in class. These skills are typically not used again until the student reaches their fourth or fifth year and are taking Senior Design or join an Enterprise Team. There are many instances where students have a hard time trying to Learn =think of ideas for projects because they are trying to focus on what they have learned from the books, but when they get out into the real world, the answer will not be in the back of the book.</span>

<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0size:larger;">This class will help students to continue to use their brainstorming and innovation tools that they have learned so that they can use these tools in the future. This course will also help guide students to think outside the box so that it is easier to tackle problems in future courses and in the real world. This could possibly be a program of classes that will take <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0); background-color: transparent; fontsans-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapserif;">Overview:place</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: presans-wrapserif;">The greatest incentive a university can offer a during </span>both the student 's second and third year in order to encourage learning make sure that the student is credit towards graduation. By applying entrepreneurial ready to tackle the final projects before graduating and innovative courses heading out into the existing curriculum structure students will have an opportunity to grow their skill set in the I and E spacework force.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0">=<span style="font-size: 15px; fontx-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarge;">By pulling together existing classes and proposing new ones, the LearnX branch will empower students to take the next step.</span>Strategy Four: Innovation Retreat</span>==

== <span style="backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparent; color: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0); fontsans-family: Arialserif; "><span style="font-size: 15pxlarger; font-weight: bold">Currently, Michigan Tech has&nbsp; white-space: pre-wrap;"a focus on retreats for Leadership and similar skills, but no such thing for Innovation. There is plenty of time within the curriculum schedules of students who are interested to attend a weekend retreat to the surrounding wilderness of Michigan Tech, and focus solely on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, to help cultivate an Innovative Mindset.</span>Lean Startup</span> ==

<span idstyle="docsfont-internalfamily:arial,helvetica,sans-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarger;">A lean startup course has already been proposed This retreat would help students cultivate Innovation Mindsets by the NCIIA Pathways group presenting them with real world challenges, and is being implemented during giving them time to work on finding solutions for these challenges, followed by creating prototypes of their solutions by using whatever resources they find in the Summer of 2014 as a pilotsurrounding area. This course On the final day, the students will hopefully grow discuss challenges in size the local community of Michigan Tech and popularity how they might go about solving those challenges, as well as more students become interested other strategies for staying involved in an innovation and entrepreneurshipmindset after they leave the retreat.</span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; white-space: prex-wraplarge;">Design for OrganizationsStrategy Five: I&E Event Series</span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarger;">Right now Michigan Tech doesn’t offer any comprehensive graphic design After creating an amazing collaborative space on campus, there will be plenty of opportunities to host events focused on innovation and marketing crash courseentrepreneurship. This (These events will focus on creating excitement about the new) course will teach initiatives on campus and recruit motivated students for the basics new I&E section of the Adobe Creative suite as well as basic marketing psychologyPavlis Honors College. The course instruction will center around Pathways team has been working with real world clients on bringing in a few speakers, and applying the concepts student programming board is already planning an event to small businesses (start ups) and student organizationsbe held in the space. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15pxlarger; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-">Examples of events that can be held in the spaceinclude: pre-wrap;">Technology Commercialization</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15larger;">As a continuation of a course already offered by Michigan Tech, this section will focus on how '''Speaker Series''' - Bringing in guest speakers who have had experience with I&E and have proven to transform research into be a viable businessstrong motivating force for involving students. With a strong focus on voice of customer and the business model canvasPossible topics include opportunity recognition, legal principles, entrepreneurial finance, this class helps researchers and innovators bridge the gap between idea strategic partnering and market successbuilding effective startup teams.</span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wraplarger;">Looking Forward:Recent interviews have brought to life the importance of bringing in fresh faces from outside of the Michigan Tech community or alumni who have moved on and are doing incredible things. &nbsp;Likewise, there should be speakers from a variety of disciplines.</span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarger;">While these classes mark a great start in empowering students Examples of speakers that we would like to extend their development bring in innovation and entrepreneurship they won’t be enough in the long term. As are: Debbie Sterling (Founder/CEO of Goldieblox which produces engineering toys geared for a part female market), William Henderickson (Founder/CEO of LearnX faculty and staff will be encouraged to offer one credit seminars Avecka, Inc which specializes in areas they’re passionate about. This could range from particle technology, an exploration of Google Glass to a series of lectures of programming competitively.</span>example is E-ink), and many more!</span>

<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15pxlarger; font">'''Make-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; verticala-align: baseline; whitethon''' -space: pre-wrap;">This collection An opportunity for student teams to come together and brainstorm possible solutions for an and all ideas. Some of courses is designed to give students who think they may these projects and ideas could potentailly be interested in innovation or entrepreneurship carried on after the end of the opportunity to grow and dabble in a formalized settingevent.</span></span>

<span style= Strategy Three"font-size: Support larger;">'''3 Day Startup''' - As mentioned in the Culture =spring overview, the goal of the event is to connect engineers who may be interested in working with a startup to business leaders with ideas they would love to see come to life.</span>

== <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="font-size: 15pxlarger; font">'''10X Thinking Workshop''' -family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0An opportunity for students to understand the steps to brainstorming and prototyping an idea. One of these already happened on campus in a small scale, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapbut the hope is to have more in order to reach more students.&nbsp;">TechX</span></span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea">=<span style="font-size: 15px; fontx-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarge;">TechX is the culmination of the other two pieces. Once a student is introduced to the concept of a startup through MUBX, and is equipped with the tools to make the startup successful though LearnX they move onto TechX. TechX is a startup incubator modeled after Stanford’s StartX.</span>Strategy Six: StartupTech</span>==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarger;">TechX A Board of Directors for the program would consist of faculty involved in I&E on campus, a representative from the Houghton SmartZone and a student with startup and leadership experience. The board will provide a variety of resources be responsible for selecting the ventures to fledgling startups include in order to support their developmentthe program as well as monitoring the students participating in the program.</span></span>

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; white-space: prex-wrap; line-height: 1.15large;">SpaceStrategy Seven: Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea">==<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarge;">Like most Universities, space is in short supply at Michigan Tech. TechX provides startups with premier workspace featuring an open and flexible floor plan. This space will be designed to support a variety of team and individual work. A modern atmosphere and amenities will encourage Command the best startups to call TechX home.</span>Dialogue</span>===

== <span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="font-size: 15pxlarger; font-family: Arial; color: rgb">MUBX will be responsible for bringing the Three Day Startup (0, 0, 03DS); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentorshipevent to Michigan Tech’s campus. The goal of event will be to connect engineers who may be interested in working with a startup to business leaders with ideas that they’d love to see come to fruition.</span></span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarger;">A key component MUBX will work with the School of Business and Economics to support 3DS startups that leave the TechX program will be access event excited about starting a new venture by encouraging them to mentorship opportunities through enter in the University&nbsp;[http://www. These mentors may include one-on-ones with successful leaders in industry or faculty who have technical experience in the startup’s fieldmtu.<edu/business/newventure/span>New Venture Competition&nbsp;(NVC)].</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea">===<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarge;">Each startup will be assigned a handpicked team of advisors that will provide the startup with advice on running a startup, leading teams, raising capital, and so on.</span>TechMakers I&nbsp;</span>====

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pxlarger; font-weight: bold">TechMakers will be an extension of the TechHacks concept planned and executed by the&nbsp; white-space[https: pre-wrap//www.involvement.mtu.edu/organization/ACM Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)]&nbsp; line-height: 1chapter at Michigan Tech. MUBX will support ACM and expand the event to include all majors and facilitate creation across campus.15;">Funding</span> ==

<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8easize:small;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wraplarger;">While no significant funding will be provided Teams that move through the TechX 3DS program, small amounts of funds and are interested in competing in the NVC will be made available encouraged to teams attend TechMakers I as an opportunity to facilitate business growth. Funding may be allocated for travel, marketing materials, and business needs deliver a prototype to help get the startup off the groundNVC judges.</span>&nbsp;</span>

<span style== "font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-25542544-461b76d2-6f14b25c-0352ab8ba8eac680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechXBy pulling together existing classes and proposing new ones, the LearnX branch will empower students to take the next step.</span></span></span> ==

====<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8easize:large;"><span style="fontwhite-sizespace: 15px; fontpre-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)wrap; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept of TechX is still being developed. &nbsp;It is being designed by student entrepreneurs for students.Lean Startup</span></span>====

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Right now Michigan Tech doesn’t offer any comprehensive graphic design or marketing crash course. This (new) course will teach students the basics of the Adobe Creative Suite, as well as basic marketing psychology. The course instruction will center around working with real-world clients and applying the concepts to small businesses (start-ups) and student organizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span> ====<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Technology Commercialization</span></span></span>==== <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">As a continuation of a course already offered by Michigan Tech, this section will focus on how to transform research into a viable business. With a strong focus on customer voice and the business model canvas, this class will help researchers and innovators bridge the gap between idea and market success.</span></span> ====<font size="4"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Challenges Scholars Program</span></font>==== <span style="font-size:larger;">The Grand Challenges Scholars Program has five components: service learning, entrepreneurship, inter-disciplinary, research and a global dimension. Michigan Tech has the Pavlis Honors College that parallel this program closely with five pathways: service, innovation, industry, research and global. Michigan Tech also has a letter of commitment to the Grand Scholars Program. After attending the Global Grand Challenges Summit of 2015, a quote that resonated with me was: “inspiring the engineers of tomorrow”. In order to bring this back to Michigan Tech, myself and Amanda Moya, who was also able to attend the Summit, are in the process of inspiring students with the intent of bringing guest speakers to campus and implementing challenge programs in the Pavlis Honors College that allow students to begin working on projects and utilizing all their potential from day one of their time on campus.</span> <span style="font-size:larger;">Our first formal presentation of the idea is set for October 13^th, 2015. By the end of October 2015, we hope to have the necessary stakeholders from the College of Engineering and Pavlis Honors College supporting this strategy. Amanda and I are aiming to present our challenge program idea to the first-year students interested in the Pavlis Honors College and also to the members of the Pavlis Honors College at an all-cohort meeting before the end of the fall 2015 semester in order to introduce students to the idea. We hope to gain student interest and support of the challenge program with students outside the Pavlis Honors College by advertising the guest speakers through Student Activities, MUB Board and on-campus advertising. Before the end of the spring 2016 semester, the goal is to host the first guest speaker in order to gain momentum and keep student interest. If all goes well, we would like to have the challenge program in place for students to begin next year, fall 2016 semester, at the earliest.&nbsp;</span> ====<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Looking Forward</span></span>==== <span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">While these classes mark a great start in empowering students to extend their development in innovation and entrepreneurship, they won’t be enough in the long term. As a part of LearnX, faculty and staff will be encouraged to offer one-credit seminars in areas they’re passionate about. This could range from an exploration of Google Glass to a series of lectures on programming competitively.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This collection of courses is designed to give students who think they may be interested in innovation or entrepreneurship the opportunity to grow, and dabble, in a formalized setting.</span></span></span> ===<span style="font-size:large;">Support the Culture</span>=== ====<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechX</span></span></span>====  <spanstyle="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechX is the culmination of the previous two strategies. Once a student is introduced to the concept of a startup through MUBX, and is equipped with the tools to make the startup successful though LearnX, they move onto TechX. TechX is a startup incubator modeled after Stanford’s StartX.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechX will provide a variety of resources to fledgling startups in order to support their development.<br /><br />The concept of TechX is still being developed. &nbsp;It is being designed by student entrepreneurs, for students.</span></span></span> ====<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">Space</span></span>==== <span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Like most universities, space is in short supply at Michigan Tech. TechX will provide startups with premier workspace, featuring an open and flexible floor plan. This space will be designed to support a variety of team, and individual, work. A modern atmosphere and amenities will encourage the best startups to call TechX home.</span></span></span> ====<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Mentorship</span></span></span>==== <span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A key component to the TechX program will be access to mentorship opportunities through the University. These mentors may include one-on-ones with successful leaders in the industry, or faculty who have technical experience in the startup’s field.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Each startup will be assigned a handpicked team of advisors who will provide advice on running a startup, leading teams, raising capital, and so on.</span></span></span> ''<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: larger; background-color: transparent;">Mentorship & Student Ambassador Program</span>'<nowiki/>'''<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: larger; background-color: transparent;">:</span>''''' <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A common theme we have heard is that students don’t know about the resources available to them- including the interests and experience of fellow students. &nbsp;In order to help connect students to each other and to faculty mentors for projects, an online database system has been proposed. This searchable database would allow entrepreneurial students and faculty to identify their needs for like-minded business partners, or with a background in certain skills. The idea is to encourage collaboration of students across various departments. &nbsp;&nbsp;All users would have the option and ability to provide as little or as much information about their skills as they’d like, and also be able to tag themselves as having experience with various methods and materials, such as 3D printing, electronics, or marketing strategies.</span></span></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Another theme we heard is that students don't feel like they have support building social networks. To help with this, our idea was to create events that support new relationships in academics and personal life. The Student Ambassador Project would allow students to connect with students of the same major and learn about campus resources while networking.</span> ====<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">Funding</span></span>==== <span style="font-size:larger;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2554-461b-6f14-0352ab8ba8ea"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">While no significant funding will be provided through the TechX program, small amounts of funds will be made available to teams in order to facilitate business growth. Funding may be allocated for travel, marketing materials, and business needs to help get the startup off the ground.</span></span></span> ===<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">General Overview</span> </span>===

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