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Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
== Tactic #1: maryland Design Impact Lab (mDIL) <br/> == Maryland Design Impact Lab [mDIL] is a cross-disciplinary collaborative focused on leveraging the diverse expertise of students and using design-thinking methods to create social change at multiple scales. This student led organization was founded in Fall 2013 and hosted the first “Design Tent” in January 2014. Moving forward, mDIL will host Design Tents throughout each semester at the University of Maryland, College Park. School is a time to test, create, experiment and take initiative. [mDIL] attracts students interested in social change facilitated by designing, making, building, prototyping, and entrepreneurship. The organization strives for an environment that fosters creative thinking through design and is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines and years ranging from freshman to Doctoral candidates. *Who can qualify for membership: ANY University of Maryland student.*Member candidate qualities: Commitment, curiosity, and critical thinking! It is not only exciting to be activated, as students, to generate ideas, now you have a chance to put those ideas into action, to implement and thereby create impact by following through with an idea.*Team Leader: Valerie Sherry*Contact Information: [[Vsherry@umd.edu]] or design.impact.lab@gmail.com*Milestones:**Constition and bylaws written to register as a university organization**Recruit members from across the university**Recruitment through table and prototyping in Stamp Student Union (3d printed giveaways)**Recruitment through faculty and student leaders in each school/discipline**Recruitment through Design Tent Workshop Weekend **Assemble a Faculty Advisory team, "The Faculty Force" from (varied disciplines)**Arrange permission to use a space or group of spaces for meetings or fabrication**Hold a first meeting**Launch via hack-a-thon or brainstorming session**Second Meeting, Use OpenIDEO program for starting prompts**Write grant(s) for resources**Seek out local partnerships to aid communities
== Tactic #2: Winter Term Interdisciplinary EdxIE Applied Course (Engineering, Design Thinking x Innovation Entrepreneurship)<br/> ==