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[[File:Session4-banner.jpg|750px]]<br><br><div style="text-align:justify;">By now, you have spoken with lots of students, faculty and administrators at your school and, through your Landscape Canvas research, you have defined key gaps that point to opportunities to enrich the I&E ecosystem at your school. You've shared your research with UIF candidates from other schools and learned about what they discovered at their campuses. You have likely already considered potential solutions, some that are new and others that have been tried by Fellows on other campuses (see these [[:Category:Guides|Wiki-page]]s for inspiration).<br/div><br>As you move forward with implementing solutions for the opportunities you have uncovered, it's important to:#go beyond the first obvious solutions;#<brdiv style="text-align:justify;">#invest time and resources on a solution that will be well received by students, faculty and administrators and that will have real impact. What appears like a great solution in your mind might not work at all in practice, while an idea that didn't seem that good might turn into a success. The faster you test your idea with the people involved, the earlier you will know if you are on the right path. But if you ask people what they think about an abstract idea, all you are going to get are opinions. Very often others might not understand your idea (this is especially true when we talk about novel ideas). This is where prototyping adds great value. If you can make it easier for people to experience or at least visualize or imagine what your idea is about, you will get usable feedback. And this feedback is key in order to understand what aspects of your idea work well and which need improvement. Even more importantly, you may discover that there is a more interesting problem than the one you set out to address.</div><br><brdiv style="text-align:justify;">To help you do this, we invite you to put in practice the ideation and prototyping mindsets we explored in Session 2 (Design Thinking). Each teammate should prototype one project. By the end of the session, you should have four to five UIF projects outlined that have the potential to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on your campus.</div><br><br>