Student Innovation Team

The Student Innovation Team is a group of highly motivated student designers from a diverse array of majors, backgrounds, and class levels. The Innovation Team utilizes strategies such as design thinking, systems thinking, and lean six sigma to work within MSU on projects and learning experiences targeted towards students. Project partners we have worked with in the past include the MSU Computer Store, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Global Center for Food Systems Innovation, and MSU Career Services.

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Background

Many students on campus know the experience of receiving survey after survey in their inbox. Most go unopened, depriving departmental and educational initiatives targeted at students devoid of needed student feedback. The Student Innovation Team not only provides MSU departments and organizations with the feedback and recommendations necessary, but also teaches students how to create personas, conduct user interviews, create value and growth hypotheses, and, overall, exposes them to experience design and systems thinking strategies that they can use in their future careers.

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How to Join

The Student Innovation Team will be recruiting starting at the beginning of the 2017-18 school year. The team works for about 10-11 weeks during each semester. To join, come to one of our recruitment events and we will send you a link to our online application. More information to come.

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Work with Us

If you are looking to work with the Student Innovation Team, contact Linda Lay (laylinda@msu.edu) or the MSU Hub. We work on many projects over the course of a semester, but plan the roster in advance. At the end of our work on a project, we do presentations on the research and recommendations that we have created, and will send you a copy of the documents. The team is currently accepting and reviewing requests for Fall 2017.