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- I am so glad I am a part of

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the Graham Collaborative
Innovation Fellows.

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Our group is so diverse.

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It encompasses a wide variety of students

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from a lot of different backgrounds,

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and it brings a lot of
different point of views

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and ideas, together.

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- The Graham Collaborative
Innovation Fellows

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is a program that is designed

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for students who want to be extraordinary.

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Our tag phrase is designing
an extraordinary life.

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And the goal of this program
is to bring in students

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who are motivated to use their education

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as a springboard into their careers.

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The moment they walk on campus,

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get to work on actual programs
with community members,

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community leaders,

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and programs that they
themselves designed.

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- It really does foster great ideas

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when you have people with
different backgrounds,

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people who think differently,

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that's when you really can
innovate and create well.

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People care about each other.

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They want what's best for each other.

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And it comes back to the idea of a family.

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(students laughing)

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- If I weren't a Graham fellow,

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I don't know where I would
be in my college education.

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We have water and we have,
this is called biomass.

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I don't think I would have realized

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that I wanted to become an education major

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and to motivate kids to
like want to be creative

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and create something of their own.

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- The program takes
students' dreams and hopes,

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helps them articulate
them better, mentors them,

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and then eventually provides resources

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like global travel, travel
here in the country,

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funds for summer work, seed
money for a startup business.

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We add those things to their education

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that they don't get in their classes.

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- I do think any student could benefit

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from the Graham Innovation Fellows.

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I'm able to get along with everyone,

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experience different cultures,

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I'm able to share a part of
myself with the other students.

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So it was very inclusive.

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We're also having fun, creating new bonds,

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it's a good experience.

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(basketball thumping)

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- In one of my classes,

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I was able to use aspects
of design thinking

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combined with the
engineering design process.

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- Design thinking is human
centered problem solving.

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It's about listening to the community

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about listening to individuals.

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It's really about putting yourself

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in the shoes of the people
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to design for,

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create a solution or a program for.

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- There's always this
excitement when we come in,

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we do our design thinking.

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It takes a little bit of chaos and working

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through it a little bit at the beginning,

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but it's always a good time.

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A lot of cool ideas come out of it.

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And it's great growing their
relationships for the program.

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- The Marketview Arts is a
York College owned building

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that is in the heart of downtown.

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And we worked on making it a storefront.

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I've never worked to create a business.

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It taught me a lot of
responsibility and a lot leadership.

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So it's so rewarding when
you get to see your plans

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become a real thing.

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And that all is possible with
the Graham Fellow program.

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- Being on a retreat is so exciting.

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Creativity flows free,
collaboration is awesome.

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- I think the most exciting
thing about the retreat

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is just the opportunity to
connect with other fellows.

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You're getting to do hands-on stuff.

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You're getting to think for
things with fellow students,

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with fellow faculty,

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it's lessons I'm learning
that I'm able to take back

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into the classroom as well.

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So really cool and really valuable.

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So then why did we change the (indistinct)

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- The retreat is really a time

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where we kind of drop
everything else we're doing

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and just focus on a project.

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It's also a lot of fun getting
to hang out with professors

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outside of class,

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creating those relationships
is really important

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to bridge the gap between
faculty and students.

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- This is a program that ultimately

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is about entrepreneurial mindset

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and innovative thinking.

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And taking students abroad,

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gets them to think about
innovation and creativity

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in a different way.

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Kathy Cooper set up a trip
to Liberia, her home country

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to learn about the healthcare system.

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And it was absolutely amazing.

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The students become leaders.

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- As entrepreneurship coach

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you should always be thinking
about testing something here

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that you can sell later.

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Tim Dexter came to the college

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as an expert in our core.

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And his goal was to be
able to create his own gym.

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He worked with some of
the business faculty

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as well as the Graham program.

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And before he graduated, he
had opened his gym already.

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Students who have come to us
with a dream have succeeded

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in achieving it.

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- I would definitely recommend

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the Graham Collaborative
Innovation Fellows.

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You get this awesome
opportunity to do projects

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and initiatives on campus

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and to learn this design thinking process

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and you have an awesome team of mentors,

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and it's really made all the difference

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in my experience here.

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And I know it will for all
the other students involved.

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