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MIMIC home	Workshop Description Making Industry Meaningful In College (MIMIC) is a multi-disciplinary project at Illinois Valley Community College that places students in engineering design, electronics and business into student "companies" to design, prototype, manufacture, market and sell products. The one-semester project emphasizes teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills. MIMIC has been successful since the start, winning a Connections Award for Innovative Curriculum Integration in its first year. MIMIC, currently supported by a National Science Foundation grant, is also a cost-effective and highly adaptable project model. This workshop is designed for instructors and administrators in high schools and community colleges who are interested in establishing a simple, cost-effective multi-disciplinary project that engages students in simulated workplace experiences. Workshop participants will learn to adapt the MIMIC model to include students from various disciplines and to organize and assess a similar project.
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MIMIC Workshop

Workshop Objectives

Participants will

Learn to team students from a number of fields or courses to provide them with simulated workplace experiences.
Learn to organize a simple, cost-effective project that provides students with entrepreneurial experience in making products, providing a service, or developing a business.
Learn to effectively integrate workplace skills into a project.

Participants will develop their own project ideas and will emerge from the workshop with a plan for adapting the MIMIC model to their students and their college or high school setting. Participants will receive a stipend for submitting a copy of their plan and signing a release allowing it to be disseminated.