In the Real World teams are comprised of people with various professional backgrounds and expertise. Each person bringing complementary skills to the team. Typical group projects in college are done by a group with identical skills and knowledge, which results in a narrow set of possible experiences. That Aggie Ventures Initiative seeks to help faculty members provide real-world experiences by creating cross-campus collaborations for projects, big and small. Let Aggie Ventures help you make it happen!
TAVI Ventures
A Venture is any collaborative project between students in different programs. In many cases they will build something together. In some cases they'll learn something together. In every case they'll bring their unique skill set to a diverse team and accomplish something that is not possible in a regular class.
Program-Level Ventures
A Program-Level venture is one that brings students together from different departments to collaborate over many courses with each student earning credit towards their own major, even though they're working on the same project. Each course in the program is supervised and coordinated by faculty members from each department and each faculty member assess and assigns grades to students from their department.
Course-Level Ventures
A Course-Level venture is one the brings students together for a single semester in teams of diverse majors with each student earning credit towards their major. As with the Program-Level ventures, faculty members from each department supervise and mentor students.
Project-Level Ventures
Project-Level ventures are standalone projects or assignments within a course where students work with students in other courses from other programs.
FAQs
- Is this entrepreneurship? It can be, but at its core it is not. A Venture is just building something in a collaborative team.
- What course do students register for? Each student registers for a class in their own major and gets credit towards their major.
- Are all students graded the same? No. Each student is graded according to guidelines set by faculty in their major. Students work on joint projects, but will have responsibilities and learning outcomse specific to their major.
- Is this hard to do? The role of TAVI is to take away the burdensome overhead of finding collaborators and figuring out how to build and administer the collaboration. Faculty can focus on the project and learning outcomes for students, which is the fun and rewarding part of an Aggie Venture.
Join TAVI
We'd love to have you join The Aggie Ventures Initiative!