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Innovation Activities

Try out some of our activities—designed to spark creativity, foster collaboration, and help you imagine bold new possibilities for the future!

Whether you want to energize a team, reframe a challenge, or experiment with fresh ideas, these innovation activities make it easy (and fun!) to get started.

Explore some of our favorites below!


Two students sitting down facing each other. One is talking the other is listening while smiling

Talk to a Terp

Conduct five* 20-minute Interviews with students. Create snapshots like these

- 5 interviews is a solid goal

- 10 interviews are each AIE team member’s goal

- 20 interviews are the goal that heroes are made of

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Shadow a Terp!

Spend the day shadowing another Terp (student, faculty, or staff!) as they go about a typical day. Inspired by this Shadow-a-Student event, we did a #shadowacollegestudent version of this in 2017. See some of our observations here.

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Reflect-a-palooza

Reflect on your Talk to a Terp and/or Shadow a Terp experiences or reflect on your work this semester or academic year.

Check out the reflection tools
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