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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear undergraduates,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What would you do if you could do anything?</span>
<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">stops </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">us</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">;
what makes us? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From curiosity to idea to execution, through the best of times and the hardest of times, screw ups and scale ups, across the whole spectrum of innovation,
the <b>UA Innovation Committee</b> serves to support you, your ideas, and your growth as you dare to change the world.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">True innovation comes when students have open access to resources, knowledge, financing, and spaces, in a culture of play, hacking, and giving things
a go, and within a diverse community that both challenges and fosters. That is our vision. We work with everyone – individual students, groups, administrators, the greater community, industry, and governments – over timescales of days to decades, considering
everything from cafés to libraries to makerspaces, grants to competitions to venture capital, academic programs to international experiences, to tackle the toughest otherwise underserved challenges.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Join the UA Innovation Committee! We are still growing our capacity and would love to work with all who are interested. Just <a href="mailto:ua-innovation@mit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">e-mail
us</span></a> and let’s talk! There is no form to fill out, and no application to worry about – just say hello and let’s see what we can make happen.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Be
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">bold!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Regards - and have a wonderful week,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Malte Ahrens '17</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On behalf of the UA Innovation Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ua-innovation@mit.edu" target="_blank">ua-innovation@mit.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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