@ the HUB

An on campus and online community for innovation using Design Thinking and emerging technologies.

Mission

To advance research, innovation, and education by bringing together faculty and students across disciplines to confront the vexing, complex, and wicked challenges of our day using Innovation Frameworks and Emerging Technologies.

Vision

Students from all disciplines working together to combine their unique expertise and perspectives under the guidance of experienced mentors to create novel and effective solutions to the vexing, complex, and wicked problems of our day.

Get Started

Connect with us. Follow us on social media, sign up for email announcements, and drop by for activities on-site!

Start Exploring our online trainings, tutorials, labs, games, lunches, competitions, workshops, the Innovation Minor and other courses offered.

Get to know our facility, team, and the Seminole Innovators. Maybe even join our team as a student intern, graduate assistant, or Innovator Residence.

Transdisciplinary discovery, design, and innovation to confront the vexing, complex and wicked challenges of our day.

Services

 

The Innovation Hub opened in January of 2018 through a $2.5 million investment by the Provost to deepen FSU’s distinctive commitment to continuous innovation in undergraduate education. While “The Hub” serves as home to many innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology courses, it’s strongest impact is in the following areas:

Co-curricular Opportunities

The Hub offers many educational activities that compliment students’ traditional learning and add valuable skills to their professional portfolio. Workshops, online tutorials, badges, and fun events like hackathons, shark tanks, and design sprints provide students with opportunities to connect, network, and level-up.

 

Cutting Edge Resources

We have study rooms, conference rooms, classrooms, and event space to support a wide variety of innovation activities. Our Digital Fablab provides access to 3D printing, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, electronics, robotics, and drone technology. Our XR lab has every popular VR, and AR headset. Stop by! We’ll get you started!

Experiential Learning

Built on a foundation of Design Thinking, students become experienced at working in groups collaboratively to confront wicked problems. Our student consulting teams apply their skills on problems presented by corporate partners and government agencies for impact in the real world.

 

Better Together

Many of our educational events, activities and programs are provided by our partner departments and student organization (RSO) affiliates. If you’re part of an innovative organization, we invite you to make the Innovation Hub your home. That’s why they call us “The Hub!”

Personalized Support

We support the creative and innovative needs of our campus community. Whether a student needs advice on a new invention, a teacher wants to add a VR or 3D printing project to a class, or a grad student needs to design custom lab equipment, we’re here to work with you to help you succeed!

 

Innovation Ecosystem

The Innovation Hub is an active partner of the greater Tallahassee/Leon County Innovation Ecosystem! We work with the Jim Moran College, the Tallahassee Mayor’s Office, the Leon County Office of Economic Vitality, DOMI Station, TCC Center for Innovation, and other schools, businesses and organizations to promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship across the region.

 
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“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein

Hallmarks of The Hub

Design Thinking

It all begins with Empathy. Understanding a problem from a very human and personal perspective. Then working with your team to properly frame the problem through the insight you’ve gained. After that the fun part begins - focussing all your creative energy on developing novel and impactful solutions and choosing the best to prototype and test to perfection. Check out our Design Thinking class - ENT3607 Innovation by Design, and online lessons, and come join us at our next Design Sprint.

Emerging Technologies

The world’s problems are more vexing and complex than ever. We need to leverage new and powerful technologies to develop effective solutions. The Hub introduces students to those technologies. Whether you want to prototype inventions in our Digital Fablab, explore virtual environments and objects in VR and AR, code apps, games, drones, or machine intelligence, or build robots, we have the gear that is sure to capture your imagination. No experience required. Check out IDS 2141 Innovation with Emerging Technologies to learn them all!

Expertise

We’re here to get you started. We have some of the most innovative faculty, staff, and students from across a network of over 20 FSU departments anxious to engage you with 21st century skills. We also have Innovators in Residence who are building teams of students to take on real world projects. Check out our Team page to learn about all who are involved. Just stop by and introduce yourself, and we’ll take it from there.

“All genuine learning is active not passive.”

— Mortimer Adler

Innovation Hub Partners

 

Innovation Hub partners support The Hub with critical resources and provide educational opportunities for our students. Partners serve on The Hub Steering Committee to help guide our direction. We wouldn't exist without our partners.

Founding Partners

Our Founding Partners have made significant contributions towards the Hub's creation, maintenance, and operations.