The Mason Innovation Exchange in Innovation Hall, or M.I.X.@Innovation Hall, is the first of Mason’s learning spaces intentionally designed for students, faculty and staff to come together for the express purpose of creating, building, problem-solving, and collaborating collectively.
The overarching vision for the M.I.X.@Innovation Hall is
- To build and maintain a place that affords collaboration on all forms of technology, culture, and craft in new and dynamic ways
- To freely share research and discoveries, using what is learned to teach others
- To encourage educational innovations, programmatic and otherwise, that capitalize on the affordances of the space
- To facilitate creative experimentation and launch innovative solutions and prototypes for contemporary challenges, especially in partnership with industry and community sponsors
- To strengthen alumni connections through entrepreneurial and mentorship opportunities
- To strengthen and expand the Mason Innovation Community in the greater metropolitan DC area
- To recruit and develop talented contributors devoted to these goals