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<\/picture><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-142ec6b83ed6953a39b31ef3b5d743e9\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-142ec6b83ed6953a39b31ef3b5d743e9{\npadding-bottom:0;\nfont-size:28px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-142ec6b83ed6953a39b31ef3b5d743e9 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-142ec6b83ed6953a39b31ef3b5d743e9 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:28px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-142ec6b83ed6953a39b31ef3b5d743e9 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n\n@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 767px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-142ec6b83ed6953a39b31ef3b5d743e9 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n\n@media only screen and (max-width: 479px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-142ec6b83ed6953a39b31ef3b5d743e9 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community and have 10 weeks to ideate, innovate and create a tangible product as a solution.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the process, each student works under ever-evolving assumptions to take on roles using the skills and talents they have learned across other courses on campus. Each entrepreneurial project entails self-directed management, timeliness and flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A natural entrepreneurial spirit,&#8221; characterizes the students of COMM424, said course instructor and regional business advocate Heather Stafford, &#8220;along with a keen understanding of purpose, project-based work, social media, and online marketing, and great confidence in themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Winter term, Comm majors Kayle Blackmore, Erika Soderstorm and Emily Callahan led a project that documented the devastating Camp wildfire. The fire swept through Redding, California in July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The team sought to tell the stories of the community, even after the cameras and news crews from mainstream journalism outlets are long gone. 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