Hosted in the fall of each academic year, the Elevator Pitch Competition allows students to share product ideas, innovative services, or a startup plan at any stage of development. Students across all majors are encouraged to apply and it is open to students from Cal Poly, Cuesta and Allan Hancock College. First-round entries must be…
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Calling all Ambitious, Creative, and Entrepreneurially Minded People! Startup Marathon is a 54 hour-long event, typically held in November, in which developers, designers, and innovators meet for the first time and develop a business over the weekend. You will have the opportunity to pitch your idea on Friday night, everyone will vote, and the best…
Camp PolyHacks is a student-run, multidisciplinary hackathon dedicated to social entrepreneurship and human-centered design. Throughout this three-day event, Cal Poly students of all backgrounds work in teams to ideate, design, pitch, and market their solution to a problem facing the San Luis Obispo community. It’s a Learn by Doing marathon of collaboration, learning, and creativity.…
Located on Cal Poly’s campus in Building 2, Room 206, the CIE Hatchery is a student incubator, where students from all colleges and majors come together to gain hands-on experience launching a company. Through mentorship, weekly workshops and startup assignments, student entrepreneurs receive the resources they need to iterate faster and to find a sustainable…
Innovation Quest (iQ) empowers and supports innovators and entrepreneurs to build interdisciplinary teams to go from ideas to prototypes to companies. iQ is designed to encourage innovators to pursue their ideas and help with the funding needed to launch their business. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurial-minded students to showcase what they’ve built, coded, designed…
Innovation Quest FAQ Question: Do I have to be working on a technology company to compete? Answer: No. You have to be working on something innovative that has market potential. Students regularly work on technical, business models, and new product innovations. Question: I’m not that far along on my project yet, is it too early…
2022 Winners 1st Place Innovation Award: Adapted Mobility – a startup developing compact, capable and intuitive mobility devices from commercially available electric unicycles. 2nd Place Rich and Jackie Boberg Innovation Award: Fem Forward – a startup creating leak-proof period shorts for women to wear when sleeping during their menstrual cycle. 3rd Place Award: Grip Safe…
Online Submissions Due Wednesday, March 15 (11:59pm) Finalists Announced Week of March 27th Finalist Coaching and Mentoring Month of April Finalist Pitches & Awards Banquet Saturday, April 29
