The Elevator Pitch Competition (EPC) is an annual event held during Fall Quarter, where Cal Poly students from all majors have 90 seconds to pitch an innovative product, service or startup idea for a chance to win cash prizes! It’s quick. It’s bold. And this year, it’s bigger than ever. Submit your first-round video pitch…
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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.…
The Hatchery, located within the Education Building (002-206), is the on-campus hub for entrepreneurial students led by the Cal Poly Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE). As part of the CIE, the Hatchery provides students from all majors with the tools and experience to turn ideas into student-led startups. The Hatchery connects students across majors…
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 innovations that they’ve built, coded,…
2025 Winners 1st Place Innovation Award: NeuroCom—a wearable tactile device that uses haptic feedback to enhance communication and situational awareness for military, law enforcement and first responders when visual or auditory cues fall short. Created by Alex Rosenbaum (Mechanical Engineering, '25) of Seattle, Washington 2nd Place Rich and Jackie Boberg Innovation Award: GreenSight Technologies—an AI-powered…
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…
