The Elevator Pitch Competition (EPC) is an annual Fall Quarter competition where students of any major can pitch their innovative product, service and startup ideas in 90 seconds for the chance to win cash prizes. First-round entries are submitted by video. Finalists compete in front of an audience and a panel of judges. The competition's…
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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 innovations that they’ve built, coded,…
2023 Winners 1st Place Innovation Award: BioGlyph — a software that streamlines the process of biologic, or medicine, development and iteration — as well as user modification tools — by allowing researchers to easily shift between visual, markup, and serial representations of medications developed from living organisms. Created by biology senior McClain Kressman and Nico…
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…
