Hosted in the fall of each academic year, the Elevator Pitch Competition allows both undergraduate and graduate students to share product ideas, innovative services, or a start-up plan at any stage of development. Students across all majors are encouraged to apply. First round entries must be submitted by video. Finalists selected to compete in the…
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Calling all Ambitious, Creative, and Entrepreneurially Minded People! Startup Weekend is happening Friday-Sunday, November 9-11th. Startup Weekend is a 54 hour long event 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…
Held annually, the Hackathon highlights the best of Cal Poly's Learn by Doing motto, giving students the opportunity to create, code, design and build with fellow students and experienced mentors. If you're a software engineer, web developer, graphic designer, marketer or startup enthusiast, come spend 12 hours to build a mobile app, web site or…
https://youtu.be/iQDBNL4nKEY The Hatchery is located in the Cotchett Education Building (building 2, room 206). It is an on-campus program that fosters entrepreneurship initiatives among the student body. The program is open to all Cal Poly students interested in learning how to take a business from idea generation to launch. Through the combination of mentorship, weekly…
https://youtu.be/CvxtlZMSa7w 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,…
2017 Winners 1st Place Innovation Award Pashion Footwear - Practical Fashion for the Women-On-The- Go https://pashionfootwear.com/ 2nd Place Rich and Jackie Boberg Innovation Award: Current Solutions - Personal Security Solution for College-Aged Women (Now Ulzi) https://ulzi.com/ 3rd Place Award: Brandplug - Pay-Per-Impression Social Media Celebrity-Marketing Platform https://brandplug.co/ 4rd Place Award: Atsa Foods - Foods Company…
Info Sessions Info Session #1 Thursday, November 29th 6:00 -- 7:30p.m. Building 2, Room 210 Info Session #2 Tuesday, January 29th 6:00 -- 7:30p.m. Building 2, Room 210 Info Session #3 Thursday, March 7th 6:00 -- 7:30p.m. Building 2, Room 210 Applications Due Wednesday, March 20th by 11:59 p.m. Finalists Announced Final Judging and Banquet Saturday,…
