Schedule

How It Works

• Submit an application.
• Submit your 1-2-page executive summary.
• Submit short answers to questions.
• 90-second video pitch
• Judging is based on video pitch, application, executive summary and short answers

• Semi-finalist teams selected, announced and invited to campus.
• Each team submits business plan by March 8.

• Each semi-finalist team is given a bracket with all competing semi-finalist ventures.
• Watch the 90-second pitches.
• Select the ventures you think will move on in each round, including the Grand Prize winner.
• Receive points for each round in which your chosen team(s) moves on.
• The team with the most points at the end of the competition wins $2,500.

• Semi-finalist teams pitch on campus.
• Teams get 10 minutes to pitch and 10 minutes of Q&A with judges.
• Judging is based on live pitches, Q&A, business plan, application, executive summary and short answers.
• The top team from each of the 6 flights moves on to the final round on March 24, 2024.

• The second place team from each flight that pitched earlier in the day will have the opportunity to pitch again to a different set of judges.
• Teams get 10 minutes to pitch and 10 minutes of Q&A with judges.
• Judging is based on live pitches, Q&A.
• The top 2 teams from the Lightning Round will move on to the final round on March 24, 2024.

• Finalist teams pitch to finalist judges.
• Teams get 10 minutes to pitch and 10 minutes of Q&A with judges.
• Judging is based on live pitches, Q&A and business plans.