Schedule

How It Works

• Submit an application.
• Submit your 1-2-page executive summary.
• Submit short answers to questions.

• 64 teams selected.
• Each team submits a 90-second video pitch.
• Judging is based on video pitch, application, executive summary and short answers.

• 42 semi-finalist teams selected and invited to campus.
• Each team submits a 5-page business plan by March 24, 2022.
• Teams are assigned times. Each team gets 5 minutes with judges for Q&A.
• Judging is based on business plan, Q&A, video pitch, application, executive summary and short answers.

• Each of the 42 teams is given a bracket with all 42 competing semi-finalist ventures.
• Watch the 90-second pitches, and read the executive summaries and short answers.
• 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.

• 42 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 April 2, 2022.

• 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 and business plans.
• The top 2 teams from the Lightning Round will move on to the final round on April 2, 2022.

• 8 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.