ATLANTA/MACON – Mercer Innovation Center is trying to get learners with modern small business tips to take part in its digital Elevator Pitch Competition to be held Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. via Zoom.
At the moment enrolled Mercer undergraduate and graduate learners from all campuses, majors and course several years are qualified to enter. Winners will receive up to $500 in prizes for their suggestions.
“The target for the Elevator Pitch Competition is for our pupils to have a discussion board to follow evidently describing their suggestions and to get suggestions,” stated Dr. Briana Stenard, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship in the Stetson-Hatcher Faculty of Business. “The notion driving an elevator pitch is that you could get in the elevator with anyone and have described your idea so successfully and concisely that, by the time you received up to their floor, they would be intrigued enough to want to study far more.”
Students might enter the levels of competition until Feb. 12 by publishing a quick registration type at mic.mercer.edu beneath the “Elevator Pitch Competition” tab at the leading of the web page.
On registering, a video pitch submission of two minutes or significantly less is due Feb. 19.
“If college students have an strategy they have been thinking about, we want them to acquire the first phase and submit their notion to the level of competition,” reported Dr. Stenard. “This 12 months, just one of our primary targets is interdisciplinary concepts, and we would like pupils from all around the College to enter. This is a person of the explanations we will be awarding a number of winners, to test to encourage a diverse established of new thoughts. We are fired up to see what our students appear up with!”
The Elevator Pitch Competition precedes Mercer Innovation Center’s once-a-year Upcoming Huge Idea Levels of competition, which will get area April 16. College students are eligible to enter tips into each contests. Upcoming Big Strategy entries need a a lot more in-depth pitch, including an on line software, one-website page business canvas and government summary.
For far more information on the Elevator Pitch and Next Large Notion competitions, email [email protected], or speak to Dr. Stenard on the Atlanta campus at [email protected] or Stephanie Howard, director of the Mercer Innovation Centre, on the Macon campus at [email protected].
About the Mercer Innovation Centre
The Mercer Innovation Middle is an work by Mercer College, alongside with community associates these types of as the Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority, Birch Communications, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Dr. Hugh F. Smisson III, to advance a culture of innovation and establish a flourishing local community of business people, with a aim on utilizing know-how to foster financial advancement, make 21st century work and catch the attention of and retain expertise. The Centre is an institutional work – led by the Stetson College of Business and Economics – that crosses educational disciplines and geographic boundaries to attract from all of the University’s faculties, colleges, departments and functioning models. Group memberships are readily available, as the Center’s actions and sources are meant to be obtainable to Mercer learners and non-students alike. For more details, stop by mic.mercer.edu.