The Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation hosted its annual venture pitch competition, Pilot Venture Challenge, on Saturday, April 29, in Dundon-Berchtold Hall. This year 26 students participated, pitching 12 entries.
Students competed in three different tracks—Invention, which highlights creativity, invention, and innovation; Social, which encourages students to use entrepreneurial and business principles to organize, create, and manage a sustainable enterprise that has a positive social impact; and For-Profit.
Students, judges, and guests joined together to hear and see the 10-minute presentations followed by 5 minutes of Q&A by the track judges. All entries were judged by expert panels of alumni and community business leaders.