Creating a World of Opportunity - Entrepreneurship for Everyone
Interested in winning $2,000? Are you creative? Good under pressure?
Canisius Entrepreneurs Organization & CPLD Present:
The 2009 Empire Creativity Competition
Business Idea Elevator Pitch Competition
The Empire Creativity Competition presents teams of students with an opportunity to pitch their business idea to a panel of judges and a chance to win cash prizes. Ideas may be at any stage of development from creation of concepts or ideas to an established business. The 2007 Canisius College team team competed against 120 teams nationally to place in the final 10.
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 3:00pm, Competitor Orientation
4:00pm, Competition
5:00pm, Awards Dinner
Place: Regis South, Richard E. Winter '42 Student Center
Registration Fee:
$30 for an individual participant
$20 per person on a team (maximum of 3 people per team)
Registration Guidelines:
Please completely fill out and submit the online registration form below. The registration deadline is September 18, 2009.
Click on the links below to view videos of sample elevator pitches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq0tan49rmc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26526805#29330212
For more information, please contact Dr. Kim at kim15@canisius.edu.
For detailed information regarding the Empire Creativity Competition in PDF format, please click here.
The 2009 Empire Creativity Competition is sponsored by the Canisius Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO), the office of Campus Programming & Leadership Development, the Entrepreneurship Major in the Department of Management and Marketing, and the Richard J. Wehle School of Business.
Register Here