University Students participate in Innovation Competition
Monday, January 23, 2012
Marion, IN - The Grant County Economic Growth Council celebrates its sixth annual I-69 Collegiate Innovation Challenge on February 10-12 with twenty-five new students from Anderson University, Ball State University, Huntington University, Indiana Wesleyan University, and Taylor University. The Challenge will take place at the Ramada in Warsaw, Indiana.
Five students from each participating school are recognized and honored by their school to represent them at the Challenge. Each team with one student from each university has 24-hours to identify the best, for-profit solution to a current economic or domestic disaster within Indiana.
The students will be placed into teams Friday afternoon based on the Basadur Creative Profile, a problem-solving assessment, and will collaborate for less than 24-hours on a for-profit business solution to the "proposed" problem.
Saturday afternoon, the student teams will present their solution to a panel of designated judges. Following the presentations, the judges will select a winning team given specific criteria, such as: innovation, profitability, and market potential.
The Grant County Economic Growth Council developed this challenge six year ago to encourage entrepreneurship and innovative discussion among students along the I-69 corridors and create networking and collaboration opportunities for the students, judges, and personnel involved.
The Growth Council looks forward to celebrating another year of "innovative students" and plans to continue celebrating far into the future with the help of several dedicated and generous sponsors. This year's event is sponsored by: AT&T, Duke Energy, Indiana Michigan Power, Indiana Municipal Power Agency and Vectren.