{"id":1712,"date":"2016-09-12T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ncsu.edu\/?p=206952"},"modified":"2016-09-12T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:44:19","slug":"pitches-prize-wheels-and-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/2016\/pitches-prize-wheels-and-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitches, Prize Wheels and Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4.jpg 992w, https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-452x254.jpg 452w, https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"right_content\">\n<div class=\"news_main_article\">\n<p>What do you get when you combine a pitch competition with cash prizes, live demos that feature everything from the latest virtual reality technology to toys redesigned for children with special needs, and a prize wheel you can spin to win all the t-shirts your heart desires?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ei.ncsu.edu\/entrepalooza.\" >Entrepalooza<\/a>, NC State&#8217;s entrepreneurship and innovation festival, is scheduled for 5 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Centennial Campus Oval. The NC State Entrepreneurship Initiative (EI) is partnering with IBM to host the event that drew more than 600 people to experience entrepreneurship last year.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepalooza includes interactive demonstrations and hands-on activities from NC State entrepreneurship programs and local innovation partners, all with opportunities and resources available to NC State students.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"news_img\"><a class=\"highslide \" href=\"https:\/\/www.wolftech.ncsu.edu\/towncrier\/tcwriter\/images\/2016\/09\/entrepalooza-8952-992x558.jpg\" ><span class=\"expand\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>Students can cut their entrepreneurial teeth in the Minute-to-Pitch-It competition, where contestants have one minute to convince the audience their idea is worthy of the $1,000 Audience Choice award. As an added bonus, IBM will award a Built-on-Cloud prize for its favorite pitch for a venture that uses IBM cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s winner, Oliver Walsh, a senior in electrical engineering, used the prize money to launch his app startup Sharefish, which now has approximately 1,000 downloads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Entrepalooza was an amazing experience because I had never been so nervous to do something I loved in my entire life &#8211; pitching,&#8221; Walsh says. &#8220;It allowed me to learn more about myself and how I react in high pressure situations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an emotional roller coaster and I loved every second of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4.jpg 992w, https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-452x254.jpg 452w, https:\/\/ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\">What do you get when you combine a pitch competition with cash prizes, live demos that feature everything from the latest virtual reality technology to toys redesigned for children with special needs, and a prize wheel you can spin to win all the t-shirts your heart desires? Entrepalooza, NC State\u2019s entrepreneurship and innovation festival, is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[397,181,398,399,172,182,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audience-choice-award","category-campus-life","category-centennial-camus","category-entrepalooza","category-events","category-graduate-students","category-news"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}