Overview

Congratulations to this year's winners!

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2013 Student Innovation Challenge Winners
1st Place	Gabriel Castanon	Ventorosso - Wine aerator
2nd Place	Elton Lu & Yahoel Van Essen	Apparel Exclusive
Best Pitch	Tyler Basu	Chatting With Champions
Applied Research Prize	Aaron Hufsmith, Tariq Shobab Clayton Mcmunn	3rd Wheel Innovations
Best Business Plan	Nalumbikya Mgana	SENN Software

Thanks to all who submitted their idea to the Student Innovation Challenge!

Background

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BCIT’s Student Innovation Challenge is an annual innovation contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to BCIT students who have “big ideas”.  Since its founding, the Student Innovation Challenge has inspired innovative and high-impact students and projects. By seeking out novel ideas and then supporting efforts to help them succeed, we make BCIT students’ BIG IDEAS soar.

What’s the BIG IDEA?

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Calling all BCIT students full & part-time!

Are you an Innovator? Entrepreneur? Visionary? Interdisciplinary team?

Here is your opportunity to win up to $10,000!

BCIT students are among the best and brightest BC has to offer. From trades to engineering to computer studies, our students have it all covered and are designed to innovate. We know the next Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder) or Ryan Holmes (Hootesuite founder) is somewhere on our campus on the cusp of creating the next big thing. We want to reward innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit with over $10,000 in prizes available.

Your idea could be:

• a new product
• a new service
• a new social enterprise
• a new start-up business
• an enhancement to an existing product or service

To reward our contest's brightest innovators, we are offering up to $10,000 in cash and services! More importantly, we are giving you an opportunity to harness your creativity and showcase your entrepreneurial spirit. This could be the first step to fame, fortune and living out your dream.

Don't forget to attend the Business Basics For Innovation series designed to increase your chances of success!

Prizes

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Participants/Teams can earn prize money via these avenues:

Student Innovation Challenge Winner:

• The winner of this competition will be the idea deemed most likely to succeed as a business venture in the current market.
• The winner of this round will win $1500 CASH and be eligible to receive up to an additional $8500 to be spent commercializing their idea.

2nd Runner Up:

• The winner of this award will be the second best idea deemed most likely to succeed as a business venture in the current market.
• The winner of this round will win $1000 CASH and be eligible to receive up to an additional $8500 to be spent commercializing their idea.

Great Student Project/Applied Research Project:

• BCIT students deliver great projects every year from their classes. If you think you have an innovative project on the go, submit it for your chance to win the applied research prize. We are looking for BCIT’s top students delivering industry solutions.
• The winner of this round will win $500 CASH.

Great Business Plan:

• The best Business Plan submitted to the Challenge will win this award.
• The winner of this round will win $500 CASH.