UW Badger Herald:
Hoping to claim one of the $300 grand prizes, aspiring entrepreneurs purchased items Friday at Memorial Union to create an invention for the Wiscontrepreneur 100-hour challenge.

The competition provides students with $10 vouchers to purchase supplies and gives them 100 hours to create and market a product.

University of Wisconsin’s Surplus With A Purpose brought a variety of surplus items from UW departments and state agencies to campus for UW students to buy with the voucher they received after registering for the challenge online.

‘It’s really challenging kids to be creative entrepreneurs and do something different with recycled stuff,’ said Doug Bradley, assistant director of marketing and communications for the UW Office of Corporate Communications.

Students are able to work in teams or individually and have until 10 p.m. tonight to submit their entries for the chance to win some money.

According to Bradley, winners will be selected in four categories: most revenue generated, most social value, most creative and a $100 ‘people’s choice’ prize for the student whose entry is visited most often on the Web site. Continued.

By MrMoney on April 23rd, 2008
In: Posts In English, Invention  | 

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