Student Ideas Wanted!
Heather Miller, Outreach Facilitator
Marietta College is hosting their annual Junior PioBiz Competition this spring. This virtual event is being sponsored by the Riverview Credit Union Mid-Ohio Valley Entrepreneurship Expo. High school students who have an idea to solve a problem can present their solution and compete for prizes. They can compete on their own or in a team consisting of up to five members. There is a Zoom workshop entitled Where do worthy entrepreneurial ideas come from? on February 4 at 4:30 p.m. for students/teams who are interested in learning more and brainstorming ideas. Students can register for this pre-event workshop here.
If students are interested in competing, they must ask their school to fill out an Intent to Compete Form on their behalf by February 8. Each student/team must then fill out and submit an application by March 29. The application questions include:
The project (product or service) name and description
The nature of the problem that the proposed product or service solves
The demographic characteristics of people with this problem
The way the problem is currently solved
The description of the way the proposed product or service solve the problem
The description of how this product solves the problem better than the alternative (existing) solutions.
The Junior PioBiz Competition will be via Zoom on April 8 starting at 4:30 p.m. Each student/team will have 3 minutes to present their idea to the judges, followed by a 3 minute Q&A session with the judges.
All students/teams will receive a Marietta College gift bag for competing. The teams with the top five ideas will receive a certificate of achievement and a monetary team prize ranging from $50 to $250. The student members of the team with the top idea will also receive a free 3-credit hour college class.
For more information about Junior PioBiz, please contact Dr. Jacqueline Khorassani at khorassj@marietta.edu or text her at 740.516.0374.. You can find additional information about Junior PioBiz at www.marietta.edu/jr-piobiz.
See past Junior PioBiz award winners from 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.