E-Fest is a celebration of undergraduate entrepreneurship. E-fest is open to Undergraduate college students from around the country. Finalists will have the chance to compete for over $250,000 in grants and scholarships at a three-day celebration of undergraduate entrepreneurship April 6-8, 2017, in Minneapolis.
E-Fest, sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship education, will celebrate 25 student teams who submit the best business ideas in a preliminary competition. The event will feature workshops, an Innovation Challenge and keynote speeches from Schulze himself, who is founder and chairman emeritus of Best Buy, Inc., and Daymond John, founder of FUBU and a regular on television's Shark Tank. The 25 student teams will receive $2,000 travel stipends and hotel will be provided.
Awarding Entrepreneurial Excellence
Students with the three best business ideas will receive $100,000, $50,000 and $25,000, respectively, in prizes, with an additional $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 in grants going to their respective universities to support entrepreneurship education. A Friday night Innovation Challenge will respectively award $20,000, $10,000 and $5,000 in scholarships to student teams who develop the best solution to a business challenge posed that evening.
How to Enter
Universities wishing to participate must register at EIX.org. Student teams must develop and submit a seven-minute video and 15-slide presentation detailing their business ideas by February 17, 2016. Complete entry information and contest rules are available in on EIX.org
Please consider entering teams. This is far more than just a business plan competition. This is going to be a unique event.