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Regional winners advance to statewide pitch competition
Inside Indiana Business (Alex Brown) - Indianapolis-based The STARTedUP Foundation has announced the 10 regional winners of the Innovate WithIN Pitch Competition. The winners will advanced to the state competition next month to complete for a $25,000 seed funding grand prize. Teams of up to three high school students are given the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges comprised of entrepreneurs and business leaders.
The STARTedUP Foundation announces ten regional winners for the Innovate WithIN pitch competition
The Innovate WithIN pitch competition aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship among Indiana students. The competition provides students with the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges made up of experienced entrepreneurs and business leaders.
IPS students make history with IndyGo app idea
Fox59 - Indianapolis - A group of IPS students is making history in a statewide business competition with an idea that they discovered rolling down the streets of Indianapolis. Kieron Bishop and his teammates Liam Green and Leland Rowe are the first IPS students to ever make it to Regionals in the Innovate WithIn Pitch Competition.
Innovate WithIN high school pitch competition to be hosted by Purdue Fort Wayne
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WFFT) - STARTedUP Foundation's "Innovate WithIN" high school pitch competition will be hosted by Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). The Innovate WithIN program is the largest high school pitch competition in the country and this month consists of 51 teams competing across the state. PFW is hosting the Region 5 competition on its campus on April 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the International Ballroom at Walb Student Union.
TEDxPurdueU: An Entrepreneurial Way of Being - Finding Ikigai through Innovation
STARTedUP’s CEO and co-founder, Don Wettrick, shares about the importance that an entrepreneurial mindset has on empowering the next generation.
STARTedUP Foundation announces 2023 Innovate WithIN regional competitors
STARTedUP Foundation announces 2023 Innovate WithIN regional competitors
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STARTedUP Foundation, Purdue announce pitch competition regional qualifiers
Purdue Business - West Lafayette, Indiana - With nearly 2,500 statewide sign ups, the STARTedUP Foundation’s Innovate WithIN program is the largest high school pitch competition in the country. During the month of April, 52 teams across Indiana will be competing at Purdue to qualify for the state competition with the top two teams from each region progressing onto state.
Salesforce, Elevate Ventures, STARTedUP Foundation support IPS students' entrepreneurial process
IPS students are mentored by Salesforce staff and local leaders as they continue to build their pitch for Innovate WithIN
Indiana Department of Education, STARTedUP Foundation launch the country’s first-ever state-certified educator fellowship
The Indiana Innovation Educator Fellowship is the country’s first teacher-focused ambassadorship program hosted by the Indiana Department of Education and managed by The STARTedUP Foundation.
Motor Valley increasingly international: delegation of American students visiting Dallara.
Motor Valley Magazine - A group of American students from Indianapolis, winners of a competition on innovation held by the Startedup Foundation in collaboration with the State of Indiana, had the opportunity, along with 2 teachers and 3 representatives of American institutions, to learn the secrets of Motor Valley by visiting the Dallara Academy and the Innovation Farm, as well as the Ducati, Lamborghini, Pagani and Ferrari museums.