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accelerateOSU Pitch and Poster Competition announces Top 3 winners

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Teams prepared a five minute pitch along with a poster to present to a panel of judges at the inaugural Pitch and Poster Competition.

Oklahoma State University student groups of hipsters, hackers and hustlers rehearsed their pitches and refined their business ideas to compete in the inaugural Pitch and Poster Competition hosted by accelerateOSU.

The competition divided student groups in to three tracks: Hipsters (STEM or high-tech products), Hackers (application or web-based solutions), and Hustlers (physical products or retail). Each team was required to create a poster and present their pitch to the judges.

"I am so glad we brought the Pitch and Poster Competition back to OSU,” said Haley Keith, coordinator for accelerateOSU. “It was accelerateOSU's first time hosting it and we wanted to make sure that the high-energy entrepreneurial buzz was felt throughout the competition. The students came up with some pretty amazing ideas that rounded out the three tracks, Hipster, Hacker, and Hustler. It was such a joy to see the students come together to share their ideas and prepare to pitch. We look forward to watching them grow and compete again this spring in the Business Plan Competition."

The winners in each track are:

Hipster Track 1st Place: Quantum Dots

Hipster

1st Place: Quantum Dots – Imran Selim, Misti Quiring and Solmaz Bostani

2nd Place: GE-TEK – Sangeetha Komanduri, Niloufar Mehrafza and Vivek Singh

3rd Place: PREDICT – Kunal Bhosale, Minu Pilvankar, Joyjit Saha and Swaraj Meher

Hacker Track 1st Place: Artemis

Hacker

1st Place: Artemis – Brendan Duke

2nd Place: Park-IT – Archana Chinnaswamy and Swarup Jacob

3rd Place: Cloth-AR – Omid Darbandi

Crowd Favorite: Plus+ Donations – Harsh Gupta, Hacker track

Hustler Track 1st Place: Dynamic Duo

Hustler

1st Place: Dynamic Duo – Madison Kimble

2nd Place: Lockett Arts – La Daryn Lockett

3rd Place: Cajun Composting – Damien Davis

 

To learn more about accelerateOSU, visit http://business.okstate.edu/entrepreneurship/accelerateosu/index.html

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