Pilot Test Run of MEU ALMAYARA Startup Innovation Competition as Core Requirement of Business Curriculum at MEU

Chan Shun Hall Room 208

The competition aims to engage the powers of innovation and the magic of entrepreneurship to endure by transforming an innovative idea into a sustainable real opportunity. Each team proposes an area of expertise where they will grow their opportunity during the following 6 months in 3 phase stages of idea development after participating in 3 start-up coaching seminars in 3 phases: Phase 1: Workshop 1 on VALUE PROPOSITIONS; Phase 2: workshop 2 on SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; Phase 3: Workshop 3, ORAL PITCH DELIVERY, culminating in Team oral contest in General Assembly at the end of Spring semester Context is MEU campus-wide entrepreneurial start-up business plan competition during the academic year 2021-2022. The target audience is the MEU community at large: students, faculty, alumni, leadership, and administration. Topics of interest may include computer coding, network gaming, crisis management, agri-business, micro-finance, social media, paramedics, social participation, public health, sustainable volunteering, relief philanthropy, branding design, micro-finance, philosophy of ethics, leadership. Prize Awards include 1) MEU certificates for all, and certificates of award for winners; 2) MEU transcript recognition for graduate or undergraduate credit; 3) Cash prize for top 3 teams; 4) Coaching and business mentoring for potential winners; and 5) Possible Seed fund financing for final selection entries.