We first would like to thank Cassie Hagan and Bryan Biddle for running the Business Immersion Program and allowing the Junior Innovation Consultants to gain invaluable experience that will help us as we begin to work on engagement projects over the next three years. We would also like to thank the pitch judges, Anna Burk, Ron Dostal ‘92, Tony Unfried ’03, Hugh Vandivier ’91, and Mike Simmons ‘88, for the invaluable advice and feedback that they all gave to each of the different 5 pitch teams.
Through the Business Immersion Program, the Junior Innovation consultants have been working together in teams to come up with a business to pitch to a panel of judges and an audience of students, faculty and staff, and Crawfordsville community members. For the first time ever, the pitch competition happened in the Hoosier Heartland State Bank Center for Success.
The business ideas the students came up with ranged from a die table-making company to a college moving service. The company names were Move U, Lesson Link, Die-Up, Rendezvous, and Playgrounds. The students learned about marketing, building financial models, project management, how to conduct market research, and other useful skills to help us during this process of coming up with a business idea, creating, and giving a successful pitch.
We want to end this by once again thanking Cassie Hagan and Bryan Biddle. We would also like to thank all of the alumni and friends of the college who took time out of their day to speak to us and teach us useful skills that we will be using not only through the next three years that we are in the CIBE but also through our journey out of college. We would like to end this by thanking the donors that made this program possible through their very generous donations.
