= <span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-7707-4ff6-308a-b074e4499e49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview:</span></span>=
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-7707-4ff6-308a-b074e4499e49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose:</span></span>=
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-774d-06d9-7b81-0c4a7ad00285"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The goal of the RBPC is to provide the best overall educational and entrepreneurial experience of any business plan/new venture competition…”</span></span>
[http://alliance.rice.edu/Prizes/ <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://alliance.rice.edu/Prizes/</span>]
=== Sponsors<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span>===
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1-Service LLC</span></span></li>
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= <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Impact Achieved For Student and Campus:</span>=
=== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1;">Highlights of the Competition include:</span>===
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-774f-4ce2-fc53-6fa14d71f60e"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Real-world opportunities to gain the necessary knowledge that is required to successfully accelerate a new business.</span></span>
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-774f-4ce2-fc53-6fa14d71f60e"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recent recognition:</span></span>===
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-774f-4ce2-fc53-6fa14d71f60e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 Top Ten Best U.S. Graduate Entrepreneurship Program – Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine</span></span></li>
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= <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steps Required To Bring Resource On Campus:</span>=
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;">Detailed explanation on entering competition.</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-7756-bb71-952f-64d5630b2597"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://alliance.rice.edu/Compete/ http://alliance.rice.edu/Compete/]</span></span>
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= Contact Information:=
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rice Business Plan Competition, contact is at rbpc@rice.edu or you may call (713) 348-3443.<br/>Mailing Address<br/>Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship<br/>Rice University, MS-531<br/>PO Box 2932<br/>Houston, TX 77252-2932</span>