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== [https://www.jmu.edu/cob/centers/center-for-entrepreneurship/students/competitions.shtml Competitions]: ==
BizBlitz
*BizBlitz is JMU’s first full scale “Startup Weekend” style events for entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, makers, and others who want to pitch a startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. At BizBlitz, teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote), and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend culminates with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders for another opportunity for critical feedback.
Innovation X
*Innovation Xis a 24-hour hackathon facilitated by X-Labs. Teams of students from all majors and backgrounds are guided by mentors and are encouraged to create and compete. Idea and product generation areas include food/agriculture, healthcare, and consumer devices and tools.
I.C.C.E Pitch Competition & Conference
*The I.C.C.E Pitch Competition and Conference is a high energy evening celebrating JMU Entrepreneurs and featuring: JMU Student Pitch Competition, I.C.C.E Talks, networking with entrepreneurial alumni, faculty, and students.
MadHack
*MadHack was JMU’s first full-scale hackathon, sponsored by Capital One, offering a creative and collaborative software development experience. For 24 hours students built innovative web and mobile apps, as well as hardware.
Startup Studio
*Startup Studio is a rapid-pitch event hosted by the Society of Entrepreneurs semi-regularly. In the confines of two hours, students meet, split into groups, recognize a problem related to the given theme, develop a solution, and pitch their idea to the rest of the groups. This exercise helps to illustrate to students how to think with an entrepreneurial, creative problem-solving mindset.<br/>
Incubator Challenge
*The incubator challenge is a two week long problem-solving competition hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton. It gives you a chance to approach a real-world challenge in a collaborative environment - leveraging technology and a diverse skill set to create and present an innovative solution to representatives from Booz Allen.
Hacking for Defense
*This course brings an [http://www.h4di.org/ innovative problem-solving model ]developed at Stanford University to complex problems faced by the departments of Defense and State. The course is sponsored by [http://4-va.org/ 4-VA] and takes place in JMU’s [http://jmuxlabs.org/ X-Labs].
FBLA
*The FBLA National Awards Program, also known as competitive events, recognizes and rewards excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. FBLA competitive events also prepare students for successful careers in business by providing opportunities to apply classroom concepts in a workforce-simulated competitive environment.
Undergraduate Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship
*SOCI 385 (Madness and Soceity Environments, Technologies and Innovation)
*ENGR 221 (Managment of Technology I: Product Development and Entrepreneurial Engineering)
Entrepreneurship Minor
Students are required to submit an application to be considered for enrollment in the minor. More information on the entrepreneurship minor can be found [http://www.jmu.edu/cob/undergraduate/entrepreneurship-minor.shtml here].
== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==