<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Michigan Tech offers students a growing variety of resources to student entrepreneurs. These opportunities, while many are the same as past years, are being reorganized and streamlined under the Husky Innovate innitiative, to give a linear path of moving a new idea into a real startup. While some of them are easy to come by, others are more challenging for students to find. A few of the top resources are listed below: </span></span></span>
*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Idea Pitch Competition: '''The competitionis competition is designed to encourage student entrepreneurship at Michigan Tech. The competition brings in over 30 aspiring innovative ideas together to present in two minutes to over 150 audience members. </span></span></span>
*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''New Venture Competition:''' The New Venture Competition is a joint partnership between Michigan Tech and Central Michigan University where startups get business plan feedback, mentorship, and an opportunity to win over $30,000 for their new idea. </span></span></span>
*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">'''Accelerate Michigan: '''Accelerate Michigan is a pitch competition held annually in the fall. </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">It has a branch for students where 27 teams are selected as semi-finalists to compete at the Cobo Center in Detroit for a chance at $20,000.</span></span></span>