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<span id="docs-internal-guid-9c351884-3085-0b19-9712-ca32dd929d38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The annual UVU Social Innovation Challenge starts each September, provides workshops monthly during fall, and concludes with pitches from our finalists at an exciting awards competition in December. Participating in the UVU Social Innovation Challenge offers you hands-on experience working to identify and research a social problem and gaps in the solutions market. This is a great place to start if you want to save the world.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c351884-3085-0b19-9712-ca32dd929d38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://www.uvu.edu/entrepreneurship/events/uvu-innovation-challenge.html https://www.uvu.edu/entrepreneurship/events/uvu-innovation-challenge.html]</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c351884-3085-0b19-9712-ca32dd929d38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunity Quest</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-9c351884-3085-0b19-9712-ca32dd929d38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunity Quest is an executive summary business plan competition open to all students within Utah Valley University. Individuals or teams can submit entries, but each submission must include at least one current Utah Valley University student in a prominent leadership role. The competition fosters and promotes business growth at the college and university level by giving students a chance to organize, direct, and present a business idea to a panel of judges. Opportunity Quest provides teams with an educational forum to prepare them for the competition and aid them in the creation and implementation of their business plan. A cash prize of $4,000 is awarded to the team judged to have presented the most plausible and promising business executive summary. The first-place team is also automatically entered as a finalist in the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-9c351884-3085-0b19-9712-ca32dd929d38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://www.uvu.edu/entrepreneurship/events/oq/ https://www.uvu.edu/entrepreneurship/events/oq/]</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-9c351884-3085-0b19-9712-ca32dd929d38">&nbsp;</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-9c351884-3085-0b19-9712-ca32dd929d38"><span style="fontbackground-sizecolor: 12pt; font-family: Calibritransparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weightfamily: 700Calibri; font-variant-numericsize: normal12pt; font-variant-east-asianweight: normal; vertical-align: baseline700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Global Student Entrepreneur Awards</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-9c351884-3085-0b19-9712-ca32dd929d38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students compete against their peers in a local GSEA Finals competition in the hopes of winning and going on to compete first nationally and then globally (in Toronto this . Founded in 1998 by Saint Louis University, GSEA is now an Entrepreneurs’ Organization program. EO uses GSEA as a vessel to give student entrepreneurs the opportunity to accelerate their success, challenge the status quo, connect to an instrumental peer group and make the greatest impact possible in their community.</span></span>
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