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<li><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''Business Pitch Competition''': </span>Enables young, aspiring entrepreneurs to practice developing, researching, and articulating their ideas in a fast-paced, fun forum. Participants learn how to effectively pitch an idea before judges<span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">,</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">demonstrate why their idea is going to </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">work,</span><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and to do so in a short amount of time.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d">'''<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Scripps Innovation Challenge: </span>'''<span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A university-wide student competition that gives Bobcats the opportunity to create innovative solutions to real-world media and communication problems. The goal of the competition is to harness the creativity of Ohio University students in order to develop new and innovative service, product or process solutions as the basis for a new startup business.</span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Startup Weekend: </span>Anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams form aroundthe<span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the top ideas then have the weekend for business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend ends with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''Student Research & Creative Activity'''</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Expo</span>'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">:</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">800</span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">students from 56 different departments and schools showcase their original research at Ohio University’s biggest-ever Research and Creative Activity Expo with live performances, presentations and interactive demonstrations.</span></span></span></li>
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