Startup Challenge
Sponsored by Kummer Student Programs and Career Opportunities and Employer Relations
Thank you to all the students and volunteers who participated in the 2024 Startup Challenge.
Check back fall 2025 for the next competition dates.
About the Challenge
This is a great opportunity for students to learn more about what it takes to create a business model and perfect it into a compelling five-minute pitch. Teams that complete the learning modules will be eligible to advance to the finals where they will pitch their business model concept to a panel of judges for scholarship prize money.
Curriculum
The learning modules teams will complete are based on the 9 blocks business model and the curriculum was developed by Dr. Fang at Missouri S&T.
The business model is the entrepreneur’s or manager’s logic of how a venture creates, delivers, and captures values. A business model must be simple, relevant, and intuitively understandable, and isn’t bounded by details and numbers. Different from a business plan which is a detail-based description and number-driven forecast based on the operation and activities of a business.
Scholarship Prize Money
- $5,000 scholarship split among team members that win first place
- $3,000 scholarship split among team members that win second place
- $1,000 scholarship split among team members that win third place
Past Challenges
2022 Challenge
Winning teams of the 2022 Startup Challenge won a free one-year membership for each team member to TREX Downtown in addition to their scholarships.
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