Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Champlain College

06/17/2022

Check out CIE Director Kylie King's podcast in collaboration with the Center for Community and Social Justice and Emergent Media Center!

Listen to Diversifying Diversity on Spotify. What is diversity, and what does it mean to different people? These are the questions that guide our new podcast Diversifying Diversity. In the first season, we talk to different Champlain College faculty members and dive into how their backgrounds and th...

04/20/2022

https://coachcarterconsulting.substack.com/p/-funding-alert-deadline-for-edas?r=1ysdr&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

The Economic Development Administration is giving away millions to university entrepreneurship centers around the country to support their programming. Are you eligible to get a slice?

03/22/2022

Such a great resource! Contact Sarah Kearns at https://www.vtsbdc.org/, (802) 771-5820, or [email protected]!

03/01/2022

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peak-pitch-vermont-2022-sugarbush-tickets-271109946147

Champlain College is a sponsor for the upcoming Peak Pitch event. At this fun and friendly annual event, entrepreneurs are paired with investors or advisors for rides up the lift at Sugarbush. Free lift tickets for all and a great opportunity to get your idea out there and build some connections. The CIE will be there - we hope to see ya!

Hosted by FreshTracks Capital, Peak Pitch VT, now in its 16th year, is a skiing, networking and fundraising event held at Sugarbush Resort

03/01/2022

03/01/2022

Funding Opportunities

Your "Final Four" student funding opportunities with over $1 million in total prizes! Plus an opportunity to find your AR/VR dream job out of college.

02/16/2022

https://www.wbenc.org/programs/collegiate-accelerator/

The WBENC Collegiate Accelerator, previously the WBENC Student Entrepreneur Program, is a premier startup program that fosters growth for the next generation of female founders and women-owned businesses.

01/26/2022

A new matchmaking tool to help student entrepreneurs meet other student entrepreneurs and mentors that can help them along the way from across the US. It's a completely free resource.

Meet other entrepreneurs at your stage and mentors to help you build your business

12/06/2021

Funding opportunities

https://airtable.com/shrEvxSW4AnoYsBvd/tblMpACBJ1drq5P44

Despite all of the wintery distractions, some of the biggest and best opportunities in the world of university entrepreneurship are open right now.

Rice’s BPC

Tulane’s BMC

MIT Water Innovation Prize

TCU’s Value and Ventures

Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs

We’ve got some heavy hitters in that group.

While you have a little bit of a buffer before the next deadline (January 15th), it’s better to get your plan of attack ready now. There’s hundreds of thousands of dollars of non-dilutive grant funding up for grabs after all.

12/06/2021

https://ic.vtsbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=410028

11/02/2021

📋 Coach's Corner: November 2021
There are plenty of funding opportunities to be thankful for

Kevin Carter
Nov 1

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It’s somehow November 1st, meaning we’re entering the home stretch of the calendar year.
Yes, believe it or not, there are just 2 months left in 2021. That’s scarier than Halloween to me.

So what’s on the horizon for the rest of the year?

There are a couple of BIG DEADLINES tonight (Baylor New Venture Competition & Amazon US University Startup Competition) so be sure you get those in ASAP if you were thinking about applying.

A BIG ask from me to all my University E-Ship staff folks: please spread the good word and forward these opportunities to your students. As the school year goes on, I will be sharing millions of dollars of grant funding available to student entrepreneurs, in addition to other accelerator programs, jobs/internship opportunities, and my own student startup spotlights. These are the types of resources that can set student entrepreneurs on the trajectory to become full-time founders. For that reason, I just want to make sure as many student entrepreneurs as possible are aware of these opportunities.

There are plenty of funding opportunities to be thankful for

09/15/2021

The CIE is hosting an Innovation Fair on Saturday, October 16th from 4:00-6:00pm at the fabulous new Hula (https://www.hulalakeside.com/) campus (50 Lakeside Ave Burlington). This event is open to the Champlain community and the general public. The Sarah Ramsey Strong 5K race (https://sarahramseystrong.com/) and afterparty will also be held at Hula that day.

Innovation Fair
Use this form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScP9-pOmWzpj_FI-oTQ7Apx_gd1LpJS0ox8rosAcm402V6rrg/viewform) to register to check out student creations, products, ideas and have the opportunity to purchase unique merchandise. Students and recent alumni can also use the form to sign up to showcase business ideas and sell products/services at the event! The deadline to apply as a seller or presenter is 5pm on September 17th. We will provide information to presenters and attendees prior to the event.

5K
If you are interested in running in the race and supporting a great cause, use this link (https://sarahramseystrong.com/) to register or learn more about the event and Sarah Ramsey Strong Foundation. If you need help covering the registration fee ($15) please contact us at [email protected]

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