100K Student Technology Venture Competition
Focusing on student entrepreneurial activities, CITE hosts a biannual 100K Student Technology Venture Competition to give students hands-on experience as early stage entrepreneurs. Teams of senior business and engineering students work throughout the semester to develop a technology demonstrator and business plan to successfully develop a new company. The engineering students create a new technology product, and the business students create the business plan for commercialization of the product. The Harvard Business Club of San Antonio provides a mentor for each of the new venture teams. Click here for a list of mentors and bios.

The competition is the culmination of their undergraduate work and will be judged by a panel of academic, business and entrepreneurial experts. The winning team has access to a prize pool of over $100,000 in funding and services to launch their new company. Some winning teams will execute Microexits © and sell their companies and technologies immediately upon completion of the competition.

The founding sponsor of the competition is the Texas Research Technology Foundation (TRTF). New and continuing sponsors include Cox|Smith, the Harvard Business Club of San Antonio, the San Antonio Technology Center, the UTSA College of Business, the UTSA College of Engineering, and the UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research.

More than 125 students have participated in launching new technology ventures. Click here to see successful projects.

NEXT COMPETITION:  November 19, 2009, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Brass Professional Center, 4400 NW Loop 410. Open to the public.