Future Entrepreneurs and Leaders Compete in Elevator Pitch 2018

Champlain College Students Sell Ideas in 90 Seconds or Less

Burlington, VT (03/02/2018) — Champlain College's Build Your Own Business (BYOBiz) Program, Career Collaborative, and Office of Institutional Advancement present the 11th annual Elevator Pitch Competition on Tuesday, March 6 at 8 p.m. in Champlain College's Alumni Auditorium, 375 Maple St. It is sponsored by Heritage Automotive Group. It free and open to the public to attend.

The 2018 Elevator Pitch is a competition in which aspiring young job seekers, social activists, and entrepreneurs have 90 seconds to impress a "suit," a person playing the role of a valuable contact for the competitor. What's the incentive? First prize is $500, second prize, $300, and third prize, $100.

A total of 50-80 students, across all majors and grade levels (including graduate students), compete in the preliminary round. This is ultimately narrowed down to 18 finalists, who compete in front of a judges panel of local business leaders for first, second, and third place, as well as for crowd favorite, voted on by the audience.

This year's finalists are:

Social Advocate/ Non-Profit Category

Abigail Barr, Computer Forensics ('19)
Quinn Boyd, Accounting ('18)
Nancy Champagne, Digital Forensics ('19)
Kohle Feeley, Management & Innovation ('21)
Stephanie Felix, Business Management ('19)
Keman Huang, Accounting ('18)
Absa Samba, Social Work ('20)

Job/Internship Seeker

Don Atherton, Game Production Management ('21)
Meghan Donovan, Computer Information technology ('20)
Aaron Millet, Game Programming ('18)
Jessica Priesing, Accounting ('18)
Colton Orr, Game Art & Animation ('18)
Caryssa Yates, Accounting ('18)

Entrepreneurs

Mia Andreozzi, Accounting ('21)
Lucas DeLima, Game Production Management ('21)
Lisa Lord, Communication ('21)
Thomas Payne, Business Administration ('19)
Andersen Pinckney, Game Design ('20)
August Stevens, Finance ('18)

For further information about the Champlain College Elevator Pitch Competition, go to https://www.champlain.edu/centers-of-excellence/build-your-own-business/elevator-pitch-competition or contact Bob Bloch, BYOBiz Program, rbloch@champlain.edu, 802-865-6490 or Pat Boera, Career Collaborative, boerap@champlain.edu, 802-651-5991.

About Champlain College

Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and over 90 residential undergraduate and online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 382 Colleges: 2018 Edition. For the third year in a row, Champlain was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's 2018 "America's Best Colleges," and an "A+ School for B Students" and is ranked in the top 100 Regional Universities of the North. Champlain is also featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges for 2018 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain and is a 2018 College of Distinction. For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.

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Participants in the 2017 Champlain College Elevator Pitch Competition. This year's event is Tuesday, March 6 at Alumni Auditorium at Champlain College.

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Millet