The Fermanian School of Business along with PLNU STEM school, College of Natural Health Sciences, and others partnered with Light Innovations, a venture capital company to host a workshop and pitch competition composed of teams of cross-disciplinary students whose innovations focused on life-saving or life-enhancing ideas. The culmination of the workshop where students were coached and mentored by 80 executive judges from a variety of industries was a pitch competition for prize money to help the students launch their innovation.
It was a huge success and something we look forward to doing again in the future!
The winners of the Light Innovation Workshop Pitch Competition were:
1st Place Award $2,500.00 to Mariangela Nava
2nd Place Award $1,500.00 to be split equally amongst Arwen Martin and Emma McHugh
3rd Place Award $1,000.00 to be split equally amongst Parker Hulet & Levi Sheffey
4th Place Award $1,000.00 to be split equally amongst Ciara Compton and Blake Togerson
5th Place Award $1,000.00 to be split equally amongst Evan Knecht, Jacob Novak, and Thaddaeus Sandidge
6th Place Award $600.00 to be split equally amongst Kate Gerspacher and Bella Sarti
7th Place Award $600.00 to be split equally amongst Logan Downing and Noah Kawaguchi
8th Place Award $600.00 to be split equally amongst Kayla Julio, Audrey Vazanna, and Tess Halbert
9th Place Award $600.00 to be split equally amongst Kyler Cooke, Landon Cooke, and Blake Needelman
10th Place Award $600.00 to be split equally amongst Moshu Liao, Brae Sepulveda, and Taj Crellin