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Shark Tank-like Entrepreneurs’ Pitch Fest set to dazzle this Friday at Southeast Campus

Story by Chabre Vickers

The ¶¶Òõ¸£Àûµ¼º½ Management and Supervisory Development Program has announced the very first at the Southeast Campus Community Hall from 12:30-3:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 8.

Nine ¶¶Òõ¸£Àûµ¼º½ Student teams will pitch their new product, business concept or invention idea to compete for cash, mentoring, and the opportunity to represent ¶¶Òõ¸£Àûµ¼º½ in the 2018 InventOR competition. Students will have five minutes to present their idea, and a panel of judges from the local entrepreneur community will choose two winning teams. Each team will be awarded a $2,500 development grant to build a prototype, as well as mentoring from Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, and the opportunity to compete for up to $10,000 in funding from .

While space is limited, the community is invited to register for a free ticket and parking pass to attend.  Anyone interested in learning more can email faculty Carolina Selva, at carolina.selva@pcc.edu.

Anyone interested in attending can register here:

The recently launched Entrepreneurship concentration at Southeast Campus under the Management and Supervisory Development Program is already seeing a robust engagement across the college. The new ¶¶Òõ¸£Àûµ¼º½ course titled “Introduction to Entrepreneurship” (BA 150) was offered for the first time in 2016 at Southeast.  In this class, students explore what’s needed to take an idea to a finished product or startup business, including what it takes to be an entrepreneur and how to create a business concept and business model canvas. During the 2018 winter term, the course will be offered online and in-person at Southeast, Cascade and Sylvania campuses, and at the Rock Creek Campus this spring.