{"id":11987,"date":"2022-10-19T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=11987"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:58:52","slug":"business-student-pitch-competition-with-cash-stipends-and-scholarship-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2022\/10\/19\/business-student-pitch-competition-with-cash-stipends-and-scholarship-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Business student pitch competition with cash stipends and scholarship awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/michigancolleges.org\/\">Michigan Colleges Alliance (MCA)<\/a> is once again hosting the Campus Community Challenge. This challenge pairs student teams with community non-profit organizations to solve community challenges in innovative ways.<\/p>\n<p>Teams of up to four students (recommended), led by a faculty adviser, will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete seven design thinking sprints facilitated by the Henry Ford Learning Institute.<\/li>\n<li>Will be paired with a community partner.<\/li>\n<li>Pitch their idea to a panel of judges.<\/li>\n<li>Be eligible to earn up to $10,000 in scholarships per team.<\/li>\n<li>Earn stipends for successful completion of the program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This opportunity is open to all Detroit Mercy students. Last year, two Detroit Mercy teams earned a combined total of $12,000 through the competition and are continuing on to the Ford Motor Company Fund national competition.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline is <strong>Friday, Oct. 21<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or with interest, please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/cba\/staff\/derrin-leppek\">Derrin Leppek<\/a> at <a href=\"mailto:leppekdj@udmercy.edu\">leppekdj@udmercy.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan Colleges Alliance (MCA) is once again hosting the Campus Community Challenge. This challenge pairs student teams with community non-profit organizations to solve community challenges in innovative ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[5710,130,2195,5017,1363,5089],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-37l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11988,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987\/revisions\/11988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}