About the Pitch Competition
The competition challenges engineering students to showcase their innovative technology-based businesses, both at the idea and concept stages.
This event offers:
- Cash prizes and in-kind support
- Expert feedback from industry judges
- Networking with potential investors
- Real-world entrepreneurial experience
Open to all engineering students, this competition provides a platform to turn cutting-edge concepts into viable business ventures, fostering the next generation of tech entrepreneurs at uOttawa. The Pitch Competition is part of Design Day at the Faculty of Engineering.
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Categories and prizes
For early-stage concepts, encouraging you to present innovative solutions to real-world problems, even if they’re not yet fully developed. Entries in this category don’t have any major development (sales, alpha/beta hardware or software, funding or traction), as determined by the facilitators.
The first prize in this category is $1,000.
For more advanced projects, where participants have already validated their ideas and have initial prototypes and/or validated business models.
Submissions should be beyond the initial idea stage but not have gained significant traction (such as funding, sales or support from other accelerators, as determined by the facilitators) before submission.
The first prize in this category is $2,500.
Enter the competition
This competition is open to undergraduate and graduate engineering and computer science students interested in entrepreneurship. Applications include both written and video components.
Registration for the Winter edition of the competition will open soon.
Competition eligibility and rules
- Individual entries: Participants must be enrolled in a Faculty of Engineering undergraduate or graduate program during the Fall or Winter term.
- Team entries: The majority of the participants must be enrolled in a Faculty of Engineering undergraduate or graduate program during the Fall or Winter term. For teams of only two individuals, this condition is met if at least one of the two team members meets it.
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Contact
Faculty of Engineering
For more information, please contact:
Lionel Regis
Manager, MakerLaunch Startup Accelerator
lregis@uOttawa.ca