TROY, MI, March 25, 2013 – The Walsh College Blackstone LaunchPad is pleased to announce the “Make It Better” business competition designed to encourage out-of-the-box thinking among local students. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize, with other cash prizes being rewarded.
Participants are required to submit an essay totaling 1,000 words or less. Students are asked to describe how they will redesign an existing product or service, or develop a new one, to help improve the quality of people’s lives or to Michigan or their community a better place to live.
The competition is open to high school and community college students who reside in Michigan, and Walsh College students and alumni.
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There is also an optional marketing exercise for participants to create a one-page flyer to promote their product or service in a creative manner and have a chance at winning a $100 Apple gift card.
“Not only will this competition stimulate innovative thinking in young adults, it will expose students to the entrepreneurial community and the types of resources that the LaunchPad here at Walsh has to offer,” said Carol Glynn, director of the Blackstone LaunchPad at Walsh College.
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This competition is funded by a grant from the Charles M. Bauervic Foundation.
Competition details available at: www.walshcollege.edu/blackstonelaunchpad. Entries must be submitted electronically or by mail by 5p.m. on Friday, March 29, and the winners will be announced in late April. For questions, e-mail launchpad@walshcollege.edu, or call (248) 823-1670.
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WALSH COLLEGE
Southeast Michigan’s Walsh College (www.walshcollege.edu), a private, non-profit all-business college that is one of Michigan’s largest graduate schools of business, integrates application and theory to prepare graduates for successful careers. The College offers degrees at the bachelor, master, and doctoral levels in the classroom and online. Fields of study range from accounting and business administration to information assurance and taxation. Professional certificate programs are also offered. Walsh College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (www.ncahlc.org; phone: 312-263-0456) and the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE, www.iacbe.org). The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP, www.acbsp.org) accredits specific degree programs.
About Walsh College and Wayne State University Blackstone LaunchPad
Funded by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, and in partnership with New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan, Automation Alley, University of Miami, Walsh College and Wayne State University - this program helps aspiring entrepreneurs develop and launch their businesses. As the first of its kind in Michigan, it offers fully enrolled Walsh students and degreed Walsh alumni; and Wayne State University students - the opportunity to assess the feasibility of their ideas for starting and growing for-profit and non-profit ventures.
CONTACTS
Carol Glynn / Director of Walsh College Blackstone LaunchPad / cglynn@walshcollege.edu / 248.823.1262
