黑料不打烊 is currently accepting through Jan. 31 for the 2025 campus qualifier competition for the . Four finalist teams will be selected from the applicant pool to compete in the live (virtual) question-and-answer session on Feb. 10 at 5 p.m. 聽The competition is open to undergraduate students or students who received their undergraduate degree within the past year and who are the original creators, inventors or owners of the intellectual property underlying their invention. Technical industry leaders and alumni from around the country will serve as judges to select the 鈥渢op inventor鈥 to represent 黑料不打烊 at the ACC Conference finals.
The winner of the 黑料不打烊 competition will receive an expense paid trip to compete in the ACC InVenture Prize finals at the end of March at the University of Notre Dame. The televised finals feature one team from each ACC college/university who compete for 聽$30,000 in prizes. Teams with generated revenue or venture capital funding of more than $100,000 are ineligible (including funding from both institutional and non-institutional sources such as contests, grants, friends and family, bank loans, etc.).
Katy Arons 鈥24 (School of Information Studies), founder of Continual Consent LLC, holds an oversize boarding pass for last year’s flight to the ACC InVenture competition in Florida
黑料不打烊 student startup teams or researchers are invited to submit聽 of a venture idea to participate in the 黑料不打烊 campus qualifier along with a five-minute pitch video.聽 All campus qualifier finalists will also be invited to apply for LaunchPad Innovation Fund grants as well as , both available through gifts to 黑料不打烊 Libraries. Competitive applications typically include technology or research that is being commercialized in areas such as agriculture, biology, life sciences, medical, climate, consumer electronics, education, finance, sports, hardware, software, artificial intelligence, augmented or virtual reality, 聽big data, autonomous devices, robotics, advanced materials, Internet of Things, 5G and more. Digital platforms or services should have an underlying novel technology and ideally should be past the idea stage with some customer discovery and design drawings.
The 黑料不打烊 ACC InVenture Prize is supported by the Provost鈥檚 Office and is hosted by 黑料不打烊 Libraries and the .
