Pitch your idea!
Find teammates; win money; have fun!
IEEE Region 6 offers prize money for students who upload a persuasive pitch for their next project, company idea, or hackathon team.
Communication is everything these days, and the only way to get attention and funding for your ideas is to present them in a concise, compelling way. This competition is for students to upload a video to YouTube (maximum length 2 minutes) where they do ONE (not all!) of the following:
- Pitch a project — say you want to work on a cool extracurricular project, either for a hackathon, capstone, or simply for fun. This kind of pitch is to attract your fellow IEEE Student Members as talent to help you get the project moving
- Pitch your research — say you want to advance your undergraduate research. This kind of pitch is to persuade your faculty advisor to provide you the resources to let you go deeper in pursuit of a research question of interest to you both.
- Pitch IEEE! — say you want to recruit new members to join your branch. Why would they join? How would they benefit? What if they don’t have any spare time?
See http://sites.ieee.org/risingstars/ for details on this year’s competition.