Global Innovation Tournament is an official event of Global Entrepreneurship Week!
What is Global Entrepreneurship Week?
Co-founded in 2008 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in the United States and Make Your Mark, a business-led government-backed campaign in the United Kingdom, Global Entrepreneurship Week will connect young people through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and others will participate in a host of activities that include virtual and face-to-face events, large-scale competitions and intimate networking gatherings.
Global Innovation Tournament History
In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Stanford University's Technology Ventures Program (STVP) hosts a Global Innovation Tournament each November where students compete in a fast-paced competition that encourages students to work in teams, challenge assumptions, seize opportunities and be creative. While Stanford hosts the main event, students across the globe participate in this competition at local host institutions. The challenge for student teams is to take an object of very little value and create as much value as possible from it in the 3 day span of the event. Students define value as they wish, as monetary or social, and are evaluated based on implementing their plan, gaining results, creativity and problem solving. Each team creates a video advertising or describing a product; the videos are submitted to Stanford and posted on You Tube. A panel of judges selects winners in a variety of different categories such as Impact, Humor and Creativity as well as Overall Best. Institutions also compete at the local level, judging the entries from their own event alone.
Want to see video samples? To view the winning entries for the 2008 National Global Innovation Tournament, click here.
What Happens at Global Innovation Tournament?
All events will take place at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI
Global Innovation Tournament Kickoff
Friday, November 6, 2009 5:00 p.m.
This event will kick off the tournament and get teams motivated to innovate. We will gather to meet the teams and learn what the task will be for this year's GIT. Don't forget to bring your team banner for the role call!
Innovate!
Between events, student teams will work together to finish the GIT challenge, to take an object of very little value and create as much value possible and then make a 3-minute video advertising or describing their products.
Global Innovation Tournament Video Showcase and Awards
Sunday, November 8th 2:00 p.m.
This event will conclude the tournament with a miniature film festival to view all of the 3-minute videos the students have made to feature their products. Judges will be present at this event and awards will be given to the teams who win each category.
Tournament Rules
1. Students may assemble teams with as many people as they wish
2. Teams will take an object of very little value and create as much value as possible in the 4 day span of the tournament. The object will be unveiled at the Kickoff event
3. It is up to the teams to define value in their own terms (social, artistic, financial, etc)
4. You can use as many units of the chosen object as you like
5. Teams will produce a video advertising or describing the product that must be 3 minutes or less in length
6. Teams must have access to a device capable of shooting a 3-minute video. Participants will not be judged on video quality.
Prizes
Teams will be judged at our local Michigan Event before being submitted for judging at the national level through Stanford University's tournament. We will award the following prizes at the Lawrence Tech event:
1st Place Team: $500
2nd Place Team: $300
3rd Place Team: $200
Participate in the Tournament
The deadline to sign up is October 29th. There is no cost for Global Innovation Tournament! To sign your team up today, click here
Contact
Katie Hayes
klewis@ltu.edu
248-204-2415