Pitch your idea for chance to win $10,000!

[Valeri Werpetinski]

[Announcement from Technology Entrepreneur Center]

Got an idea? Explain it using only a white board and a marker, and
you could have the chance to win $10,000!

Idea To Product (I2P) is a unique academic competition looking at
ideas at their earliest stage. I2P is not a business plan
competition. I2P only requires a one-page submission, done according
to a strict format, outlining an idea for a product (or service) and
its market. This approach makes it possible for people across campus
to develop and present ideas, obtain feedback, and start the process
of invention or product development and commercialization.

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The Technology Entrepreneur Center (www.tec.illinois.edu) is hosting
the University of Illinois I2P competition at the Activities and
Recreation Center (ARC) this year. Up to ten student ideas will be
selected for the Illinois campus round of I2P on October 22, 2009.
Online entries for the Illinois campus round of I2P are due by
October 12, 2009.

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Competing students should submit an online entry HERE.
http://younoodle.com/groups/i2p_uillinois

At the campus round, teams or individuals will present to a panel of
judges. Up to five student ideas will be chosen for submission into
the IL-MO regional competition. If your idea is selected for regional
competition, TEC will pay expenses for travel to St. Louis for the
regional event in March. Entries for the IL/MO region are due in
February 2010 (exact date TBD). TEC will submit the Illinois campus
round's winners to the IL/MO regional competition.

The I2P approach provides outstanding feedback to participants, often
including the key guidance needed to take ideas to the next step. I2P
also offers the larger technology and financial communities the
opportunity to get an early view of new ideas, thereby jump starting
the development process.

All proposals are screened by a national panel of experts and receive
feedback. The teams with the best proposals are invited to present to
a blue-ribbon panel, where they receive personal feedback on their
idea, and where the winning ideas are selected. Winning submissions
receive cash prizes, and become eligible for inclusion in the Global
I2P Competition.

I2P is an international competition, with branches in Asia and Europe
as well as several campuses in the United States. The program is based
at the University of Texas at Austin. Its website is
www.ideatoproduct.org.

Saint Louis University has received permission to create an I2P
Regional Competition for the states of Missouri and Illinois, and
will host the competition March 2010 (exact date TBD). The winner of
the regional competition will be eligible for invitation to the
International I2P Competition in 2010.

A University of Illinois student won the International I2P
Competition in 2007, with a $10,000 prize! You could be the next
International Winner!

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT www.tec.illinois.edu or
http://www.slu.edu/x19099.xml

I2P is a registered trademark of the University of Texas at Austin.