{"id":98459,"date":"2024-10-23T18:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=98459"},"modified":"2024-10-25T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:31:18","slug":"deadline-approaching-for-this-years-student-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/deadline-approaching-for-this-years-student-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline approaching for this year\u2019s student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oct. 23, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students are encouraged to apply now for this year\u2019s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge. This year\u2019s challenge has democracy as its theme, inviting students from any major to generate creative ideas addressing social, political, environmental, and economic problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any 911±¬ΑΟ student can join the fall 2024 challenge, designed to complement this fall\u2019s Honors Colloquium, \u201cDemocracy in Peril.<\/a>\u201d The challenge is open to any undergraduate or graduate student, from any program or major, and is sponsored by 911±¬ΑΟ\u2019s RISE-UP (Resilient Innovative Sustainable Economies via University Partnerships) initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To participate in the challenge, students must attend two Honors colloquium during the fall 2024 semester and indicate their interest by completing this form<\/a>. Virtual attendance is allowed. The deadline to apply is Nov. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First-round finalists will be awarded up to $2,000 and be invited to participate in RISE-UP workshops in the spring semester, competing for a grand prize of $5,000 in implementation funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full challenge details can be found here<\/a>. Contact sharday.johnson@uri.edu<\/a> with any questions about the challenge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oct. 23, 2024 Students are encouraged to apply now for this year\u2019s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge. This year\u2019s challenge has democracy as its theme, inviting students from any major to generate creative ideas addressing social, political, environmental, and economic problems. Any 911±¬ΑΟ student can join the fall 2024 challenge, designed to complement this fall\u2019s Honors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-98459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911±¬ΑΟ-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98464,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98459\/revisions\/98464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}