Students to compete for chance at $1 million

Grand Valley students will compete for a chance to win $1 million during the 7th annual Hult Prize Challenge.

The competition will take place December 10, from 5-9 p.m. in the Kirkhof Center, room 2215/16, on the Allendale Campus.

The Hult Prize Challenge is the largest international social innovation competition in the world for young entrepreneurs. Participants form small start-up companies to compete for $1 million in funding while working to solve the planet’s toughest challenges. This year’s competition theme is “crowded urban spaces.” Ten teams of Grand Valley students will compete in teams of three-to-five people.

“This opportunity for Grand Valley students to participate in an international design-thinking based competition is too good to pass up, especially for a chance at $1 million and the opportunity to potentially make an impact on a global scale,” said John Berry, Design Thinking Initiative director.

The winners of the Hult Prize Challenge at Grand Valley will advance to the regional finals, which will take place during individual competitions around the world in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai, March 11-12.

In 2014, more than 20,000 university students worldwide participated in the annual competition, which aimed to solve issues revolving around early childhood development and education.

For more information, visit Richard M. and Helen DeVos Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation website or contact Michael Kurley at [email protected].