The GVSU 5x5 Competition will feature five groups vying for a $5,000 prize.
Entry for the competition was open to students, faculty and staff members to submit an idea, research project or initiative. The top five, from a public vote, will have five minutes and five presentation slides to pitch their ideas to five judges.
The event will take place Wednesday, March 23, from 5-7 p.m., in the Eberhard Center, room 201. The names of the five teams presenting are Solar Energy Saving Lives, Good Food-Cultivating Community, Taste of the Westside, Your Story, and Fire and Ice.
The five judges are Jeff Shade from Ernst & Young, LLP; Erik Daly from Barnes & Thornburg LLP; Peter Rahrig from Lake Michigan Credit Union; Maddie Cleghorn, president of Student Senate at GVSU; and Mike Czechowskyj from Spectrum Health Innovations.
The 5x5 competition is sponsored by Grand Valley's Richard M. and Helen DeVos Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Seidman College of Business. For more information, visit www.5x5night.com or www.gvsu.edu/cei.
