{"id":6808,"date":"2017-12-12T11:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:10:58","slug":"elevator-pitch-event-to-enrich-student-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/12\/12\/elevator-pitch-event-to-enrich-student-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Elevator pitch&#8217; event to enrich student experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasiru Taura and Thanh Huynh recently organised a successful &#8216;elevator pitch&#8217; event to enrich student experiences at BU, by enabling them to showcase their start-up projects as\u00a0part\u00a0of their Entrepreneurship and Business Ventures (EBV).<\/p>\n<p>The event featured four\u00a0industry\u00a0experts\u00a0(including\u00a0entrepreneurs, investors, and practitioners) as panelists. More than 70 people attended and participated in the event. Groups of students delivered industry standard elevator pitches and received feedback\u00a0from\u00a0industry\u00a0experts and entrepreneurs.\u00a0\u00a0The students\u00a0also\u00a0displayed\u00a0posters during the networking and coffee break.\u00a0Awards were awarded\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0students\u00a0for<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Best\u00a0poster and<\/li>\n<li>Best\u00a0elevator\u00a0pitch.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The event\u00a0was held\u00a0at FUSION\u00a0building\u00a0Inspire\u00a0LT between\u00a011:00-14:00.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/Thanh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6809\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/Thanh-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/Thanh-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/Thanh-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/Thanh-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/Thanh.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/thanh2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6810\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/thanh2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/thanh2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/thanh2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/thanh2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/12\/thanh2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>If you wish to read more about this event, please contact <a href=\"mailto:ntaura@bournemouth.ac.uk\">Nasiru <\/a>and <a href=\"mailto:cthuynh@bournemouth.ac.uk\">Thanh<\/a>. The organizers also thank Mark Painter, Jackie Timms, Mark Ridolfo, and David Jones for supporting and making the event possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasiru Taura and Thanh Huynh recently organised a successful &#8216;elevator pitch&#8217; event to enrich student experiences at BU, by enabling them to showcase their start-up projects as\u00a0part\u00a0of their Entrepreneurship and Business Ventures (EBV). The event featured four\u00a0industry\u00a0experts\u00a0(including\u00a0entrepreneurs, investors, and practitioners) as panelists. More than 70 people attended and participated in the event. Groups of students&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/12\/12\/elevator-pitch-event-to-enrich-student-experiences\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about &#8216;Elevator pitch&#8217; event to enrich student experiences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}