A Ball State University student won a $500 gold coin for his part in the 2009 I-69 Collegiate Innovation Challenge on Friday and Saturday in Plymouth.
According to a press release junior Zachary Alexander was on the winning team. Its proposal to a panel of judges from various Indiana businesses was chosen as the best based on innovation, profitability and market potential.
Alexander, along with Ball State seniors Ashley Wiswell, Kamille Jones and Mike Beer and sophomore Kaitlyn Caraway, all entrepreneurship majors, teamed with students from five colleges and universities on the Interstate-69 corridor to develop a hypothetical, innovative business idea. Each team had a student from each school.
The business proposal was based on creating a for-profit business solution that results in a healthy and sustainable lifestyle within Indiana.
Wiswell said she had an "amazing" weekend at the competition. Meeting and working with people from different schools was good experience, she said. Ball State was the largest and only non-Christian school at the challenge, she said.
Presenting gave her a "little rush" she said, and her team was the first to present. She said presenting a business proposal was good practice for the upcoming semester because she has to do presentations before May commencement.
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