Pop-Up Pitch Competitions

Do you have an idea? Pitch it in 30 seconds!

Is there a problem you want to solve? Do you see the potential for a business that should be started? Join us during the fall semester at a pop-up pitch event in your college or stop by the Baker Pattillo Student Center Spirit Lounge on an open-pitch day. 

The top idea from each college will receive $1,000 in scholarship funds. Recorded pitches of these ideas will be shown to attendees of an SFA basketball game in February, where an audience applause-o-meter will determine first-, second- and third-place overall winners.

• First place overall: $2,000 in additional scholarships and advances to the annual Lumberjack Entrepreneurship Competition in April
• Second place overall: $1,000 in additional scholarships
• Third place overall: $500 in additional scholarships

Note: Students may participate as an individual or a team. Scholarship funds are split among the members of a winning team.

Fall 2023 top ideas announced

• Quercus Cookies
  • pitched by Brooks Bays and Wallace Daily
  • representing the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
• Micro-satellite company
  • pitched by Duston Judson
  • representing the College of Sciences and Mathematics
• Time Management Consultants
  • pitched by Makahla Bolin-Davis, Claire Boyd, Kylee Hillman and Daxton Owen
  • representing the College of Liberal and Applied Arts
• JanJan's Homemade Creations
  • pitched by Ayanna Monderoy
  • representing the James I. Perkins College of Education
• QuickTix
  • pitched by Carson Roling and Zach Stephen
  • representing the Nelson Rusche College of Business