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UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
CMU Hosts First Idea Challenge
Idea innovators across campus and the community
jumped right into the fall semester with CMU's first
idea challenge weekend held August 24 and 25.
Go@CMU was modeled after entrepreneurial start-up
weekends that are held across the country.
Students and community entrepreneurs met for an
intensive two days of idea pitches, work sessions and
workshops. Go@CMU encouraged CMU students
and community members to pitch problems or ideas
in any discipline or for any type of business. Project
leaders then had the chance to build a team of other
students possessing various skill sets to help move the
Bryan Wachs, CEO of internet marketing service MySalesButler, CMU student Ryan Sheehan and Tom Benton,
acting director of The Maverick Innovation Center, were just a few of the Go@CMU organizers that helped make
the inaugural event a success.
project forward throughout the weekend and beyond
— with the end hope of finding a solution that makes
a positive impact on the future of our community and,
potentially, the world.
Event organizers and contributors included Acting
Director of the Maverick Innovation Center Tom
Benton, Professor of Computer Science Warren
MacEvoy, PhD, CMU Coleman Fellows Program
faculty and Bryan Wachs, CEO of internet marketing
service MySalesBulter.com.
Organizers hope to make this an annual event.
