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Got any ridiculous(ly brilliant) and innovative entrepreneurial proposals but lack the cash to bring them to fruition in an unsympathetic economic climate and world that’s just not ready for your brilliance, anyhow? Well, don’t get ahead of yourself with the preemptive rejection consolations, the Bears Breaking Boundaries Unforgiven dvd competition has already passed. You can check out the winners though, if the desire to belittle some pretty interesting proposals with bitter mutterances like “psh, like that’ll ever work” should strike.
The fourth annual competition awarded $85,000 to 33 proposals, with first place prizes in a variety of categories ranging from $1,500 to $13,000. Some big winners include plans for a student food cooperative in Lower Sproul Plaza and a business that grows mushrooms out of discarded coffee grounds. The rest, though less unbelievably stereotypical of Berkeley, are just as worthy.
It was sponsored by Big Ideas at Berkeley, ASUC, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center and the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases. The award budget was down from $185,000 last year, but organizers say the point of the awards is to help these projects get off the ground, at which point they will hopefully acquire further sponsorship. The Clog sends its wide-eyed congratulations to the winners.
Image Source: zetson under Creative Commons.
Student Proposals Win Bears Breaking Boundaries Competition [Daily Californian
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Earlier: Here’s a Concept That Works: $10,000 in Prize Money
Tags:Bears Breaking Boundaries, berkeley stereotypes, food cooperative, mushrooms
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