Watch, Learn and Play: Pitch Competition, Guest Speaker and Design Challenge

About This Event

Join us from 6 – 8 p.m. at the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub during Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Penn State for a celebration of entrepreneurship with a Pitch competition, inspiring guest speaker, and design thinking challenge. This event is open to the public, appetizers and dinner will be provided, and those interested in attending can register at no cost.
WATCH: Watch as startups participating in Happy Valley Lunchbox powered by PNC Bank’s FastTrack Accelerator first ever pitch competition compete to win up to $5000 for their startup.
LEARN: While judges deliberate to determine the competition winners, learn how Darrell Alston, CEO of Bungee Oblečení, luxury sneaker and apparel company, overcame past struggles and challenges to find success in his entrepreneurial journey with celebrities such as Nick Cannon and Kenan Thompson rocking his sneakers.
STAY AND PLAY! (8 – 9PM)
Stick around after the event for a special design thinking challenge lead by Darrell Alston. Join us while we use creative concepts and innovative materials to reinvent classic shoe design.


About FastTrack Accelerator
The FastTrack Accelerator is a 10-week FastTrack program that helps startups avoid common startup mistakes, build an actionable plan to launch a business, test the market quickly with “smokescreens,” and build a solution based on real customer feedback. The final pitch contest is an opportunity for the teams to showcase what they have accomplished in the program and compete to win up to $5,000.

About Happy Valley LaunchBox
Our mission is to connect local entrepreneurs to the support, resources, and facilities they need to de-risk and accelerate their ventures. It's good for them, and it's good for our economy.

About Darrell Alston

Darrell Alston, CEO of Bungee Oblečení, the Philadelphia-based luxury sneaker and apparel company, heads to Happy Valley to be the Bishoff Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the College of Engineering’s Engineering Entrepreneurship Program. His visit occurs during the university’s Annual Global Entrepreneur Week.
Join us to learn about what start-up teams in Happy Valley are working on and what the startup scene looks like at the Happy Valley LaunchBox. Each FastTrack team will give a 3-minute pitch on their business to a panel of judges. While the judges deliberate, we will have light appetizers and open networking time as an opportunity to learn about the work and entrepreneurial support of the Happy Valley LaunchBox.

Registration is required for this event. You can register HERE.

This event is presented by the Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank, SEDTAPP Engineering Entrepreneurship and in partnership with Innoblue Entrepreneurship Club. It is open to all students and community members!