Graduate Innovation Competition Climax
6 July 2015
From 3.00–5.00pm on Thursday (9 July) the finalists in the inaugural Hertford Graduate Initiative Fund (HGIF) Competition will pitch their entrepreneurial ideas to a panel of Hertford Fellows. (HGIF is part of the Hertford Graduate School Initiative.)
The finalists were selected from among the many members of the Hertford postgraduate community who submitted brief proposals for businesses or initiatives of any size or scale during Trinity Term. Following the pitches and a Q & A, the panel will award prizes of £2,500, £1,500 & £1,000 to the three finalists whose projects they consider most deserving of support.
The finalists and the titles of their pitches are as follows:
Online-based Multimedia Educational Materials Market Place – Kaitlyn Lloyd
An Amazon for Reagents – Bas Baavelar
Solivagants Stationery – Caitlin Cook
The Commitment Consultancy – Rong Hao
UPROSA Scientific Style E-Commerce – Dominique Piche
Café Géographique in the UK – Rory Hill
An Interactive Puzzle-based App for Smoking Cessation – Sara Martin
Bioreign: A Biotechnology Company of ‘reverse’ resourcing – Mustak Ibn Ayub