Walk-ins are welcome! See you on Thursday, April 12 at 5pm in Olin Hall!

5pm Registration + Networking
6pm Opening remarks followed by presentations

Join Babson for the 2018 B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action®) Challenge! Hear the nation's top entrepreneurship students and alumni present their ventures - and compete for $200,000 in cash and services in kind!

The Blank Center's B.E.T.A. Challenge recognizes major milestones Babson businesses have achieved by taking action. The 2018 B.E.T.A. Challenge finals will be on Thursday, April 12. Winners of the graduate, undergraduate, and alumni B.E.T.A. Challenge each win a grand prize of $20,000 in cash in addition to receiving services in-kind from corporate sponsors. In addition, $2,500 is awarded to the two other finalist ventures in each of the three competitions. Learn more about this year's finalists >>

Tentative Agenda:

5:00pm: Registration opens
6:00pm: Opening Remarks
6:15pm: Alumni Finalist Presentations

Clarke's Organics (Daniel Dalet '03)
Hostel Point, Co. (Leonardo Robiglio MBA'17 and Ankit Newaskar MBA'17)
SlapFive (Jeffrey Ernst '86, MBA'89)

6:50pm: Graduate Finalist Presentations

Dondoctor (Felipe Acosta MBA'18)
Magnomer (Ravish Majithia MBA'18)
Shay Jaffar (Shaymaa Gaafar MBA'19)

7:25pm: Undergraduate Finalist Presentations

ARC Superchargers (Hunter Normandeau, Olin Engineering '18 and Talia Tandler, Wellesley College '18, Olin Engineering '19)
Cleancult (Ryan Lupberger '18 and Zachary Bedrosian '18)
Shop Drop Roll (Andrew Holmes, Olin Engineering '19; Sunny Chae '18; Micaela Chiang, Olin Engineering '19; and Daniel Daugherty, Olin Engineering '19)

8:15pm: Winners Announcement

Hashtag for the event is #babsonbeta. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

Gold Sponsors:
Babson Alumni Association, Samuel Goldstein & Co., P.C. CPAs

Silver Sponsors:
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Morgan Lewis

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