Entreprenuership Team Challenge

What happens when the classroom meets the kitchen? On Sunday, January 11, the San Antonio community is invited to witness a high-stakes collision of business strategy and culinary artistry.

For one week, thirty students from Trinity University and The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) have been locked in an intensive entrepreneurial bootcamp. Their mission: take a top-secret concept—the humble grilled cheese—and transform it into a market-ready reality in just seven days.

The Grand Finale: The journey culminates at Pearl's Sunday Makers Market. We've moved the presentations out of the classroom for an open-air product launch. This isn't just a pitch—it's a real-world test of creativity and grit.

Your Role: We invite you to experience the results of this collaboration firsthand. Meet the teams, hear their stories, and sample their unique grilled cheese creations. The public will have a front-row seat to the competition as we determine which team has crafted the winning sandwich.

The challenge was simple: reinvent the grilled cheese. The results? Anything but ordinary.

EVENT & TICKET DETAILS

• Secret Product Samples: Redeem your ticket to sample (3) unique team creations with included sides (Secret product to be revealed January 5)
• Voting: (3) Voting tickets to help crown the Entrepreneurship Team Challenge winner
• Children 2 and under are free.

PARKING INFO

• Visit the Parking at Pearl website for all parking options available at Pearl.
• Additional parking is available in the Oxbow Garage.
• Valet parking is available to the public at Hotel Emma.
• Guests are also encouraged to use ride share.
  

MEET YOUR HOST

Pearl is a dynamic neighborhood built around the historic Pearl Brewery (1883–1999). Today, it is home to dozens of unique culinary concepts, one-of-a-kind retail, weekend markets, residential communities, the San Antonio campus of the Culinary Institute of America, and the award-winning Hotel Emma. Learn more: atpearl.com.

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