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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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I2SERVE, the social entrepeneruship competition sponsored by the College of Management and Lambda Sigma Honor Society, welcomes Robin Ferst, founder and president of the Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy, as keynote speaker for the competition's kickoff event.
The I2S is one of three competitions at Georgia Tech that are intended to specifically encourage creativity in product design, the application of technology for new products and services, and technology entrepreneurship. The InVenture Prize is an innovation competition for undergraduate students at Georgia Tech. Students who participate in the Inventure Competition are encouraged to enter the I2S if their product/service concept meets the I2S eligibility criteria. Also graduate students and certain alumni not eligible for InVenture are welcome to participate the I2S. The Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition is intended for ideas that have advanced beyond the I2S/InVenture stage -- ideas that are business concepts that have developed to the point that full business plans can be prepared. Generally participants in the BPC have fully developed product concepts, market, operational, and financial strategies. Participants in InVenture or the I2S would be expected to "graduate up" to the BPC a year after competing in the InVenture/I2S competitions. The BPC is for technology ventures and unlike the I2S is not solely focused on social or environmental applications.
