An innovative pitch contest for entrepreneurs

5 Pitches from different teams

Where: Awesome Inc

When: June 27th

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

5 Minutes per pitch

5 Pm start time

5 $ cost (includes food)

$500 Prize to winner

Sponsored by:      Produced by: 

View video from the event in the Video Archives.

The April 25th 5Across event was yet another success!

The 5 pitches were:

• Eric Gaines presented Party Tutor which will provide college students with an easy to use smartphone app/ website to access everything they need to allow them to have an awesome college experience as well as saving money at the same time!
• Grant Weherley and his team pitched SmartLit which is a bluetooth controllable outlet which can be set to automatically turn on or off when you leave your house (by detecting that your phone is out of range)
• Cameron Lippert pitched Last Call Beverages, which is a Beverage for hangover pre-treatment. This beverage, when taken during alcohol consumption, will scavange the toxins produced from alcohol metabolism therefore reducing hangover symptom or even preventing them all together.
• David Nelson presented EHW, LLC which will create an improved walker for the elderly. Many current medical devices are “sterile,” lack emotionally supportive design, and convey a sense of morbid responsibility. This causes people to not use home-health products when they should. This problem is solved by designing a walker that people simply want to use. A device that has an organic feel, friendly features, and enticing curves.
• Tom Dugan pitched Bluestone Geologic, which provides Geologic Mapping Services – Aquifers & groundwater development; sinkholes & build site evaluation (pre & post build) using geophysical equipment & techniques applied to detailed underground mapping.

The winner decided by the judges, was David Nelson with EHW, LLC. The audience winner (decided via the text messaging system) was Cameron Lippert with Last Call Beverages.

All the pitches were great! We’re sure the judges had a hard time making their decision. Thanks to everyone who came out in support of this event. We were happy to see you and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. If you missed the event, you can see videos of the pitches in the Video Archives. We hope to see you at the June 27th event!

View video from the event in the Video Archives.

The February 29th 5 Across event was yet another success!  The 5 pitches were:

• Michael Ward pitched Tag-a-Pet, which uses custom NFC (near-field communication) tags with an integrated website that allows information to be stored and accessed electronically using smartphones.
• Matt King pitched an idea for a new interchangeable iPhone case. Starting with customizable back pieces, the customer can have an iPhone case that truly represents them.
• Calvin T. Mann pitched Pail Green, which is a measurement system for a personal “green” score. For environmentally conscious individuals wanting a measurement on how “green” they are.
• Wade Powell and Geoff Carlson pitched their idea for disposable cup lids for cold drinks promoted to a few different markets. One market is the long-distance running event market.  This high-flow disposable cup lid allows runners to consume water or sports drinks quickly without slowing down, choking, or spilling the liquid all over themselves.
• Michael A. Loffredo pitched ConnectIntoClass.com, which is a social utility that will allow students to collaborate with other students that would otherwise be outside their network. ConnectIntoClass.com creates a learning community comprised of students in the same class to form study groups, answer questions about lectures and the course material, solve problems, etc.

The winner decided by the judges, as well as the audience (decided via text message) was Wade Powell and Geoff Carlson with Cornerstone innovations.

All the pitches were great! We’re sure the judges had a hard time making their decision. Thanks to everyone who came out in support of this event. We were happy to see you and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. If you missed the event, you can see videos of the pitches at 5across.org. We hope to see you at the April 25th event!

View video from the event in the Video Archives.

This final 5 Across event of 2011 was a great success!

As always, the 5 pitches were the winners from all the previous events:

Shawn Campbell pitched iJonze, which is a real time, location based, on demand advertising/get the work out engine. iJonze provides businesses with the latest in technology to help them drive customers to there location and give them a very inexpensive way to do so. For the end user, they provide free web and mobile apps that allow them to find out what is actively happening in their area.

Michael A. Hartman presented Frogdice, which is a local developer of online computer games that utilize the Free-to-Play business model.

Eric Hartman pitched the ACLerator which is a physical therapy device for the sports medicine / rehabilitation market. The device is intended for muscle strengthening during post-surgical knee immobilization following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) or Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA).

Evan Leach and Scott Wagner presented a mobile application called Crowded. This free application uses live interactive play prediction and trivia at baseball games to test the knowledge of competing viewers. Players are awarded accolades and offered the incentive of prizes for top scores, which will be tied into stadium concessions and prizes. The user interface allows fans of all ages and sports knowledge to play, while effectively delivering advertisements for team and stadium sponsors.

Anthony Pistilli pitched the Guardian Ace, which does wireless real time location of assets including the management, monitoring infrastructure through a database. Presently focused on health care industry. This system will manage their equipment, provide location and allocation information, and in the process of providing this visibility, will discourage theft through alerting mechanisms in the system.

The audience winner (decided via text message) was Michael Hartman. The winner decided by the judges was Anthony Pistilli with The Guardian Ace. Congratulations Anthony on winning the $3,500 grand prize! You had a great pitch.

All the pitches were great! We’re sure the judges had a hard time making their decision. Anthony’s score was just a hair over Eric’s, with Michael score right behind theirs. It was a very close competition. Thanks to everyone who came out in support of this final event of the year as well as all the previous events. We had a record crowd out here and everyone had a great time. We here at Awesome Inc. are always happy to see you and hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did. See you all next year!

By Katharine Sagan

Anthony Schmidt won the champions edition of 5 Across with his company APOonline (apoonline.org). APOonline is a chapter management system specifically for the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity, a coed service fraternity. They offer event calendars, mass emailing, records keeping, reporting functionality, budgeting, attendance tracking and more. Services are available to chapters, sections, regions, petitioning groups, and alumni associations. There is also the APOonline Community, a social networking site open to all APO brothers. Schmidt created APOonline when he was president of his APO chapter of over 140 members at UK. His goal was to streamline meetings and promote larger membership so that they could provide more service to the community. APOonline has since spread to over fifty other chapters and sections. After creating a system for just APO, Schmidt created GreekTrack.com, which is for any Greek or non Greek organization. It has all the features of APOonline, but it is customizable to each organization. Organizations can fill out their information on the website and within the week they’ll have a website that can be used externally for recruiting and internally for organization. It is different from other companies offering this service because it focuses on national level organization; GreekTrack.com provides the administration with live data and statistics on individual chapters or groups.