{"id":956,"date":"2024-12-30T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/aincenter\/?page_id=956"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:03:23","slug":"forbes-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/aincenter\/forbes-pitch-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes Pitch Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-header-overlay-color\" data-overlay-opacity=\"default\"><\/div>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9732 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/aincenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Program-Schedule-e1771349877856-300x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/aincenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Program-Schedule-e1771349877856-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/aincenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Program-Schedule-e1771349877856-768x388.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/aincenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Program-Schedule-e1771349877856.png 911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Charles and Janet Forbes Entrepreneurial Competition<\/h3>\n<p>In 1989, Charles and Janet Forbes \u201940 provided an endowment to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to establish the Forbes Entrepreneurial Award, which encourages current, engineering students to consider the commercial potential of topics or processes they are studying.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Forbes was motivated by his belief that engineers, with an appreciation of the business aspects of new ventures, can contribute significantly to a much needed increase in manufacturing and production-oriented industry in the United States. Accordingly, the award was intended to encourage engineering students to augment their academic design projects with a business plan, including the initial organizational, financial, marketing, and production aspects of a company based on their design results.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.03125rem;\">Important Dates for Spring 2026<br \/>\n<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.25rem;\">Forbes Practice Pitch Day: Foundry Friday &#8211; April 3rd @ 2PM, Lam bizHub<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.25rem;\">Forbes Submission Deadline: April 10th @ Midnight<br \/>\nForbes Event Day (Finalists Live Pitch): April 23rd @ 4PM, G318\/418<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"divider-wrap\" data-alignment=\"default\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles and Janet Forbes Entrepreneurial Competition In 1989, Charles and Janet Forbes \u201940 provided an endowment to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to establish the Forbes Entrepreneurial Award,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-956","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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