Two Student Teams to Compete in Rice Business Plan Competition


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Two Pitt teams are among 42 competitors from around the world competing for more than $1.5 million in prizes in the 2018 Rice Business Plan Competition. This is the first time two Pitt teams have been selected to compete at the Rice competition. Team Four Growers is developing a robotic tomato harvesting system and Team FRED is designing a platform for dynamic social science modeling. Both teams have been honing their entrepreneurial skills through Pitt’s Innovation Institute programs and are contestants in the March 29 Randall Family Big Idea Competition on campus.

The Rice Business Plan Competition, which bills itself as the world’s richest and largest graduate-level student startup competition, is set for April 6-7 at Rice University in Houston.