Competitions

Your Eccles School experience may start in a classroom, but it won’t be confined to one. Throughout your degree, undergraduate students have the opportunity to participate in a number of business case competitions outside the classroom. Opportunities to earn seed funding, create product innovations and gain entrepreneurial mentors are just a small benefit of case competitions.

Bench-2-Bedside

The Bench-to-Bedside competition is a vibrant program created to expose students from different fields of study such as medical, engineering and business to the world of medical-device innovation.

Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative

The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative actively engages students to build a solid, principle-based ethical framework central to decision-making in a complex business environment. It works to integrate ethics instruction throughout the curriculum that includes real-world practical applications.

Games4Health

Games4Health is a global, student game design competition with more than $60,000 in prizes. The competition is hosted by the University of Utah’s Sorenson Center for Discovery & Innovation. Games4Health challenges students and their teams to design a game or an app that promotes health.

Get Seeded

Get Seeded is a program sponsored by Zions Bank to help student-entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground. Students pitch their ideas to judges who determine whether they advance for an opportunity to receive funding.

Opportunity Quest

Opportunity Quest (OQ) is an executive summary competition hosted by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute across the state at partner universities.

Utah Entrepreneur Challenge

The Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (UEC) is a statewide, student business-model competition where teams from universities across the state compete for the best business plan and a chance to win more than $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.

Utah Real Estate Challenge

The Utah Real Estate Challenge is an intercollegiate real estate development competition for undergraduate and graduate students throughout the state of Utah. The competition fosters understanding of real estate development by giving students the opportunity to prepare and present a real estate development plan.

Game Day Ad Analytics Blitz

In the Game Day Ad Analytics Blitz, student teams collect Twitter data posted during the Super Bowl and analyze tweets for advertising insights. Winning teams receive cash, scholarships and guaranteed interviews with sponsor companies.