Event Type : Featured Event

CO+HOOTS Institute for Entrepreneurship’s capstone event “Flight Night 2024: A Student Startup Pitch Battle presented by Landings Credit Union” is an electrifying showdown of ambitious business ideas and fearless pitches.

CO+HOOTS Institute students, armed with nothing but their dreams and a killer business plan, pitch to win a cash prize to invest in their venture.

This is your chance to be in the audience as the students try to secure the support they need to turn dreams into reality in front of a distinguished panel of industry titans!

As our talented cohort of budding entrepreneurs showcase their business ideas, you’ll witness first hand the passion, creativity and dedication that define the CO+HOOTS Institute for Entrepreneurship. Grab your ticket now, because this is not just a pitch event; it will be a spectacle.

About CO+HOOTS Institute for Entrepreneurship: A collaboration between CO+HOOTS Coworking and Benedictine University. The Institute is an entrepreneur immersion program to nurture, improve and accelerate students’ entrepreneurial traits and skills. The CO+HOOTS Institute for Entrepreneurship at Benedictine University Mesa stands as the sole program of its kind in the country.

Event Schedule

5PM: Social hour (food + drinks)

6PM: Welcome + Keynote Speaker

7PM: Student Pitches

745PM: Cash Prize Award Winner Announced

Tickets

Tickets to this event are free, but if you decide to be a Champion of Student Entrepreneurship, you can choose a Pay What You Want ticket. You can contrbitue whatever amount you wish. ALL PROCEEDS are added to the pool of money dedicated to college scholarships for CO+HOOTS Institute for Entrepreneurship students at Benedictine University.

In the last two years, the CO+HOOTS Foundation Equity Now College Scholarship Award has awarded more than $10,000 in scholarship money to six deserving ethnic minority student entrepreneurs (who have also proven financial need).

BONUS, Your contribution will go even further. Local nonprofit Dougherty Foundation will MATCH every contribution by 50%!

Help us impact even more students and lift others up!