Promo Kit for Affiliates—2025 Colorado Sustainability Challenge
This page contains all the information available to help you promote this opportunity to your network and community. For Affiliate Contacts: If you have questions or suggestions, please reach out to Karen Reid, marketing and communications specialist for the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative atkaren.reid@colorado.edu.
Opportunity Information
Entrepreneurship is for EVERYONE!
Join us for the statewide 2025 Colorado Sustainability Challenge (CSC), a two-week collaborative event designed for anyone passionate about solving problems, teaming up on an idea and having fun in the process of building a solution to impact sustainability. Participants come from all academic disciplines—ranging from the Humanities to STEM—and have a shot at winning a share of thousands of dollars!
Hosted by ñ’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, CSC is a hybrid event that takes place at ñ and participating affiliate institutions. Sustainability problems can be solved with —or without— technology, and you can jump in solo or bring your friends and form a team. Whether you have an idea or are someone eager to help those ideas become real, this is an event you won't want to miss!
How Does It Work?
CSC starts with the hybrid CSC Kickoff at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28, where teams form, learn about challenge specifics and begin brainstorming their creative solutions. During the next two weeks, participants have chances to meet experienced mentors, build prototypes and turn ideas into reality. The challenge culminates with the Finals at ñ on Oct. 12—a celebration with prizes worth thousands of dollars up for grabs!
Who Can Participate?
CSC is open to students, faculty and staff at all Colorado Front Range colleges and universities.
“In a sentence”
Join us for the statewide 2025 Colorado Sustainability Challenge, where you can have fun teaming up to solve a sustainability problem—with or without technology—andhave a shot at winning a share of thousands of dollars!
When:
Colorado Sustainability Challenge Kickoff: Sunday, Sept. 28, 6-8 p.m.,at ñ and remotely for affiliate institutions
CSC kicks off with a hybrid event (based at ñ with remote participation for affiliate institutions), where teams form, learn about challenge specifics and begin working on their creative solutions.
Event Timeline: Sept. 28-Oct. 12
For two weeks, participants work alongside experienced mentors and attend workshops, meetings and pitch practice sessions in advance of submitting video pitches to the judging panel. Team solutions are judged by a panel of industry and academic leaders on multiple criteria including creativity, execution, design thinking, feasibility and scalability. Events take place at ñ and participating affiliate institutions.
CSC Finals: Sunday, Oct. 12:
CSC culminates on Sunday, Oct. 12, with the CSC Finals live at ñ, from 6-8 p.m. in the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom. Join us and see top teams pitch live to judges and the audience, with the chance to win thousands of dollars in prizes!
Where Does CSC Take Place?
CSC is held virtually and in locations across the ñ campus and Colorado Front Range colleges and universities.
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