Marietta College's Entrepreneurship Hackathon Has a Name - PioSolve
Marietta, Ohio (10/19/2022) — When Austin McCleary '22 (Marietta, Ohio) paid for a recent meal at the Busy Bee Restaurant, he proudly used a $50 gift card he won from Marietta College.
The gift card was his prize for naming the Entrepreneurship Hackathon, which is now called PioSolve. A panel of eight judges selected the name from 17 entries, six of which made it to the semifinal.
The mission of PioSolve is to engage students in problem-based, multidisciplinary learning by providing the opportunity to examine the root causes of local and global social, environmental, political, and economic problems and find creative solutions that students themselves can put into action.
The main way that PioSolve is different from other hackathons is that the recommended solutions must result in actionable items that the student competitors themselves can potentially put into action. For example, students can't simply say the government should do "this" to solve a problem. Rather, they need to offer a solution that the team of students can potentially begin the process of its implementation.
The first PioSolve competition is scheduled for 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Saturday, February 18th.
For more information, visit www.marietta.edu/hackathon.
Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy back in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers more than 50 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, as well as one of the nation's best by Forbes.com. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major.
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