ASU Herberger Institute showcase provides platform for big ideas


Last year's IDEA Showcase Audience Choice Award winner, Marieke Davis, is flanked by Herberger Institute Dean Steven J. Tepper and Linda Essig, director of the Herberger Institute Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programs.

Last year's IDEA Showcase Audience Choice Award winner, Marieke Davis, is flanked by Herberger Institute Dean Steven J. Tepper and Linda Essig, director of the Herberger Institute Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programs.

The Office of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts announces its second annual Herberger Institute Mike Curb Student IDEA Showcase (Innovation in Design, Entertainment and Arts). Initiated as a forum for students to highlight their most creative and innovative ideas, the showcase gives each entrant two minutes — just 120 seconds — to share their story of creativity and innovation. 

This event will feature more than 20 current Herberger Institute students pitching to a panel of community leaders, which includes Carlton Turner, executive director of Alternate Roots and keynote speaker at the Fifth Biennial Pave Symposium the next day, as well as Julie Akerly, founder of Mesa-based [nueBOX] and a Pave Venture Incubator alum. Each of the Herberger Institute’s five schools will be represented at the event. First place will be awarded $500, and the audience choice winner will receive a $250 prize.

Read about one of last year's showcase winners. 

Join the Herberger Institute for this evening of networking, snacks and the lightning-fast sharing of Herberger Institute student ideas.

Herberger Institute Mike Curb Student IDEA Showcase

5-7 p.m. May 4 
Tempe Center Annex
699 S. Mill Ave., Ste. 108
Tempe, Arizona 

The showcase is free and open to the public. 

For more information or to RSVP, contact Nyomi Gruber at [email protected].

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