Make Your Mark with a Ball

Kick-Off on November 18, 2009, 3 PM TO 5 PM

Warmer Auditorium 1060 Bishop St, Penthouse

Harness young people’s passion for sport by encouraging them to come up with enterprising and creative ideas to make money using just a ball. What ball they use is entirely up to them, and the more creative and whacky the ideas, the better! They will donate their profits to their favorite charity or cause.

Participating teams will describe what they did in a video of not more than 3 minutes and submit the video file.

• Motivational Speaker – presentation by an entrepreneur with a passion for sports plus Q &A
• Rules for the Challenge
• Pass the ball! (teams draw the ball)
• Lucky draw prizes for attendees
• Refreshments and Mixer

Guidelines and Features of the Event:

• Teams have 2 to 5 students and can be mixed e.g. members from different schools
• Also open to students from HPU, universities, high schools, and community colleges in Hawaii 
• Teams will choose and use their own balls i.e. basketball, soccer, football, rugby, golf, tennis, etc.
• Judges are sports celebrity, entrepreneurs, managers and owners of sports retail businesses
• Experiential prizes can be contributed by athletes, sports entrepreneur e.g. a game of golf with a golf pro; a game of tennis with a tennis pro; kayaking, sailing…

Instructions for Participants

Your challenge is to select a ball and plan to make as much money as you can with the ball in three days. Describe what you did in a video of not more than 3 minutes and upload it on YouTube. Submit the URL information to Athletics Dept by Thursday, November 20 at 5 PM.

To be successful: challenge assumptions, seize opportunities, and be creative!

Click on Registration to Sign Up!

General Rules for HPU and Hawaii:

• Each team will receive a ball (available stock) on November 18 during the Make Your Mark with a Ball event at Warmer Auditorium, 1060 Bishop Street, Penthouse at 3 PM. You may also use a ball that you already have.
• Teams will have three days to make as much money as possible with the ball.
• By Thursday, November 20, before or by 5 PM, each team must submit a 3-minute (or less) video that communicates its results to a special page on YouTube and also send the URL link to the Athletics Dept.
• Finalist teams will present their videos on Saturday, November 22 from 1 pm to 2:30 pm at the Hawaii Young Entrepreneurs Summit and Fest and the results will be announced at the Closing Celebration at 4 pm. The Closing Celebration is from 4 PM to 6 PM. One-of-a-Kind prizes will be given to the winning teams in a variety of categories.

Tip: Value comes from actually implementing your ideas; unexecuted ideas may be submitted but will likely not qualify for prizes.

Important Events and deadlines for Hawaii

• Sign Up at www.hpu.edu/athletics before or by 18 Nov. 
• Participants have to create a YouTube account and join the GEW_Hawaii YouTube group at http://youtube.com/group/gewHawaii (not active yet)
• Attend the Kick Off on 18 November, starting at 3 pm to 5 pm at the Warmer Auditorium.
• Get going and complete on the challenge in three days! Describe your project in a video that is not more than 3 minutes or less than 100 MB, and ….
• Upload the video on YouTube on November 20 before or by 5 PM (Hawaii Time) at http://youtube.com/group/gewHawaii (not active yet). 
• Submit your video URL and information to complete your entry to the Athletics Dept homepage www.hpu.edu/athletics. 
• Want to know if you’re one of the winners? Do attend the Hawaii Young Entrepreneurs Summit and Fest Closing Celebration on Saturday, November 22 at the HPU Hawaii Loa Campus at 4 pm. Winning teams will give a five-minute presentation of their creative project.

Prizes and Awards - Every Team a Winner

The prizes are experiential in kind. The winning teams will have the opportunity to meet one-to-one and share a meal, play a game, or attend an exciting event with an entrepreneur, CEO or celebrity in the sports and athletics field.

Examples of award categories are (additional award categories may be created by the Judges):

• Enterprise Award (team earned the most money)
• Value Award (team's project created a lot of value)
• Most Creative

The Video must convey the following information

1. Title of Team and Names of Team Members

2. School/university/college attending/organization

3. The selected ball

4. What was your idea for making money with the ball?

5. Why did you select this idea? What value did you want to create from this idea?

6. Who was your target customer and why this customer group?

7. How did you encourage the customer to “buy” your service/product?

8. How much money did you make?

9. Which favorite cause or charity will you give the profits to?

About Global Entrepreneurship Week

For one week from November 17-23, 2008, millions of young people around the world will join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. Countries are coming together for the first time to bring about the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), an initiative to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity: To think big ~ to turn their ideas into reality ~ to “make their mark”.

Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) is delighted to be the regional director of GEW for Hawaii and will organize a week filled with exciting programs and events to celebrate entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and inspire a future generation of entrepreneurs who will change the world for the better. The week begins on 17 November and will culminate in a day-long Summit and Fest at HPU’s Hawaii Loa campus on 22 November. Events and programs are open to universities, high schools and community colleges in Hawaii. HPU will work with local organizations to achieve the maximum reach and positive impact. http://www.unleashingideas.org/

About HPU Athletics Program

The intercollegiate athletics program of Hawai`i Pacific University is an integral part of the Institution’s total educational program, subject to the same aims, policies and standards as other institutional programs. It complies, as well, with the philosophy, rules and standards adopted by The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), of which it is a member. Intercollegiate athletics is an integral part of academic life of Hawai`i Pacific University. Properly administered, intercollegiate athletics provides benefits to a university’s educational and financial support.

Hawai`i Pacific University’s intercollegiate athletic program is organized and administered as part of the total educational program and provides the opportunity for athletic competition at the highest level of ability with national recognition for both men and women.

The University’s academic policies assure that athletes fulfill their responsibilities as students. Students are expected to receive academic degrees within a maximum of ten semesters of attendance; thus, athletic eligibility is limited to this period of attendance. The NCAA has adopted rules and standards that require that a student-athlete be fully eligible for every intercollegiate contest in which the University participates. Hawai`i Pacific University complies fastidiously with these rules and standards to ensure the academic, and physical, emotional and social welfare of student-athletes.

About HPU Entrepreneurship Center

Established in October, 2007, Hawai‘i Pacific University’s Entrepreneurship Center (HEC) has a three-fold mission that focuses on promoting entrepreneurial ventures by members of HPU and the greater community through an integration of entrepreneurship education, outreach, and applied research. It is expected to become the cultivating site for entrepreneurial dialogue, networking, and training for all HEC participants.

Several programs and activities are being developed to facilitate entrepreneurship education at HEC. Venture internships will be structured to provide students and faculty with real work experience in early stage fast growth firms and focus on specific value adding projects in Hawaii and abroad. Additionally, undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from continuing education entrepreneurship training programs, a consulting laboratory, and student-driven business plan competitions. Accordingly, the entrepreneurship curriculums for MBA and undergraduate programs can expect to become more closely integrated, providing a smother transition between the two.

The center will also execute a number of outreach projects, which will strengthen and promote inter and intra HPU relationships with alumni and the greater community. www.hpu.edu/entrepreneurship

Please Contact:

Tel: 808-6877068 Fax: 808-6877067

bchua@hpu.edu www.hpu.edu/entrepreneurship