Chica Chocolate, which took second place in the Big Idea competition last year, returned to take first place and $25,000 in prize money at CC\u2019s sixth annual Big Idea competition in February. The student pitch competition, with a total of $50,000 prize money at stake, is rapidly becoming one of CC\u2019s signature events. Chica Chocolate consists of team members Cassidy Lam \u201919<\/b> and Elise Morgan, a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. The company\u2019s high-quality chocolate truffles are infused with a Chinese herbal formula designed to promote hormone balance during the menstrual cycle, and are delivered to customers on a subscription basis.<\/p>\n
Taking second place and netting $15,000 in seed money was Raw Sauce, led by Alex Harros \u201918<\/b> and George Fowlkes \u201918.<\/b> Raw Sauce is a sustainable fermented foods business. In third place and receiving $10,000 in seed money was Momentics, led by Alana Aamodt<\/b>\u00a0\u201918, Anna Gilbertson \u201919<\/b>, and Josie Eichers, a finance and international business student at the University of Minnesota. Momentics is an open-ended toy kit for children ages 8-12 that leverages the viral culture of Rube Goldberg machines by upcycling old toys to create chain-reaction machines.<\/p>\n
Also making it to the finals was LifExpectancy, an iPhone application that motivates people to live healthier lives, presented by Lauren Weiss \u201921<\/b> and\u00a0Jack Hamren \u201918; <\/b>and NOWZ, a universal event aggregation app that utilizes augmented reality to display and filter local events, presented by Deming Haines \u201921,<\/b> Charlie Kellogg \u201921<\/b>, and Case Regan \u201921<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Colorado College President Jill Tiefenthaler noted that in addition to three teams being led by female students, this year\u2019s competition also featured two teams led by first-year students and had a wide representation of majors and disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chica Chocolate, which took second place in the Big Idea competition last year, returned to take first place and $25,000 in prize money at CC\u2019s sixth annual Big Idea competition in February. The student pitch competition, with a total of $50,000 prize money at stake, is rapidly becoming one of CC\u2019s signature events. Chica Chocolate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":12939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-13038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2018","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2018\/04\/CC-BUL-Spring18-05-NewsChica.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13039,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038\/revisions\/13039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}