McMillon Innovation Studio Product Teams Demo Day - Spring 2024

Overview:

The McMillon Innovation Studio serves as an innovation hub to students across the University of Arkansas campus. Our mission is to develop future leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators by cultivating their creative mindset and connecting them to opportunities to make real-world impact. Students in the studio are given access to valuable mentorship and resources, providing further support to cultivate their creative skills and empower them to deliver impact innovation through organizational, social, and entrepreneurial change.

8 Product Teams have been working throughout the spring semester on solving real problems that organizations in our community are facing. Teams will have prepared a pitch to compete on Demo Day in at the UA Collaborative in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Schedule of events:

4:00 - 4:30 PM Arrivals

4 :30 - 4:40 Introductions + Keynote

4 :40 - 6:40 - Final Round Pitches

6:40 - 6:50 Judges Deliberation & Awards Announcement

6:50 Networking Reception

Parking Details:

Free parking is available at this location. Please direct yourself to the Common Kitchen where the presentatiosn will occur.

Thank you to our student leaders, studio students, product managers, facilitators, and several project sponsors.

Canpagne - Product Manager Alex Hopper

DataDroid - Product Manager Dylan Young

BioBalance - Product Manager Nathaniel Liu

Cavity Airstream - Product Manager Ethan Pingel

Health Literacy - Product Manager Kendall Jasper

Hello World - Product Manager Rodrigo Mendez

Nestle - Product Manager Braeden Calvert

Sam's Club - Product Manager Greyson Daniels

DevelopIQ - Product Manager Andres Balderrama

Forya - Product Manager Landen Usher

Infia - Product Manager Jackson Ritchey

Book Launch - Product Manager Reagan Herrmann

Thank you to our donors:

Doug and Shelley McMillon

Kelly and Steve Barnes

Claude and Don Harris

Sunny Gosain

Alice Walton Foundation

Host or Publisher Justin Urso - Director, McMillon Innovation Studio