The faculty members and students of Information Technology Education (ITE) and Electronics & Communication Engineering (EcE) programs attended the 1st Startup Weekend Butuan-Caraga held at the CBE Function Hall - Father Saturnino Urios University, September 1 - 3, 2017.
The Startup Weekend Butuan-Caraga was organised by Ideya, RISPhilippines, DICT- Butuan City, DTI Caraga with its collaborative partners, the Caraga ICT Council, the City Government of Butuan and IdeaSpace Philippines.
Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to provide superior experiential education for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs. Participants in these events create working startups and are able to collaborate with like-minded individuals outside of their daily networks.
The Butuan participants in this StartupWeekend were able to PITCH ideas, VOTE for their favorite idea and formed a team, BUILD something real by putting members to work, build a real product, team and brand for execution in the real world, and LAUNCH their ideas by putting final touches on the product for the presentation to the judges.
Participants were able to pitch 19 ideas down to the final 8 ideas.
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