{"id":4462,"date":"2018-06-08T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T16:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/for-wisconsin\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=4462"},"modified":"2018-06-08T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T16:16:26","slug":"uw-green-bay-student-sam-hunt-takes-winning-idea-to-international-competition","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-green-bay-student-sam-hunt-takes-winning-idea-to-international-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Green Bay student Sam Hunt takes winning idea to international competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/for-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2018\/05\/GRB_SamHunt_InternationalCompetition_IMG_20180511_114245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4465 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/for-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2018\/05\/GRB_SamHunt_InternationalCompetition_IMG_20180511_114245-e1527026191201-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UW-Green Bay\u00a0student entrepreneur Sam Hunt\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbaypressgazette.com\/story\/money\/2017\/07\/10\/uwgb-student-developing-healthy-mason-jar-meal-business\/465728001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Local Food Experimen<\/em>t<\/a>\u00a0won the state\u2019s Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament (WBIT), sponsored by WiSys. The win earns Sam $2,500 and a trip to compete at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessmodelcompetition.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Business Model Competition<\/a>\u00a0in Provo, Utah, May 10-11. At the international competition, Sam was up against teams from Harvard, Iowa, Michigan State, Tulane, Quinnipiac, Mississippi, and BYU, as well as from Mexico, Chile, Canada, Peru, Brazil, Cambodia, Japan, Jamaica and India. He was a semifinalist in the international competition, earning $3,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sam\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Local Food Experiment<\/em>\u00a0was an at-large entry to the WBIT through the Innovation in Aging event this year. The Local Food Experiment placed second at last year\u2019s UWGB Student Business Idea Contest, won a student business award this year at Force for Positive Change in Milwaukee, pitched in \u201cThe Pitch\u201d\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/thepitchfoxcities.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thepitchfoxcities.com<\/a>) last year against other Northeast Wisconsin colleges, and has presented at 1 Million Cups Green Bay (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.1millioncups.com\/GreenBay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.1MillionCups.com\/GreenBay<\/a>) and various other community events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam is also the inventor of PrecisionLAG (see video), a golf swing training aid.<\/strong> With that invention he won this year\u2019s UWGB Student Business Idea Contest and earned a STEM in Business Award from WiSys, placed third at this year\u2019s \u201cThe Pitch,\u201d and is a graduate of the second ever cohort of the gBETA Northeast Wisconsin free accelerator program, recently presenting at their LiveBETA event in April.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on and photos from the WBIT and The Local Food Experiment\u2019s win, see WiSys\u2019 press release about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisys.org\/news-media\/uw-green-bay-uw-whitewater-uw-milwaukee-students-take-home-prizes-in-2018-wisconsin-big-idea-tournament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tournament\u2019s results<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.1952756804757417.1073741830.222892024410579&amp;type=1&amp;l=4b978a8d3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WiSys\u2019 Facebook page<\/a>, where you can also see UW-Green Bay\u2019s team from startup\u00a0<em>Stability<\/em>\u00a0competing.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KimeY8z5nJQ&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW-Green Bay\u00a0student entrepreneur Sam Hunt\u2019s\u00a0The Local Food Experiment\u00a0won the state\u2019s Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament (WBIT), sponsored by WiSys. The win earns Sam $2,500 and a trip to compete at the\u00a0International Business Model Competition\u00a0in Provo, Utah, May 10-11. At the international competition, Sam was up against teams from Harvard, Iowa, Michigan State, Tulane, Quinnipiac, Mississippi, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[111],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-4462","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-green-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}