5Ć5 Night On the Road In Spanish! Partnered with LAUP in Holland
Voting Closes:
September 16, 2024 11:59 pm
Impact
There are two parties that benefit the most from Kreative Horizon and our builders league: students and sponsors.
Students get the opportunity to build real things outside of the classroom, getting the most useful education: experience. I know that as a student myself, events like these breathe new life into the work I am doing and into what I am studying at Iowa State. Hackathons give me the chance to learn new skills, meet new people, and potentially walk away with a new side project/business idea. Pitch competitions (like 5x5!) grant me the chance to practice my sales skills and test the ideas that I believe in. Students from past Kreative Horizon hackathons have come up to me and said that our events have literally reinvigorated their spirits to keep building. Some said our events were the one of the most important experiences in their lives. The impact of Kreative Horizon is very real and very tangible.
Sponsors benefit from getting to access one of the most competitive and hard to reach pools of talent: students that genuinely care about learning/building. As society inches closer and closer to digitalization, AI, and being technology-first, more and more firms are going to need to hire tech talent. This will include but is not limited to software engineering, UI/UX design, project managers, data scientists, electrical engineers, and more. While many recruiting methods work, it's difficult for recruiters to pin point exactly which students *care*. However, with Kreative Horizon, we will have access to events across the nation that are partnered with the Kreative Builders League that attract the brightest, innovation-first students across campuses everywhere. By working with us, they will be able to launch an in-person, tight-knit recruiting campaign across the country with just one partner.
What I'll do with $5,000
We will use the prize money to do two things: 1) bring on 3 new partner events that we do not run in-house, and 2) open up 2 more Horizon Builders Club (on-campus student organizations that act as liaisons between our business and students on campus) at DMACC and Drake. We will need $2000 to open up the new HBC chapters. These funds will be used for reimbursing fuel for traveling to campuses, food and drinks for student meetings, marketing materials such as stickers, foam boards, buttons, etc, and grant money to help these campuses start their own hackathons. For bringing on 3 new partners, we will need $1000 per partner ($250 emergency budget, $350 traveling expenses to send a Kreative Horizon staff member to assist the partner event organizers, $400 in marketing and programming for each partner).