I had the opportunity to participate at the ENSEEIHT “Creathlon day” on December 10th 2021.
We had to make a team a few days before with students, pick a topic, and then we had the hole day to develop an entreprise creation idea, around our theme. At the end of the day each idea/project was pitched in front of all the students and a jury composed of entrepreneurs (approx. 200 people in total).
After listening to all the pitches, each team and jury voted for the project they liked the most.
We first choose the theme “raclette” (a typical french/swiss cheese and meal), because we wanted to do something really out of our regular field (not a tech startup). Also, we knew that choosing a simple theme allowed us to be more convincing, because usually for an idea the simplest is the better.
We then brainstormed to found what were we gonna do around our raclette theme. We come up with two main ideas:
We then voted, and ended up choosing the raclette fast-food, and we come up with the name “la station” (which refers to both ski stations and the general meaning of station).
We then spent the remaining time developing the concept, choosing the menu...
I then wrote the following pitch, and presented it at the audience (my team was helping to showcase the menu posters and logo while I was speaking).
I really liked this day, it was super interesting to work as a team with such a short time constraint. I think we all learned a lot, from the practice and with the entrepreneurs jury advice.
As a bonus, we even won the pitch contest !
Our (super cool) team, after we won the pitch contest: