Innovative Thinkers Scholarship Program
Friday, December 14th by jennaThe Innovative Thinkers Scholarship Program is designed to encourage students to further develop their innovative thinking abilities. This is an annual scholarship open to students pursuing a degree in business.
To be eligible for this award, you must be:
Interested applicants should submit an essay that responds to the following question in 250 words or less:
“Governor Schwarzenegger wants you to sell miniature power generators to help alleviate the energy problem in the West. Each generator is powered by a person bicycling atop the unit for a minimum of two hours and each unit costs $400. What would be your angle and what tactics would you employ to move the 1000 units you have been given?”
This is a $500 award. Submissions must be received by April 30, 2008. Click here for more information.
Direct questions and submissions to the address below:
C-Food, Inc.
4409 McIntosh Park Drive, STE 207
Sarasota, FL 34232
USA
December 16th, 2007 at 2:20 am
To sell each unit individually would be a waste of time and resources. The most effective way to “move” 1000 bicycle-powered generators would be to have a health and fitness company purchase the stationary bicycles, en masse, for use at its facilities; and advertise/publicize it as a way for clients to loose pounds, tone muscles and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Further, as part of their promotional campaign, the health spa would return the generated electricity to the power grid, receive payment from the utility company, and donate the money to a worthy cause, such as providing funds to purchase wind-powered generators to villages in impoverished lands.
The campaign would involve some kind of slogan, such as, “Have a heart? Strengthen it.” Or, “Bicycle to Botswana on your lunch break.” Or, “Donate your fat for a good cause.” Or, “Vanity Powered.”
Making the vain stay slim, help the earth’s atmosphere, and solve the problem of providing needed energy in communities where power is unavailable is a win-win-win situation.