Doors 5:45pm || Light Dinner: 6:00 pm || Program Start: 6:15
Setting: seated || Registration is free but required

Join Ridgway secondary school’s senior class as students pitch their innovation in 2-min each to receive a portion of the $7,000 seed funding pool provided by the Homegrown Pathways Youth Venture Fund!

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We’re excited host the Ridgway Spark Lab Pitch Event, the culminating experience to the Spark Lab program for students in Mr. Craig Spearman’s Personal Finance class!

This is not a typical school event. It runs much like a graduation, with families, educators, and community leaders coming together to celebrate students as they step forward to share their own stories, what they care about, and the ideas they are ready to bring into the world. As a previous Spark Lab participant shared, this event and the community support “showed [them] that [their] ideas have more potential and importance than [they] previously thought.” A prior Pitch Event attendee and community leader described this event simply as, “something that changes lives.” We invite you to come experience for yourself and to be a part of that moment.

Event Details

Date: April 22
Time: 6:00-8:00pm (doors open at 5:45, Dinner is Provided)
Location: The Sherino: 604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO 81432
Agenda:
5:45 – Check in & Doors Open/Find your seat
6:10 – Introduction
6:20 – Student Pitches
7:10 – Mingling while Homegrown Pathways & judging panel decide on funding (Food available during this time)
7:35 – Awards Ceremony & Close
Spark Lab is a 12-hour, hands-on entrepreneurship and career exploration program facilitated by Homegrown Pathways and the Western Slope Schools Career Collaborative, designed to help youth connect their passions to real-world opportunities through meaningful experiences, relationships, and skill-building.

During the event, students will present their ideas to a panel of local judges who will allocate a portion of the seed funding that Homegrown Pathways is providing. Through its Youth Venture Fund, Homegrown Pathways will be providing $7,000+ in seed funding to support these young innovators to take action on their ideas.

Your presence would mean so much to our students. A central goal of Spark Lab’s design is to empower the ideas of young people, and one of the most powerful ways we can do that is by surrounding them with respected leaders from our community who come to listen to them share their ideas at the Pitch Event.

We hope you’ll join us in celebrating the innovation and purpose-driven thinking of our SS Seniors!

Please complete the following form if you are able to attend: Click Here to Register