Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge

In The News

• Student Entrepreneurs Wow Industry Judges with Highly Technical Business Products, Win Over $20k in Seed Money, Makerspace
  The winning project, called OrbitOWLS, utilizes new technology to send small satellites and other devices to space for a fraction of the price of current methods.
• Student Entrepreneurs Form Teams for Fourth Annual Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge
  The Catalyze Meet-and-Greet, held January 17 at Gaucho Collective, allowed teams to meet one another and connect with many of the mentors available to aid them in their missions.
• County joins those funding Catalyze Klamath
  Klamath County commissioners have dedicated $5,000 to support the fourth annual Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge as the program prepares to expand its reach. The funding was approved unanimously from the county’s economic development budget and was a re-authorization of $5,000 dedicated last year.
• 'Innovation close to home'; Catalyze Klamath kicks off
  Students gathered at to the Gaucho Collective to learn more about this year’s competition, themed “Innovation close to home.”
• Oregon Tech Announces Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge 2018
  Building on the success of the Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge in 2016 and 2017, Oregon Tech is revving up its innovative engines again!
• Student Entrepreneurs Wow Industry Judges with Highly Technical Business Products, Win $20k in Seed Money and Services
  The winning project, called Helios Hive, is an invention by Renewable Energy Engineering student Mathias Dean. Mathias went home with $10,000
• Final Competition Will Award $14,000 Seed Funding to Winning Teams
  Building on the success of the Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge in 2015 and 2016, Oregon Tech is revving up its innovative engines again!
• Eyes on the prize at Shark Tech
  Seven judges, seven teams of Oregon Tech students, and multiple hours of preparation will all come together in May as students vie for a $15,000 cash prize from Catalyze Klamath, an entrepreneurial pitch competition. But first, students participating in the Fourth annual Catalyze Klamath competition tested their project’s mettle with a panel of “Shark Tech” judges Wednesday.
• Oregon Tech Announces Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge 2017
  Building on the success of the Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge in 2015 and 2016, Oregon Tech is revving up its innovative engines again!
• Oregon Tech Student Entrepreneurs Wow Industry Judges with Highly Technical Business Products, Win $17k in Seed Money and Services
  The winning team, called GO Possibilities, won based on their production of graphene oxide and development of 3-D printers that convert it into printable sheets used for energy storage in numerous applications
• Catalyze Klamath Falls Student Entrepreneurs Prepare Presentations
  Competitors will present their entrepreneurial pitches at the final competition on Tuesday, May 17th from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Oregon Tech Announces Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge 2016
  Building on the success of the first Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge in 2015, Oregon Tech is revving up its innovative engines for Catalyze 2.0
• Oregon Tech Entrepreneurs Win Seed Money for Business Development
  Sustainable agriculture production system, Gro-volution, wins first-ever Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge
• Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge Gains Momentum
  5 competitors in the Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge just wrapped up their first competitive event in the challenge with a $9,000 prize pool from donations from Senator Whitsett & Representative Whitsett, and Klamath County
• Self-contained farms
  The company’s proposed business model involves taking standard shipping containers and transforming them into self-contained, continually producing farms
• Oregon Tech students share ideas for start-ups at Klamath IDEA talk
  Business incubator aims to foster a culture of innovative entrepreneurship
• Registration open for Tech entrepreneurship program
  Catalyze Klamath Falls Challenge to encourage solutions for job growth in Klamath County
• Oregon Tech Launches Catalyze Klamath Innovation Challenge
  Oregon Tech brings Innovation Close to Home with a new challenge specifically targeting business growth and relevant project experiences for students