cycleWood Solutions Wins Again

We just got back from the Venture Challenge at San Diego State.  The atmosphere out there was electric due to the success of the basketball team.  The weather was also nice and traffic was not as bad as I had imagined.  San Diego seems like a great place to live.  Maybe cycleWood Solutions will put our headquarters there.  That would be nice.  The beach was great, but the water was a little cold.

So how did we do in the competition?  We won the Green Award for being the best Green team.  We also placed third overall.  It was a busy couple of days for us.  We were the first to present Thursday morning at 8:00am.  Needless to say, we were not on our "A" game.  However, we did well enough to go to the Wild Card round.  There were four tracks and the winner of each track went to the finals, second place teams in each track went to the Wild Card round.  We had to turnaround and present again Thursday afternoon.  We made some adjustments to our presentation based on the judges feedback from the first round.  This definitely helped us win the Wild Card round and move on to the finals.  In the final round we presented last.  This gave us time to practice in the morning.  The presentation was recorded and will be posted on Youtube at some point.

We have a week off for Spring break, which will be spent on revising the business plan some and working on the presentation for Manitoba.  We'll be headed up to Winnipeg next Wednesday.  This will be the start of a grueling stretch of four competitions in a row.  While the competitions are definitely exciting, they also wear us out.  Our endurance will be tested.

First and Last Midterm

Yesterday I took my first and last midterm of the semester.  I suppose that's one of the benefits of taking a couple extra classes over the past year.  The test was in Strategic Management.  Overall it wasn't too bad.  There were a few tricky questions, but nothing unexpected.  The semester is moving along pretty quickly.  Spring break is just around the corner.  Our entrepreneurship team is headed to San Diego Thursday for our next competition.  We have a week off for Spring break then we are off to Manitoba.

Graduation is only a couple months away.  I can't believe it's almost over.  We just had our Spring social last night.  The turnout was good so there should be a reserve of great Walton MBA graduates coming in the future.  To all those currently in the program I say, enjoy your time here it'll be over before you know it.  That first semester was very busy to say the least, but we all learned a lot about business and about each other.  I've got some big decisions to make here in the next couple months.  I'll keep you all posted as I try to figure out my next move.

cycleWood Solutions Wins Again

This past weekend we were in Houston competing in the regional round of the Walmart Sustainability Business Plan competition.  We were competing against a couple other Arkansas schools, Langston, and Rice.  We won the regional competition and will be heading to the finals in Bentonville.  The competition was held at Rice so they had home field advantage.  The campus there is super nice and really big as are all things in Texas.  

These competitions are turning out to be more exhausting than I had planned.  Initially we were trying to go to as many as possible.  Thank goodness we decided to tone it down a bit.  We still have plenty of competitions but at least we have a few breaks before the home stretch.  Our next competition isn't for a couple a weeks and it's in San Diego.  I know, it sounds terrible right?  Then we have a week off before we have a stretch of four weeks straight of competitions starting with Manitoba.  Besides competitions, we have midterms coming up soon too.  It's just a busy time of the semester.