O' Canada

This past weekend we were in Canada, Winnipeg to be exact, for the Stu Clark Investment Competition.  We won two prizes.  We won the Royal Bank of Canada Challenge Round, winning $2,000, and we also won the elevator pitch, winning a $2,000 dinner.

The dinner was an amazing experience.  It was a five course meal with five wines paired up by a sommelier.  The dinner included a 7 lb lobster that was probably 100 years old, a rack of lamb, ribs, filet mignon, New York strip, Vietnamese tiger prawns, a couple salad dishes, wild mushrooms, carpaccio, creme brule, chocolate cheesecake, and blueberry bread pudding.  There were some other items, but that's all I can remember.  Needless to say we were quite full afterwards.

The experience in Winnipeg was great, we met some great folks up there.  We invited the keynote speaker to come down to Fayetteville this Fall and he agreed.  The advice and feedback we receive is so much more valuable than the actual monetary prizes.  We formally decided to move forward with cycleWood Solutions, LLC.  This is a huge step for us.  We are working with the our Chemistry and Chemical Engineering departments to develop a prototype.

Another piece of good news we received over the weekends is that we have been extended an at-large berth into the Venture Labs (formerly Moot Corp) competition.  So we'll be headed down to Austin in the beginning of May.

Next up for us is Arkansas Governor's Cup.  We'll be headed down to Little Rock Thursday morning.  We present Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.  Wish us luck.