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Global Innovation Tournament 2009

The Global innovation Tournament is an event where a mystery problem will be revealed on November 4 at which time student teams from around the world will have just eight days to create as much value as possible for a common world problem and convey their results in a short video posted to YouTube. No pre-work is required. The Global Innovation Tournament is being organized locally in the Innovation Valley by the Innovation Valley Tech Council, Oak Ridge Economic Partnership (a partner of Innovation Valley, Inc.) and the University of Tennessee Research Foundation as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

To enter the Global Innovation Tournament local competition, student teams must register at www.webjam.com/innovationvalley. Once the problem is revealed, students must show how they solved the problem by creating a short video. Videos must be posted to the official tournament website by Friday, November 13.

All local entries will be judged by the Innovation Valley Tech Council, consisting of local business leaders and entrepreneurs, during their monthly luncheon at Tech 2020 in Oak Ridge on November 18. The top three entries will then be submitted for the global contest and winners will be announced online on Thursday, December 3.