{"id":3030,"date":"2025-03-10T20:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3030"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:47:01","slug":"furmans-next-big-idea-3","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/event\/furmans-next-big-idea-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s Next Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW58111570 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW58111570 BCX0\">Furman\u2019s Next Big Idea is a biannual competitive innovation challenge designed to empower students to tackle real-world problems with sustainable solutions. This event fosters collaboration between students, academic departments, and industry partners, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW58111570 BCX0\">providing<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW58111570 BCX0\"> an experiential learning opportunity to address pressing issues across various disciplines. With a focus on conceptualizing innovative solutions rather than fully developed business ventures, students will brainstorm, design, and present practical solutions to broad problem areas presented by partners.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW58111570 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Applications are open for Fall 2025 &#8211; please email <a href=\"mailto:innovation@furman.edu\">innovation@furman.edu<\/a> if you want to know more about the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman\u2019s Next Big Idea is a biannual competitive innovation challenge designed to empower students to tackle real-world problems with sustainable solutions. This event fosters collaboration between students, academic departments, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":2985,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-3030","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3030\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/innovation-entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}