Campus faculty and staff with expertise in civic engagement or social entrepreneurship will select teams to pitch their venture at a pitch competition event on November 14 from 3 to 6 p.m. at Bird Library. The Impact Prize of $10,000 will be awarded at this pitch competition, culminating “The Republic of Innovation” events being held throughout Global Entrepreneurship Week November 8 – 15. The prize is supported through generous gifts to Syracuse University Libraries from Dr. Gisela M. vonDran, director emerita of the School of Information Science’s MSLIS program, and Todd B. Rubin ’04, Minister of Evolution and President of The Republic of Tea.