{"id":1416,"date":"2018-03-25T23:44:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/yuma\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2023-07-13T19:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:54:47","slug":"startup-weekend-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/blog\/startup-weekend-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Weekend 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Northern Arizona University-Yuma and Arizona Western College hosted a second annual \u201cStartup Weekend\u201d in Yuma on March 23-25 to help aspiring entrepreneurs launch their business ideas.&nbsp; Startup Weekends are designed to assist persons with launching their ideas for new businesses and technologies.&nbsp; These events are growing in popularity around the United States and are now held in over 100 countries.&nbsp; This year\u2019s AWC\/NAU Startup Weekend attracted nearly 100 attendees from the U.S. and Mexico, many of whom came from universities in Baja California. First place was won by \u201cChemical Heroes\u201d, a group working on the development of an educational game designed to teach chemistry. Their prize was a business startup package valued at over $3,000 that was contributed by Imaginary Friends Design Studios of Yuma.&nbsp; Planning is underway for our third annual Startup Weekend which will take place in the spring of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2018\/03\/Startup-2-960x384-1.jpg\" alt=\"AWC\/NAU Startup Weekend winners &quot;Chemical Heroes&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-6357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2018\/03\/Startup-2-960x384-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2018\/03\/Startup-2-960x384-1-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2018\/03\/Startup-2-960x384-1-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2018\/03\/Startup-2-960x384-1-800x320.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona University-Yuma and Arizona Western College hosted a second annual \u201cStartup Weekend\u201d in Yuma on March 23-25 to help aspiring entrepreneurs launch their business ideas.  Startup Weekends are designed to assist persons with launching their ideas for new businesses and technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-higher-learning","category-nau-yuma","tag-nursing-special-ed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7028,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/7028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/yuma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}