Austin Community College District (ACC) is hosting NEST-FEST 2025, a student-led entrepreneurship pitch competition on Friday, November 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hosted by the newly created Entrepreneurship Development & Growth Events (EDGE) Team, this gives you the chance to gain real-world experience, learn from other student entrepreneurs, and network with Austin’s entrepreneurship community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All ACC students are invited to pitch their business ideas to mentor panelists to compete for recognition and awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NEST-FEST 2025 Student Pitch Competition<\/strong> Students can register or submit their ideas at nest-fest.org<\/strong><\/a>. Applications must be submitted by Wednesday, November 5. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Student volunteers are also needed for the event, and can sign up on the NEST-FEST website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The EDGE Team is supported by the Office for the Future under the newly formed Entrepreneurship & Innovation Academy (EIA), and with guidance from advisors Harshal Shah, founder of The Venture Build, and Dr. Andrea Kehoe, Head of Product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Students can join the ACC entrepreneurial community through their Discord<\/strong><\/a> or learn more about the Edge Team here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Austin Community College District (ACC) is hosting NEST-FEST 2025, a student-led entrepreneurship pitch competition on Friday, November 7. Hosted by the newly created Entrepreneurship Development & Growth Events (EDGE) Team, this gives you the chance to gain real-world experience, learn from other student entrepreneurs, and network with Austin’s entrepreneurship community. All ACC students are invited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":49665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1414,1413,1412],"class_list":["post-51760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-for-you","tag-edge","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-nest-fest","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>Date:<\/strong> Friday, November 7, 2025
Time:<\/strong> 2\u20136 p.m.
<\/strong>Location:<\/strong> ACC Riverside Campus, Presentation Hall (Building G, Room 8100)<\/p>\n\n\n\n