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Advanced Optronics Named Rice Business Plan Competition Finalist

Rice Business Plan Competition Announces 2022 teams

Student startups from around the world will compete for $1 million in prizes

HOUSTON – (Feb. 23, 2022) – The world’s largest and richest student startup competition will bring together the most promising student ventures from top universities across the U.S. and Europe to compete for more than $1 million in prizes and funding.

The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be back in person and on campus April 7-9.

After two years of virtual competition, the Rice Alliance expects an exceptionally engaged community of over 250 judges, mentors and investors from the Houston community and beyond to turn out for the competition.