{"id":1727,"date":"2025-03-19T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2025-03-19T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T21:03:46","slug":"2025-cross-tank-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2025\/03\/19\/2025-cross-tank-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Cross Tank Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1728\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Cross-Tank-Meet-the-Judges.jpg\" alt=\"Cross Tank Judges 2025\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Cross-Tank-Meet-the-Judges.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Cross-Tank-Meet-the-Judges-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Cross-Tank-Meet-the-Judges-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Cross-Tank-Meet-the-Judges-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Cross-Tank-Meet-the-Judges-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, March 24, 2025, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, fourteen teams will compete in this year&#8217;s Cross Tank competition. Teams will pitch their business ideas and prototypes to a panel of judges, with the best pitches earning cash prizes and potential mentoring opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this year&#8217;s competition teams will compete in two categories, Idea Stage (typically pre funding) and Commitment Stage (early funding and or Minimum Viable Product (MVP)). The following teams will be pitching their innovative business ideas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brady Higgins 26\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Julia Jenkins 26, Paul Korian 27, Will Messineo 26<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caroline Hanson 27, Maura Switzer 25, Grace Donahue 25, Sarah O\u2019sullivan 25, Lauren Halverson 25, Sarah Stokes 25, Meggan Fourie 25<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jack Murphy 27<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Madison Murphy 25<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flynn Harper 27, Timothy Wright 27, James McGuire 27<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrew Trachimowicz 27<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bernat Sepulcre 28, Matthew Stevens 28, Max Barker 28, Brendan Manoogian 28<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nico Corporon 26<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Logan Mott 27<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sydnee Ambrosino 27<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luke Shoemaker 25<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anna Henry 28<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Jacobson 27<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our panel of alumni judges will evaluate based on the market opportunity, viability of the business idea, path to profits, and the scalability of the business model.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brittany-fantau-348215a2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brittany Fanatu \u201815<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Insurance Agent at Marc Alkes Insurance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michael-f-kane-ii\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael Kane \u201823<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Economic Development Associate at Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rich-mynahan-9588b54\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rich Mynahan \u201893<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Partner at ClearView Healthcare Partners<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/samantha-sweet-7756b31aa\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samantha Sweet \u201821<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Startup Customer Success Manager at Ashby<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Best of luck to all the teams competing in the 2025 Cross Tank Competition!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, March 24, 2025, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, fourteen teams will compete in this year&#8217;s Cross Tank competition. Teams will pitch their business ideas and prototypes to a panel of judges, with the best pitches earning cash prizes and potential mentoring opportunities. In this year&#8217;s competition teams will compete in two categories, Idea Stage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2025\/03\/19\/2025-cross-tank-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2025 Cross Tank Competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}