Canterbury Student Delivers Winning Pitch
Media Release: 11th October 2011
Canterbury Student Delivers Winning Pitch
Canterbury University Accounting student Alan Jellie has beaten over 150 other ideas to claim first prize in the inaugural 2011 Entre ‘App Challenge’ competition with PitchMeasure; an app for measuring sports pitches.
Pitchmeasure was selected by a panel of judges
as the standout idea for its originality and potential
benefit to casual sports players and people wanting an easy
way to create an impromptu sports field.
His idea came
about when some friends were arguing over where to put the
try line for a rugby game theywere setting up.
“I thought there should be a better way to do this” Jellie states. To measure a field, the user simply loads the application on their iPhone, selects what field they want to measure and an overlay will apear on their current position. They can see their exact location as they navigate their way around the edges of the pitch.
Jellie hopes the app can
by used by Physical Education teachers and casual sports
players around the world to measure ad-lib sports fields.
The Entre competition is an annual event at the
University of Canterbury and encourages innovation amongst
students.
Chief Executive Nick Hawke states “the high
number of ideas submitted shows just how keen young people
are to have a go at being an entrepreneur and is proof that
entre has an important part to play at the University of
Canterbury” Hawke states. The competition utilises local
Christchurch businesses for support, in this case local
mobile development company Mogeo assisted with the
development of the idea. Managing Director Adam Hutchinson
states “choosing just one idea was difficult but in the
end the PitchMeasure idea shone through”.
About:
Entré is a non-profit company run by students at the
University of Canterbury.
The goal of entré is to
foster the entrepreneurial spirit on campus, to encourage
innovation and educate students on the basic elements of
business development. --
Adam Hutchinson | Managing
Director