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Project Pitch It television program airing Saturdays at 10:35 PM on WISN-TV 12

Project Pitch It

Stritch-sponsored show features student entrepreneurs in fourth season

Project Pitch It, the television show presented by Cardinal Stritch University, will return for its fourth season in 2020. The program airs Saturdays at 10:35 p.m. on WISN-TV 12 in Milwaukee and will showcase 27 Wisconsin entrepreneurs over nine episodes.

The program’s executive producers, Bev Greenberg and Dean Maytag, created a special focus on middle and high school entrepreneurs this season. Student entrepreneurs and teams of entrepreneurs from these schools will be featured during the season: Barack Obama High School, Milwaukee; Brookfield Academy; Catholic Memorial High School, Waukesha; East High School and Roosevelt Elementary School, Wauwatosa; Kettle Moraine High School; LaFollette High School, Madison; Notre Dame Middle Schools, Milwaukee; Steffen Middle School, Mequon; and University School of Milwaukee.

Each week entrepreneurs pitch their businesses/products to business moguls Dr. Debbie Allen, Peggy Ann, David Gruber and Jerry Jendusa. Every entrepreneur receives one of three awards, with the total value of the weekly awards worth more than $30,000. The Stritch Pitch Award includes up to three courses at Stritch, access to innovation space and faculty and staff mentoring for one year.

These entrepreneurs will participate in Season 4:

  • DoodleMash
  • eCourt Reporters
  • Elsa Mae’s Canning & Pies
  • ERbin Growthchart
  • Kan U Hoop
  • NovoMoto
  • Optimizations Venture
  • PumpHero
  • Real Milk and Honey
  • Safety 4 Her
  • Satori Food Project
  • Scratch Ice Cream
  • Sheboatin’ Slide Gourmet Potato Chips
  • Stonehouse Water Technologies
  • WheeliWorld
  • Xena Workwear

Project Pitch It airs in every television market in the state and has more than 80,000 weekly viewers. In addition to WISN-TV 12, the statewide network includes:

  • WSAW/WZAW-TV 7 (Wausau)
  • WBAY-TV 2 (Green Bay)
  • WKBT-TV 8 (La Crosse)
  • WKOW-TV 27 (Madison)