We recently got an invitation from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia to send teams to its 4th Annual Innovation Challenge MBA Case Competition, sponsored by DaimlerChrysler, Whirpool, American Express, and General Electric.

A quick set of emails to the Sloan student body resulted in greater than 50 MBA students and Sloan Fellows interested in participating. Last year, Sloan placed in the top 10 out of 321 business school teams and with a $20,000 grand prize, it’s no wonder that there’s so much interest from the Sloan student body.

Of particular note: The student teams select the Challenge Sponsor of greatest interest to them and then tackle a challenge from that sponsor. A team of various innovation experts then vote on the challenge solutions and crown the Most Innovation team.

Let’s go Sloan!