September 19, 2025

Little Colorado Corridor

Winslow/Holbrook/
Joseph City

Congrats to our Little Colorado Corridor, AZ Winners!

  • A woman holding a large check smiling at the camera in front of a screen displaying logos of sponsors and the event title 'Moonshot Rural Arizona Pitch Competition 2025.'

    Shari McLaws

    Old Trails RV Campground

    First Place Winner

    A new RV campground near Holbrook with a community revitalization and tourism emphasis.

  • A man is smiling and holding a large check for $300, made out to Hobo Hub, dated 9/18/2025. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt. In the background, there is a presentation screen with logos and text related to Little Colorado Corridor and AZ sponsors.

    Joshua Gabaldon

    Hobo Hub (Hobo Holdings, LLC)

    Second Place

    Hobo Hub is a gym, but for creators—table saws instead of treadmills, 3D printers instead of dumbbells, a YouTube studio instead of sauna.
    We remove barriers to creativity like cost, space, and maintenance. Most makerspaces are financially dependent on educational facilities. Our for-profit model partners with property managers to offer memberships as a resident amenity, with sales, marketing, and billing built directly into rent collection. This creates instant market access, low acquisition and labor costs, and recurring revenue from a largely untapped audience.

    Hobo Hub isn’t just a workshop—it’s a scalable platform to monetize creativity and dominate the makerspace market.

  • A man with a gray beard, glasses on his head, and wearing a black shirt with a red plaid shirt over it, standing inside a room, holding a large symbolic check. Behind him are two screens, one showing an event titled 'Moonshot Rural Arizona Pitch Competition 2025,' and the other displaying a logo and text. There is a stroller or cart on the right side of the man.

    Ari Shevat

    Nailholder with the Third Ring

    Third Place

    Safety Tool for Hammering Nails: NailHolder with the Third Ring helps to start nails precisely and prevents hammering fingers, making it a must-have tool for any construction, home improvement, furniture assembly or DIY project.

Five people standing in a room, holding oversized checks, at a rural Arizona pitch competition event, with a large screen behind them displaying event information and sponsor logos.
Sponsors for the 2025 Rural AZ Pitch Competition Tour, including Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona, APS, Arizona Commerce Authority, Growth Partners Arizona, Arizona Association for Economic Development, SRP, Wells Fargo, CIC, Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Arizona SBDC, AWD Law, Resolution Copper, IDA, and Arizona Stitch Lab.

Hey Winslow, Holbrook, and Joseph City, AZ risk takers, business leaders, & entrepreneurs!

Do you have a “moonshot” business idea or an existing business you’d like to expand? Or maybe you have a product or business idea scribbled down on a napkin  or notebook, but that's as far as you've gotten?!

​If you answered YES to either question above, join us for Moonshot's 6th Annual Rural Arizona Pitch Competition for entrepreneurs and business owners (aka, a showcase like you see on ABC's Shark Tank)!

This year, we'll be taking the tour to 20 different cities/counties throughout rural Arizona. Participants will compete for the chance to win local tour stop prize money and more! But that’s not all. In October 2025, each tour stop winner will travel to beautiful Prescott, Arizona to compete for the state title and $10,000 in cash, $5,000 in cash for "Crowd Favorite”, and several NEW cash prizes! Winners from each tour stop will receive two complimentary tickets to the finals event and a one-night stay at the beautiful Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Prescott, Arizona.  
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Participation is FREE OF CHARGE, thanks to our title sponsors Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Arizona Commerce Authority, and APS, our statewide and regional sponsors, and our local sponsors listed below.

Our local Colorado Corridor sponsors make this event possible by hosting a space for the event, helping to get the word out locally, and providing local prize money for winners. We couldn’t do it without them!

Winslow city emblem with Native American design
Logo for Painted Desert Tribune showing stylized mountains with a yellow sun in the background and the text 'Painted Desert Tribune' below.
Logo of the Holbrook Chamber of Commerce featuring an illustration of a historic building with a dotted circular border.
The word 'Innergy' with a stylized green letter 'e' in the middle.

Schedule

9:00am - Welcome and Pitch Workshop

9:30am - 1:30pm - Pitch Practice
(Lunch will be provided, thanks to sponsorship by Invenergy.)

1:30pm - Final Pitch Competition Starts

2:30pm - Judge Deliberations


3:00pm - Special Thanks to Local Sponsors + Announcement of Winners


3:30pm Wrap Up

(The schedule may change/shorten depending on how many participants sign up to compete.)

Location

Winslow Northland Pioneer College
1400 E 3rd St, Winslow, AZ 86047

Prize Money

1st place = $300
The first-place winner of the Little Colorado Corridor event will win a trip to the State Finals in Prescott, AZ and a hotel stay in beautiful downtown Prescott as well as the chance to win the $10,000 grand prize, $5,000 Crowd Favorite and other various prizes at the state finals. Learn more about the finals event here.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Participation in the pitch competition is free of charge. You do not need to have experience as an entrepreneur to compete. You can simply have an idea for a product or service.

    Participants will be taught how to present a business pitch in 5 minutes.

    Each tour stop competition schedule will vary, depending on how many applicants apply. We will expect you attend the full day event, should you apply.

    A sample schedule and sample presentations from past tour stops events will be shared below. We’ll make sure you have as much reference material as possible.

    You do not need to use a slide show (like Powerpoint or Canva) to present your ideas; however, if you’d like to do so, that’s wonderful. Past winners have won local tour stop events without the assistance of slide shows.

    Learn more about what to expect and take a look at past pitch presentations here.

  • Check out individual tour stop pages listed in the menu above or go to our calendar page.

  • Check out our Participant Resources page.

  • The schedule for each tour stop will vary depending on the number of applicants who apply to compete. We’ve broken the sample agendas out below. These are subject to change. This year, we are capping the number of participants in larger tour stops to 20 participants. Applications will be accepted first come, first serve.

    Tour Site A - less than 10 applicants (smaller events/tour stops)

    Agenda A:

    8:30 AM - Welcome + Pitch Worksheet Workshop- Fill out pitch worksheet

    9:30 AM: 1st Pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on financials and business model

    10:30 or 11:00 AM: 2nd Pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on legal and branding/marketing

    12:00 or 12:30 PM: Working lunch, pitch deck cleanup

    1:30 or 2:00 PM: Start Pitch Competition

    3:00 or 3:30: Announce Winners

    Tour Site B - 10-12 applicants, 2 rooms

    Agenda B:

    8:30 AM - Welcome + Pitch Worksheet Workshop- Fill out pitch worksheet

    Break applicants into 2 groups

    9:30 AM: GROUP 1- 1st Pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on financials and business model

    GROUP 2- 1st Pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on legal and branding/marketing

    10:30 or 11:00 AM - GROUP 1- Pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on legal and branding/marketing

    GROUP 2- 2nd Pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on financials and business model

    12:00 or 12:30 PM: Working lunch, pitch deck cleanup

    1:30 or 2:00 PM: Start Pitch Competition

    3:00 or 3:30: Announce Winners

    Tour Site C- 12-20 applicants, 3 rooms

    Agenda C:

    8:30 AM - Welcome + Pitch Worksheet Workshop- Fill out pitch worksheet

    Break applicants into 3 groups

    9:30 AM: GROUP 1- 1st Pitch Practice Workshop

    GROUP 2- 1st Pitch Practice Workshop

    GROUP 3- 1st Pitch Practice Workshop

    10:30 or 11:00 AM - GROUP 1- 2nd Pitch Practice Workshop

    GROUP 2- 2nd Pitch Practice Workshop

    GROUP 3- 2nd Pitch Practice Workshop

    Participants will only attend 2 of 3 practice rounds/ Applicants will be cut down to 8-10 for the finals

    12:00 or 12:30 PM - Working lunch, pitch deck cleanup

    1:30 or 2:00 PM - Start Pitch Competition

    3:00 or 3:30 - Announce Winners

  • See examples of past pitch presentations here.

  • Here’s an example of the pitch worksheet that all participants receive at the beginning of the day. It walks you through how to pitch your idea/business and what elements you need to include.