RECESS

Now Booking Spring 2015

One Day College Music and Ideas Festival

Recess is a music + ideas festival that brings together successful entrepreneurs, the coolest new startups and the hottest acts in music to inspire the next generation of world changing entrepreneurs.

The Playground

[Interactive Networking Fair]

Study Hall

[Speaker Series]

Pitch

[Idea Pitch Competition]

Concert

[End of Day Celebration]

Campus Tour

Now Booking Spring 2015

Book Your School

Spring 2014 was a huge success!

Playground

Study Hall

Pitch

Concert

Past Artists

Artists

Past Study Hall Speakers

Alexis Giles

Co-Founder
MOX

Avi Spielman

Partner
Summit

Brent Freeman

Co-Founder & CEO
Roozt.com

Bob Moczydiowsky

Head of Music
Twitter

Cory Levy

Co-Founder & COO
ONE

Diplo

Artist & Founder
MadDecent

Donnie Dinch

Co-Founder & CEO
WillCall

Garrett Dodge

Co-Founder & CEO
Rockbot

Jake Udell

Co-Founder
Th3rd Brain

Josh Constine

Journalist
TechCrunch

Melanie Stevenson

COO
Pencils of Promise

Miki Agrawal

Author
Do Cool Sh*t

Shaun Neff

Founder
Neff Inc.

Scott Case

Co-Founder & CEO
Main Street Genome

Scott "DJ Skee" Keeney

CEO
Skeematic LLC

Stacey Ferreria

Co-Creator
2 Billion Under 20

Taylor Conroy

Founder
Change Heroes

Tony Conrad

Co-Founder & CEO
About.me

Ed Shapiro

Partner
Reed Smith LLP

The Playground

An opportunity to network and meet the coolest brands and startups from across the nation right on your campuses.

Past Companies

Interested in joining playground for Fall 2014?

Free Swag and Prizes

Check in at the playground to win awesome prizes and swag from our prize partners

Pitch Competition

Congrats to our Spring 2014 finalists

1st Place: Clean Slate - Indiana University
2nd Place: MF Fire - University of Maryland
3rd Place: Wndrlust - University of the Pacific
: Spore - Drexel University
: USKEY - University of California, San Diego
: Live Applicant - New York University
: Code Problems - Cornell University
: BZBox - Emory University
: Carl.D Automatic Bartender - Purdue University

CleanSlate went from an idea to an actual start-up. Thanks to RECESS I now have the resources and opportunities to take the company in any direction.

Max Brickman, Founder, CleanSlate

Congrats to the minds behind USKEY!

Delara Fadavi and Danee Kenyon from UC San Diego have won a free Rootstrap for the ‘Best Idea Not Yet Built.’ They blew us away with their idea for USKey, a USB alarm that promises to be a simple, affordable way to protect your laptop. They’re the winners of the $20,000 prize pack that includes custom wireframes, UX/UI designs, market research, and much more.