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Welcome to the Etownian’s new Entrepreneurship and Family Business column! For our big kick-off article, let’s discuss some opportunities to engage your inner entrepreneur right here on-campus that you might have missed out on.
The newly formed Family Business and Entrepreneurship club, formed in spring 2018, held its first semester-long competition last semester.
The competition centers around a challenge to develop a product or service that the club can use to fundraise in the future. The club offered a $250 cash prize to the winning group: whoever had the most persuasive and practical idea, judged by a panel of student officers and professors, won!
We managed to attract three groups for our first competition, two of which stuck it out until the end to compete for the most persuasive fundraising idea for the FBE club.
We want to give a shout-out to our winning group, which consisted of sophomore A.J. Calabrese, former Elizabethtown College student Danielle Hudicka and sophomore Kealey Shyk (who also, coincidentally, is our new vice president).
Also, we would like to mention our second place group that closely followed the first, consisting of senior Sara Kroboth and junior Amber Swanick. Both groups worked hard and gave solid, persuasive pitches to our panel!
Given that it was our first competition and we were experimenting with how hands-off to be, we applaud the groups that competed with passion to try new things in the spirit of entrepreneurship!
We encourage ANY member of the club to participate in the competition. Our goal is to be able to provide support and resources for ANY majors to develop a business concept, design a product and prove that it will sell on our own campus. Entrepreneurship is interdisciplinary. We want YOU to participate and engage your entrepreneurial drive!
If you’ve got the entrepreneurial itch and you’re looking for a way to scratch it, absolutely check out the Family Business and Entrepreneurship club.
We center our fall semester meetings around our competition to develop fundraising ideas and focus our spring semester meetings around turning those fundraising ideas into actual products.
If you want to be involved in this process and nurture that entrepreneurial fire, keep an eye open in Campus News for our meetings throughout the semester!
We’re an extension of associate professor of entrepreneurship and management Dr. Petru Sandu’s Family Business and Entrepreneurship Program that receives tremendous support from the High Center for Family Business.
If you grew up in family business, you are associated with one or you are interested in starting one, we also offer plenty of opportunities to learn about that.
Also keep an eye open for our Power Lunches, where we invite a number of accomplished entrepreneurs/family business owners to join us for a discussion over lunch to unpack their successes and challenges.
Thank you for reading! Stay tuned for our next article on the High Center for Family Business and the opportunities that exist for students. As an entrepreneurial person, you do not want to miss any opportunities!
