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Students to hold business plan competition

8:29 AM Tue, Jan 20, 2009 |
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The Met Center for Entrepreneurship will hold a business plan competition on Wednesday at The Met's Public Street campus in Providence.

Twenty one students presented in class and 10 plans were chosen to advance to the competition. Up to $4000 of private investment funds will be awarded.

The judges include: Professor Barrett Hazeltine, Brown University, Alan Harlem , director of Social Entrepreneurship, Howard R. Swearer, Center for Public Service, Brown University, Jamie Siminoff, entrepreneur, TJ Tetzlaff, coordinator of Youth Ventures at The Met, Chris White, founder and CEO of Gamer Graffix.

Also sitting on the panel is Jodie Woodruff, director of The Met Center for Entrepreneurship and Bill Daugherty, Entrepreneurship-360 Chairman.

The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center is a state funded public school district which serves 690 high school students in six small schools across three campuses in Rhode Island.
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