Sixteen of our students traveled to Atlanta to participate in the International meeting of Delta Epsilon Chi, which is the collegiate division of DECA.
Over 1500 college students participate in various business competitions.
58 teams with over 100 students participated in the Entrepreneurial Challenge — one of the featured events of this conference. It is a three day event in which students (in teams of 1-3) come up with a business idea for a specific industry or trend (this year it had to be a “green” business). They research the idea and make a pitch for a business proposal to a series of business executives who serve as judges. The finalists all had to present to a panel of five executives on Tuesday morning.
Belmont had 5 of the final 10 teams!
1st place — Belmont — Kevin Jennings (Entrepreneurship and Music Business
major — from Nashville) and Sally want to buy topamax Munns (Entrepreneurship major from
Brentwood) Winning Team members share $5,000 Don DeBolt Scholarship and up to $3,000 in travel awards to attend the International Franchise Association Annual Meeting to present their winning proposal. They also got $10,000 in seed money from ideablob.com.
2nd place — Belmont — Noah Curran (International Business/Entrepreneurship
concentration) and Julie Zaloba (Entrepreneurship major) — $3,000 prize
In addition to being on the first place team in the Entrepreneurial Challenge, Kevin Jennings also took 1st place in the Business Plan Competition for his business soundAFX, which he currently runs in our hatchery program.
The advisers for the Belmont team in this competition included Becky Gann (program coordinator for our Center for Entrepreneurship), Robert Lambert (professor of Marketing), Jose Gonzalez (Instructor of Entrepreneurship), and me.
I will post a few pictures from the event as soon as I get them from our team members.
Go Belmont!!
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