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Green Team Wins Third Annual Teen Business Competition
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
Last weekend, Computer Mentors Group (CMG) hosted its Third Annual Teen Business Competition. The event featured 20 inspiring teens, eager to learn just what it is to be an entrepreneur, by developing their business ideas into a competition.
The event took place at Hillsborough Community College, Ybor campus. The teens’ weekend consisted of early mornings and long days preparing their ideas for the Big “Pitch Challenge” and to be crowned as the 2016 Teen Business Competition Win-
ner.
Throughout the weekend
the teens participated in sev- eral coaching sessions with local professionals that gave them skills and concepts to explore all areas needed to successfully pitch their busi- ness ideas to a panel of judges known as the “Angel In- vestors.”
The Angel Investors for the 2016 Teen Business Com- petition (TBC) panel were se- rial entrepreneur Tim Horton, Robert Francis, of Milford Communications Partners, LLC; David Bellini, founder of Connect- Wise IT, and Betty Reed, Candidate for Florida Senate,
District 19.
The competition consisted
of four teams: Team Blue, Team Green, Team Red, and Team Yellow. The event was sponsored by Presenting Sponsor Connectwise, For- tune 50 Sponsor Suncoast Credit Union, and Food Sponsor JPMorgan Chase.
The overall winner of the competition was the Green Team who managed to ex- hibit the best outlook of col- laboration, critical thinking, problem solving, and concept modeling averages through- out the weekend and became the 2016 Teen Business Com- petition overall winners. Team Green consisted of
Members of the Green Team who won in the best overall cate- gory of the Third Annual Teen Business Competition shown with Ms. Ebone Cruz are: Kimberly Do, Elois Hannah, Daniel Smithen, Kennedy Warren, and Aaron Webb.
Kimberly Do, Elois Han- nah, Daniel Smithen, Kennedy Warren, and Aaron Webb.
Team Red won the “Pitch Challenge” with a business idea of the Compleat ME App. The idea of the App is to assist its users with getting dressed without the hassle of ever looking in your closet. Team Red consisted of Pierre Alsint, Karrington Hick- man, Calvin McCLarin, Belle Santo, and Teshaara Smith.
Ms. Ebone Cruz served as the Mistress of Ceremony
for the final “The Pitch” Chal- lenge.
The event brought collab- oration not only for the teens, but for parents and specta- tors. For more information or to sign your child up in one of CMG programs, visit the Computer Mentors website at www.computermentors.org.
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