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Honor Roll
Village Of Excellence
DANIEL A. HOLTON, II
HONOR: Principal’s Honor Roll and Citizenship PARENTS: Daniel Holton and Brittney Wiggs GRANDPARENTS: Iris B. Holton; Michael and Richie Wiggs, and Rev. Eric and Lathorn Gallmon
GREAT GRANDPARENTS:
Ann Drew; Alice Roberts; Earl Adams; Pearl Adams; and the late James Wiggs
HOBBIES: Computer Games, Playing Football, and Playing Basketball
KE’LEIGH L. A. D. HOLTON
HONOR: Honor Roll and Citi- zenship
PARENTS: Daniel Holton and Brittney Wiggs GRANDPARENTS: Iris B. Holton; Michael and Richie Wiggs, and Rev. Eric and Lathorn Gallmon
GREAT GRANDPARENTS:
Ann Drew; Alice Roberts; Earl Adams; Pearl Adams; and the late James Wiggs
HOBBIES: Video Games, Playing with her toys; and Shopping
Walker IB Middle School
ZY’KIAH SMITH
HONORS: High Honor Roll and Citizenship
PARENTS: Condria Briggs GRANDPARENTS: Willie and Helen Simmons and Carolyn Riggins
HOBBIES: Animals, Reading, and Spending time with sister, Nyiah Briggs
CHURCH: Bethany Taberna- cle
Williams Middle School
ADAM ANDREWS HONOR: High Honor Roll
PARENTS: Mr. and Mrs. C. Blythe (Sylvia) Andrews, III GRANDPARENTS: Mrs. Glo- ria Andrews and the late Mr. C. Blythe Andrews, Jr.; and Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin (Jeanette) Berry
HOBBIES: Playing Basket- ball, Video Games, and Golf CHURCH: First Baptist Church of Temple Terrace
WILLIAM ANDREWS, IV
HONOR: High Honor Roll PARENTS: Mr. and Mrs. C. Blythe (Sylvia) Andrews, III GRANDPARENTS: Mrs. Glo- ria Andrews and the late Mr. C. Blythe Andrews, Jr.; and Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin (Jeanette) Berry
HOBBIES: Playing Basket- ball, Video Games, and Golf CHURCH: First Baptist Church of Temple Terrace
Woodmont Charter School
HENRY M. CROCKETT, V
HONOR: Honor Roll PARENT: Teria Skinner GRANDPARENTS:
Turner, Cedric and Marcia Taylor
GODPARENTS: Keith and Meesha, Jackie, Toynetta, Shay and Sean, Ronika and Perry
HOBBIES: Soccer, Track, Football, Video Games
Young Middle Magnet School
SEAN ROBERTS HONOR: High Honor Roll
PARENTS: Eric Roberts and Jenell Copeland (deceased) GRANDPARENTS: Peggy Hill, Albert Roberts, and Mr. and Mrs. Copeland HOBBIES: Track, X-Box, and TV
CHURCH: St. Matthew of Brandon
Local
Students Win 2015 Teen Business Challenge
Members of the winning “Green Team” shown from left to right are: Joshua Hamilton, Juan Bezanilla, Brinyae Dukes (front), Evan Ellis, and David Nunez.
Tonia
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
Recently, twenty teenagers had the opportunity to partici- pate in the 2015 Teen Business Challenge. This was the Second Annual event sponsored by Computer Mentors. It was held at the Microsoft Corporation in Tampa.
The event took place Febru- ary 20th through February 22nd, in the form of a training contest for entrepreneurship. It taught the teenagers the process of building business ideas into vi- able products for the market.
The event kicked off Friday afternoon with challenges that continued on Saturday and Sunday. The teenagers were placed into four (4) teams of five (5) players each. Each team was designated by a T- shirt with one of the primary colors. There were five chal- lenges that the teams com- peted in.
The first round was the
“Big Idea Challenge,”
which occurred directly after a creative thinking workshop. Round two was the “Trea- sure Map Challenge,” which followed the Business Model Generation workshop on Saturday morning.
The third round consisted of the “Show Me the Money Challenge,” which occurred late Saturday afternoon, after the Marketing and Customer Service workshop.
The fourth round was the “MVP Challenge” (Mini- mum Viable Product) which followed a Prototyping work- shop. And finally, the fifth round was the culminating event “The Pitch Chal- lenge,” which followed after the pitch deck workshop. The “Pitch Challenge” was hosted in the presence of an audience of about 100 people.
In the final analysis, the “The Green Team” which con- sisted of Brinyae Dukes, David Nunez, Evan Ellis, Joshua Hamilton, and Juan Bezanilla was the over- all winners.
Team member David Nunez, said, “The Teen Busi- ness Challenge was a great ex- perience. It helped me see
inside the creative world that businesses work in, and as a person who usually prefers to work without a team, it showed me how advantageous and how much more one can accom- plish when they collaborate with others.”
The final pitch challenge was evaluated by an astute panel of judges, that included Chris Arnoldi, President of Royal Road Group, and Founder of Uhsome and CoWorkTampa; Jim Gossett, C.O.O. and C.I.O. at SCTC, and is a member of the USF Con- nect Council of Professionals, and a Tampa Bay WaVe men- tor; Dr. Andrew Gold, Ph.D., Business Administra- tion Professor at Hillsborough Community College, and the co-founder of Tampa Bay Edu- cation Entrepreneurs; and David Bellini, an entrepre- neur and co-founder and C.O.O. of ConnectWise.
Each of the 20 teens who participated not only had a great experience, but they were also rewarded with brand new iPad Mini tablet computers. The tablets were made avail- able by a generous donation from ConnectWise, this year’s title sponsor.
ConnectWise also sup- ported the event with coaches and volunteers that cheered the youth through the different challenges.
“It’s inspiring to see a com- munity of like-minded and cre- ative teens come together with passion for entrepreneurship and technology. The Teen Business Challenge has created a platform for today’s youth to kick-start their careers in tech- nology and plan for the future now,” Bellini said.
Ralph Smith, founder of Computer Mentors said the or- ganization hosts the Teen Busi- ness Challenge annually as a way to promote the creative culture of the Tampa Bay area. Part of the mission of the or- ganization is bridging the tech- nology divide and this event helps connect kids of all back- grounds, and especially under- represented populations, to that creative culture and the people involved.
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