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Issue 92/February 13, 2015

First StartUP Weekend at AUBG Event

Story and photos by Anastasiia Hryshchenko

he first StartUP Weekend in the tions on Feb. 8 at the Andrey Delchev
history of AUBG was organized on Auditorium. The winners of the competi-
T Feb. 6 – 8 by StartUP@Blagoevgrad. tion were the projects Sound Bust (first
It was a 54-hour challenge where partic- place), DenTour (second place) and In-
ipants had an opportunity to build their ProApp (third place). They were evalu-
own businesses from scratch. Fifty-two ated as the best by the judges, and re-
participants formed 10 teams, worked ceived prizes from the sponsors of the
on their business ideas during the whole event. Sound Bust was also chosen as
weekend and gave their final presenta- the favorite project by the audience.

Entrepreneurs get to know each other and practice pitching ideas

The winners in second place work on their project of a service to facilitate dental tourism in Bulgaria In third place comes InProApp, allows managers to track company’s production

The winners, Sound Busters, developed an application to play synchronized music on many devices at the same time Organizers of the event welcome the participants

SAGE Campaign: Raising Issues News

By Gaukhar Murzagalieva $ 498

tudents Advocating Gen- was to show that opinions and be-
der Equality (SAGE) ran a liefs held by some students dem-
S campaign “Still think AUBG onstrate lack of sensitivity and
doesn’t need SAGE?” to raise knowledge regarding gender is- Low Cost
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