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Blake High School Entrepreneur Students Place 1 st at Competition
James Hubert Blake High School business students placed in all three categories at the MCPS-Montgomery College 4th annual Entrepreneurship Competition April 21 st. Student teams researched and created new start-up business plans and executive summaries and presented their proposals to a panel of Montgomery County business leaders serving as judges.
Blake Entrepreneurial students, Jordi Kaufman, Mark Dudley, Jonathan League and Graham Berger placed first in the Operations category of the competition for their Genius 4.0 – an internet Café targeted toward teenagers and college students. The team of Keturah Gouldbourne, Diamond Locklear and Elena McEachern placed third in the Marketing category for project Zyhaire – a beauty salon with differentiation of Marketing. Placing third in the Finance category students Anjalee Martin and Jeff Wellman developed a business plan for Quick Connect Sports – a partnership with the Washington Mystics that creates a web portal targeting young women who have an interest in women’s basketball. These two Blake students have been invited by the COO of the Mystics, Curtis Symonds to present their Business Plan to his staff in May.
Mr. Fred Katz is the entrepreneurship teacher at Blake High School.