Blake Bengal’s Business Entrepreneur Students place 1st at Competition

James Hubert Blake High School business students recently participated in the MCPS-Montgomery College Entrepreneurship Competition. Student teams researched and created new start-up business plans, executive summaries and presented their proposals to a panel of Montgomery County business leaders serving as judges.

Blake Entrepreneurial students, Sam Blackwood, Jennifer Lee, Maria De-graft Johnson and Corwin Glixon placed first in the Finance category of the competition for their Bengal Landscaping business. Other Blake teams’ participating in the competition included: Anjie Martin, Robby Gilroy and Deshanea Williams in the category of Business Operations (The Bengal Café); Sean Gieser, Carlos Fuentes and Mallory Mamakos in the category of Marketing (Bengal Calculator Service); and Oliva Lawson, Lindsay Travis and Wayne Jordon in the category of Marketing (Blake Custom IPOD). Students, Sean Gieser and Carlos Fuentes also won Dell PDA's at the event.