GCP, COSE Sponsor Business Plan Competition for High School Students

Thursday, May 22, 2008

CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 22, 2008 – The Scholarship of Entrepreneurial Education (SEE) announced today the winners of its Third Annual Greater Cleveland Business Plan Competition Awards Program.

Students from thirteen different Greater Cleveland high schools competed for five $500 scholarship awards sponsored by the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE), with an additional $500 award given to the teachers of each of the winning students.

The Scholarship of Entrepreneurial Education is an innovative education program designed to help develop the economic and entrepreneurial intellect of Northeast Ohio high school students. 

During the 2007/2008 school year, approximately one thousand students from sixteen high schools participated in the SEE program, with more than 700 of those students participating in the development of business plans.  The business plans entered in the Greater Cleveland Business Plan Competition represent the business plans judged among the best in local high school business plan competitions.

Additionally, a $500 scholarship award was given to the winning team of high school students who participated in a separate SEE Science and Technology Business Plan Competition.  This award was sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Partnership.

Scholarship of Entrepreneurial Engagement
2007/2008 Main Curriculum
Business Plan Competition Winners

Kart Key
Christopher Griffin and Daniel Kolliner
Hudson High School
Ms. Betty Banks-Burke, Teacher

Speedy Screening, Inc.
Brooke Armour
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center
Ms. Germaine Polensek, Teacher

CupTalk.net
Michael Laheta
Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School
Mr. Dathan Cole, Teacher

Green-Cert Solutions
Ted Rader
Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School
Mr. Dathan Cole, Teacher

Dynasty Fitness
Doug Morchak
Parma Normandy High School
Ms. Sarah Parker, Teacher

Scholarship Awards Sponsored by the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE)

Scholarship of Entrepreneurial Engagement
 2008 Science & Technology Forum
Business Plan Competition Winners

The Greater Cleveland Partnership winning business plan is:

Identifind by Nick Buhler, Ashley DiLorenzo and Anastassia Radeva of Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School
Identifind plans to work with the US military to use nanotechnology procedures to manipulate atoms to encode sensitive information on atom-coded dogtags and other identifiers by encoding specially designed flakes of gold or titanium in a modified Braille method.

Other competition entrants:
 
AIMed: Accessible Integrated Medical Database by Alexander Denker, Ming Yau and Jun Huang of Solon High School
The purpose of AIMed, Accessible Integrated Medical Database, is to centralize medical networks of hospitals and medical facilities throughout the United States so as to create an easily accessible database of information and resources for doctors and patients.
 
American Heatings by Will Donohue, Kevin Hanigan, Mike Laheta, Dan Rose, Laura Sanders, and Melanie Smith of Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School
American Heatings designs, plans and installs geothermal heating units in mass housing units and office buildings as an alternative energy source to lessen the demand on fossil fuels.
 
Nanocade by Nycole Cox, Michael Minite, Nathan Sender and Mitchell Romito of Aurora High School
Nanocade is a substance like concrete that utilizes micro-carbon tube technology that is positioned as a bed in the divider of highways to prevent vehicle accidents.  The substance would have great horizontal integrity without much vertical strength thus causing vehicles to sink into the substance rather than cross the divider into oncoming traffic.
 
The Pool Palm by Julia Cipollone, John D'Angelo, Courtney Drescher, Kim Ksiazka, Antonia Palmiero and Ryan Schuerger of North Royalton High School
The Pool Palm is a new way to heat a pool that is not only cost-efficient, but energy and environment friendly as well.  Designed like a decorative, life size palm tree, the leaves of the tree would contain a series of bifacial, photovoltaic solar panels that would generate the energy needed to run the pool heater and filter.

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