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DECA Blazers team earns most Laker Effect Challenge prize money
April 18, 2018
The DECA Blazers team secured the most prize money during the Spring Laker Effect Challenge.
"DECA Blazers: Youth Empowerment Through Entrepreneurship & Innovation" earned $2,500 at the April 12 event. Team members are Zee Kandanga, Ben Parsell, Luciano Hernandez, and Shorouq Almallah, Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Seidman College of Business, in collaboration with Innovation Central High School.
Each team of students, faculty, and staff members worked with a community partner to pitch their idea before judges.
Other prize recipients are listed below.
• Harrison Park Uniform Project, $1,000: Steven Sholten, Liberal Studies, in collaboration with Harrison Park Elementary & Middle School
• Cultivating the Garden of Eatin’: The Greenhouse Initiative, $1,000: Kmystry Taylor-Jackson, Erika Vanderlaan, Ines Koenig, Nadia Bowman, Rachel Wayne, Belinda Fordjour, Jonathan DeVries, K’mystry Taylor-Jackson, Elaine Jarzeboski and Lori Houghton-Rahrig, Kirkhof College of Nursing, in collaboration with The Other Way Ministries