February 16, 2012 | Business Plan Winners, 2012
Student Business Plan Competition Finalists
The Morehouse College Entrepreneurship center sponsors a business plan competition for college students, which is held during Expo 2012. This year’s competition focuses on the creation of applications “Apps” for smart phones.
Students of all majors were encouraged to submit a concise and clear document outlining an “App” idea to solve an unmeet need. As a note, technical creation of the actual working App was not required. Submission deadline was December 16, 2011.
Now that the first judging around is over, here are the top 5 finalists, that will be presenting their App at Expo 2012 on February 15 at 2:30p ...
Auc Factory
Rae'Johne Smith, Spelman College
An application that provides up-to-date and reliable information on the whereabouts of student shuttles on college campuses.
FitPro
Ki B Lim, Stanford University
Rhonda Paley, Texas Southern University
An application that teaches users how to achieve the equivalent of a one-mile run in 10 minutes while working within a 36x36 inch space.
TwitChatTM
Marcus Thomas, Jourdon Johnson, & Aaron Ruffin, Georgia Institute of Technology
An application that allows Twitter users to send and receive private, instant messages and media without having to exchange information such as phone numbers or email addresses.
Scout Watch
Markeisha Cassidy-Dawson, Georgia State University
An application that connects high school student athletes nationwide with scouts and recruiters from collegiate athletic programs.
Word Wise
Malcolm Parrish, Brantly Fulton, & Elijah Martin, Morehouse College
An application that helps high school students preparing to take the SAT solve the problem of vocabulary retention.