Sarah Wall takes home the prize

She gained $1,000 at the second annual Rise Collegiate Business enterprise Approach Competition hosted on March 23 at Hampden-Sydney College’s Crawley Forum in Farmville.

She competed with 7 groups that totaled 12 scholar-business owners who presented their business enterprise pitches to a panel of judges and ann viewers. The students came from P&HCC, Averett College, Hampden-Sydney Higher education and Longwood University.

Her company approach was for an eco-welcoming products retail outlet in Martinsville termed Swam. She strategies to use the prize income to help start the business enterprise, a release states.

Wall designs to start by acquiring the Swam brand name with booth activities and positioning products and solutions in other outlets these types of as Built In Martinsville right before growing into a brick-and-mortar keep front.

She was one of a few teams to get a cash prize. Next place was Dusten Wooden of Chatham, who received $750.

The Rise Collegiate Small business Strategy Opposition is open to all Southern Virginia school learners.

To take part, college students kind teams, recognize the challenge they want to resolve and attain palms-on entrepreneurial experience by interviewing possible clients, establishing their company program.

Other opponents had been: Jack Whelahan of Hampden-Sydney College Caitlin Wiley, Jacob Poteat and John Eddy of Longwood College Olivia Hopkins of Longwood University and Christopher Byrd, Andrew Rabon, Blake Frost and Brayden Good of Averett University.

The decide panel was: Anne Tyler Paulek of the Farmville Area Chamber of Commerce and Large Bridge Stables, Ilsa Loeser of Letterpress Communications, Logan Ryan of Long & Foster Actual Estate, Steve Creedle of Benchmark Local community Financial institution and Varun Sadana of The Launch Position.