{"id":1406,"date":"2023-05-05T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2023-07-13T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:45:46","slug":"winners-announced-for-ubalts-rise-to-the-challenge-business-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2023\/05\/05\/winners-announced-for-ubalts-rise-to-the-challenge-business-pitch-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners Announced for UBalt&#8217;s &#8216;Rise to the Challenge&#8217; Business Pitch Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1407\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2023\/05\/05\/winners-announced-for-ubalts-rise-to-the-challenge-business-pitch-competition\/600x400-rise-challenge-2023-winners\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1407\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-image-1407 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/600x400-rise-challenge-2023-winners-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2023 Rise to the Challenge Business Pitch Competition winners<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Five winners, including undergraduate students and recent alumni, emerged from The University of Baltimore&#8217;s 2023 &#8220;Rise to the Challenge&#8221;\u00a0Business Pitch Competition held on April 27 in the William H. Thumel Sr., Business Center, home of the Merrick School of Business. Each winner received\u00a0their own &#8220;big check,&#8221;\u00a0plus a portion of the nearly $30,000 in prize money. The event, now in its 11th year, is supported annually by the University&#8217;s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to showcase many of the UBalt community&#8217;s most talented and driven entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/news\/news-releases.cfm?id=4141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View the news release<\/a><\/u> to learn more about all the winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five winners, including undergraduate students and recent alumni, emerged from The University of Baltimore&#8217;s 2023 &#8220;Rise to the Challenge&#8221;\u00a0Business Pitch Competition held on April 27 in the William H. Thumel Sr., Business Center, home of the Merrick School of Business. Each winner received\u00a0their own &#8220;big check,&#8221;\u00a0plus a portion of the nearly $30,000 in prize money.<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2023\/05\/05\/winners-announced-for-ubalts-rise-to-the-challenge-business-pitch-competition\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[57,245,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}