{"id":404,"date":"2018-10-25T14:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/?p=404"},"modified":"2018-11-12T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T21:00:57","slug":"this-year-its-all-women-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2018\/10\/25\/this-year-its-all-women-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year, It&#8217;s All Women Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Finalists Announced for 2018 Attman Competition<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/1080x1080-female-trinad-mba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-405 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/1080x1080-female-trinad-mba-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Female walking\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/1080x1080-female-trinad-mba-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/1080x1080-female-trinad-mba-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/1080x1080-female-trinad-mba-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/1080x1080-female-trinad-mba-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/1080x1080-female-trinad-mba.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The 2018 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/merrick\/centers\/center-for-entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/competitions\/attman-business-prize\/index.cfm\">Leonard and Phyllis Attman Competitive Business Prize Competition<\/a>, sponsored by UB&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/merrick\/centers\/center-for-entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/\">Center for Entrepreneurship and\u00a0Innovation<\/a>, is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 13, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center (home of the Merrick School of Business), 11 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to the public; registration is required on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/attman-competition-tickets-51528183183?aff=eac2\">Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year&#8217;s finalists are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brianna Billups<\/strong>, B.S. &#8217;18, will pitch\u00a0Fully Grown, which is on a mission to eradicate food deserts by growing our communities the way we grow our food:\u00a0fully and sustainably.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Willow Hendershot<\/strong>, B.S. &#8217;20, represents\u00a0Prevail, the first in a series of video games that focus on mental illness awareness. In Prevail, players progress through the story of someone struggling with PTSD.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kareema McLendon<\/strong>, B.S. &#8217;20,\u00a0whose eponymous fashion startup is a wholesale bridal firm focused on designing, manufacturing and selling bridal gowns to women aged 30-50.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crystal Santiful<\/strong>, B.A. &#8217;19, will pitch Chrystal Tutu Paradise, a business that is dedicated to creating custom fashion designs for any occasion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mikita Thompson<\/strong>, B.S. &#8217;20, founder of The Party Room, a multi-functional event hall that is fully equipped with everything customers need to host social events.<\/li>\n<li class=\"last-child\"><strong>Brittany Whitby<\/strong>, B.S. &#8217;18, MBA &#8217;20,\u00a0and <strong>Demi Abromaitis<\/strong>, BS &#8217;17, who teamed up to create Charmony Naturals, which offers a mix of science, joy, and passion to create a unique line of hemp cosmetics for a diversity of needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/news\/news-releases.cfm?id=3197\">Full News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finalists Announced for 2018 Attman Competition The 2018 \u00a0Leonard and Phyllis Attman Competitive Business Prize Competition, sponsored by UB&#8217;s Center for Entrepreneurship and\u00a0Innovation, is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 13, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center (home of the Merrick School of Business), 11 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2018\/10\/25\/this-year-its-all-women-entrepreneurs\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[62,72,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}