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Ocean Exchange Announces Winner of 2017 BIG Pitch Collegiate Award of $10,000
The seventh annual Ocean Exchange, hosted last week in Savannah, Georgia, featured the third year of the BIG Pitch Award, sponsored by Georgia Southern University, the College of Business Administration, and the Business Innovation Group. Pipeguard Robotics, a team from MIT, won this year’s $10,000 BIG Pitch Award. The Pipeguard Robotics solution inspects water pipes […]
The Economic Development Administration Selects GS to run University Center
By Eminah Quintyne, Feature Writer Georgia Southern is now one of 13 universities in the region to house a University Center Economic Development Program (UCEDP). The UCEDP is run by the Economic Development Administration. It is a federally funded grant opportunity awarded to select institutions of higher education to facilitate and operate University Centers […]
BIG Launches Youth Entrepreneurship Program
Feature Highlight By Eminah Quintyne, Feature Writer STATESBORO — Georgia Southern University’s Business Innovation Group, in partnership with Work Source Coastal Georgia, launched a week-long summer camp called the Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) to educate youth about self-employment as a career path. Through a series of workshops and experiential learning models, participants learned how to […]
The 2015 Census Test is in full swing in your community!
The 2015 Census Test is in full swing in your community! On April 1, we celebrated Census Day. Partners across the test area hosted events, shared information with their community, and participated in social media promotion – all to continue to encourage everyone to go to census.gov/2015 to complete their test census! To all the […]