Pasta 2050 won $7,500 and first place with its pitch for pasta fortified with cricket flour. ModZero won $2,500 and second place with its pitch for a patent-pending rifle scope that can be used on multiple rifles. Pics of the winning teams, plus keynote speaker Todd Erdley, founder and CEO of Videon.
Pasta 2050’s pitch for pasta made with cricket flour won first place and $7,500 Thursday April 13 in the Ag Springboard student business pitch contest. L to R: Dr. Mark Gagnon, Entrepreneurship Coordinator, Dean Richard Roush, College of Agricultural Sciences with Pasta 2050 team: Weslie Khoo, Ph.D. student in food science, Haoshu Zhang, Ph.D. student in food science and Lauriel Stewart, M.S. student in food science. (Photo by Cameron Hart)
The Pasta 2050 team serves pasta made with cricket flour to Ag Springboard judges during their final pitch. The team: Lauriel Stewart, M.S. student in food science, Weslie Khoo, Ph.D. student in food science, and Haoshu Zhang, Ph.D. student in food science. Finalist judges pictured: Pamela Riewerts, Esq. and Dr. Dan Azzara, Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program, Alan R. Warehime Professor and Interim Head, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, College of Agricultural Sciences.(Photo by Cameron Hart)
won $2,500 and second place Thursday April 13 in the Ag Springboard student business pitch contest. L to R: Mark Gagnon, Entrepreneurship Coordinator, College of Agricultural Sciences, CAS students Sam Collins (agribusiness management major), Curtis Hershey (animal science major), CAS Dean Richard Roush, and Luke Yost (material science major). (Photo by Cameron Hart)
ModZero explains how student-inventor Luke Yost’s patent-pending device reverses the calibration process of rifle and scope, so that a single scope can be used on multiple rifles. Presenting, from left to right: Curtis Hershey (animal science major), Sam Collins (agribusiness management major) and Luke Yost (material science major). Ag Springboad final round judging panel, L to R: Bill Donley, retired CEO Tangent Rail, CAS alumnus and chairman E&I Advisory Board, Pamela Riewerts, Esq. (CAS alumnus and member E&I Advisory Board), Deanna Spaniel (Ag Springboard 2016 winner and agribusiness management student, and Dr. Dan Azzara, Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program, Alan R. Warehime Professor and Interim Head, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, College of Agricultural Sciences.(Photo by Cameron Hart)
Ag Springboard keynote speaker Todd Erdley, founder and CEO of Videon in State College, inspires student entrepreneurs to be comfortable with the risk-fail-pivot process common to entrepreneurship during the Ag Springboard Awards Banquet Thursday, April 13 at the Nittany Lion Inn. (Photo by Cameron Hart)
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