by Monica Smith April 15, 2021 .
RALEIGH – The Lulu eGames, NC State’s largest annual startup competition, draws the attention of student and faculty entrepreneurs from across campus. This year 160+ entrepreneurs entered the competition to battle for over $100,000 in award money. A group of volunteer judges hand-picked 19 finalist teams to advance to the second round of our highly competitive startup competition. For the first time since its inception in 2009, ten final round winners were announced virtually via a Facebook Live video stream on April 8, 2020. Student teams walked away with anywhere from $2,000 to $15,000.
The competition is composed of two tracks – the student track, where solo-preneurs or teams can compete, and the Daugherty Endowment track, available to university spin-out companies. Student teams can compete across five different categories: Arts Venture, IBM Built on Cloud, Social and Environmental Impact, Design and Prototype and New Venture.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 10, 2021) “It takes a village” is a common saying, but in the case of a natural disaster, it can take an entire state. University of Kentucky students and staff stepped up when they recognized the need to help their fellow Kentuckians who are victims of the recent Eastern Kentucky floods.
A group of 19 UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment students from the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity spent March 5-6 volunteering in Beattyville and Manchester. They helped businesses and individuals like Robbie McKinney clean up from the flood.
McKinney is the Lee County Farm Bureau agent and has an office on Main Street. At the height of the flood, his office was filled with 4.5 to 5 feet of water and he lost nearly everything. Fraternity members helped McKinney remove furniture, cabinets and flooring. Their work will help him begin the rebuilding process sooner.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 4, 2021) The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service is collecting items and providing relief efforts for Kentuckians impacted by recent floods.
The Wolfe County Extension office is serving as the collection site for Eastern Kentucky counties impacted by flooding. On campus, extension will collect supplies at the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s Agriculture Distribution Center.
“Some of the poorest areas of our communities were hit the hardest and face significant cleanup challenges,” said Ty Back, area extension director for several of the hardest hit counties. “It’s important that extension can pull together its extensive statewide resources to help these communities recover.”