From game-based e-learning courses to handcrafted outdoor tools to portable devices protecting ATM PIN numbers, Penn State Great Valley's first-ever Student Pitch Day drew a wide variety of student entrepreneurs. Each shared their ideas with faculty and area professionals and competed for cash prizes.
Reed, Wertz and Roadman, Inc., an independent insurance company based in Pennsylvania, recently sponsored Penn State Great Valley’s sixth annual golf outing. Held on Tuesday, May 16 at the Applecross Country Club in Downingtown, the event raised money for student scholarships.
Left to right: Marybeth DiVincenzo, Neil Sharkey, James Nemes, Nena Ellis Koschny, Doug Schumer, and Leo Daiuto, stand in front of the REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship.
Left to right: Marybeth DiVincenzo, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the Chester County Economic Development Council, Neil Sharkey, Vice President for Research at Penn State, and James Names, Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer of Penn State Great Valley ceremoniously cut the ribbon to inaugurate the REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship.
Penn State Great Valley celebrated its REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship on Monday, May 22, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The center aims to engage and encourage Penn State students, faculty and community members to generate innovative, commercially-viable solutions to address existing and emerging business and social needs.
As a business insight and analytics manager at a pharmaceutical company, Jackie Markle examines what products drive sales. A recent data mining course changed her sales strategy at work to help her company increase distribution and profit in a cost-effective manner.
A data mining course helped Jackie Markle, a first-generation college graduate and data analytics student, build her confidence and change the sales strategy at her workplace.