Patricia Rogers, first 13D Student Entrepreneurship Competition winner, will discuss the environmental impact of her egg farm. The town hall meeting will take place at UVI-Small Business Development Center at Nisky Center at 6:00 p.m. on Sept 17, 2012.
Ms Pat Rogers, the winner of a $30,000 Small Business startup competition, gave a presentation about her Virgin Egg Farm using solar power and other new technologies.
St. Croix Source, by Laurel Kaufmann — May 4, 2012
Sound of $30K Is Music to Ears of UVI
[Pioneering] Entrepreneur
“Cha-ching!” chanted student Patricia Rogers as she took the $30,000 grand prize Friday in the final round of the University of the Virgin Islands' 13D Student Entrepreneurship Competition.
Rogers and her fellow competitors battled for $30,000, $20,000, and $10,000 to invest in their business models. Rogers came out on top with a proposal to establish a large egg farm, Heba Abdallah and Ghadeer Taha won second place with a lab equipment rental and leasing idea, and Shoshana Pemberton took third place with dreams of a roller skate rink.
“We were looking for a business that was real, that would actually launch, and then have the potential to be a success and grow,” said panelist Alex Randall, a professor of communication at UVI.