There would also be an optional trade show competition open to the public. Overall, $36,000 in total prizes would have been awarded to the top young entrepreneurs. Each division has a first place prize of $4,000. Students were to compete in one of four divisions. The businesses who would have advanced to the KEC State Championship would be judged on their executive summaries and several 15-minute mock board room sessions. Fifteen wildcard applicants were to be selected today by having their executive summary win out in a competitive qualifying round. Students won a berth at the state championship by winning a sanctioned YEC Series competition. The competition would have been held on April 28 at Kansas State University, hosted by the Kansas State University Center for the Advancement of Entrepreneurship and sponsored by the Kansas Masonic Foundation. The 64-community E-Community Partnership is dedicated to increasing entrepreneurial activity and developing self-sustaining ecosystems favorable to long-term entrepreneurial growth.Įach winning business concept would have earned the chance to participate at the 2020 Kansas Entrepreneurship Challenge(KEC) State Championship, however, the KEC was canceled due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and guidelines put out by the CDC. The YEC Series was created in 2013 to expose Kansas middle school and high school students to entrepreneurship and help them to begin thinking entrepreneurially. The 2019-2020 academic year marks the seventh annual YEC series coordinated by NetWork Kansas and the E-Community Partnership. Students’ work is judged by local entrepreneurs, public sector partners, teachers, and other community members. Students work in teams or individually to represent a business concept and compete for awards and prizes. Local YEC Series events require students to prepare an executive summary and a four-minute presentation, and often feature interactive trade shows or elevator pitches. The YEC Series consists of local-level youth entrepreneurship competitions hosted by volunteers. WICHITA - NetWork Kansas’ Entrepreneurship (E-) Community Partnership has announced the conclusion of the 2019-2020 Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (YEC) Series.ĭuring the 2019-2020 academic year, 730 students from 46 Kansas communities participated in 41 local entrepreneurship competitions. McPherson, Kansas 67460.Participants and others at the Neosho County event last fall. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Reno County and they can be sent to Glidden-Ediger Funeral Home 222 W. Ben Shockey officiating.Ī private family burial will be at Gorham Cemetery, Gorham, Kansas at a later date Joseph’s Catholic Church, McPherson, Kansas, with Fr. Mary was preceded in death by her parents her brother Ronald Copp and sisters Carolyn Copp and Jannette Gabel.Ī Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, Octoat 1:00 p.m. She is survived by her partner Bill Green, Nickerson, Kansas her daughter Danielle Walker, of Wichita, Kansas her siblings Leroy Copp and his wife Rita, of Wichita, Kansas James Copp, of Beloit, Kansas Dennis Copp and his wife Pamela, of Wichita, Kansas Judy Dinges and her husband Bill, of Silver Springs, Maryland Diane Copp and her significant other Rudy, of Alamo, California and Michael Copp and his significant other Tammy Raddatz, of McPherson, Kansas. Mary enjoyed her cats, spending time with her family and enjoyed life to the fullest. 308 and for Brookdale Nursing Home, Hutchinson, Kansas. Through the years Mary worked as a cosmetologist for Snip and Clip in Hays, Kansas, worked in food service for U.S.D. Mary then attended Sidney’s Cosmetology School, Hutchinson, Kansas. Mary attended Gorham Elementary School and Gorham High School, Gorham, Kansas and graduated in 1976. Mary was born in Hays, Kansas on September 3, 1957, a daughter of Lidwina (Pfannenstiel) and Lucas J. Mary Agnes Copp, 61, of Nickerson, Kansas, passed away at 12:45 p.m., Saturday, October 6th, 2018 while in the company of family members, at Hospice House, Hutchinson.
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