Enactus Windsor sweeps regional exposition

Teams from the Odette School of Business swept through student competition at the Enactus Regional Exposition, March 11 in Mississauga, securing a spot in May’s national exposition in every category.

Members of the student entrepreneur advocacy group’s Windsor chapter won plaudits in four team challenges:

  • The Cookstart Inc. consulting program, which helps entrepreneurs build their own food businesses, topped the TD Entrepreneurship Challenge.
  • CityThrive, which teaches valuable financial literacy and business skills to individuals on social assistance, won the Capital One Financial Literacy Challenge.
  • The curriculum-based program, Youthrive 2.0, which seeks to empower high school students by teaching them business, presentation, and entrepreneurship skills, secured honours in the Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge.
  • An eight-week program encouraging grade 7 students to create their own environmentally-oriented businesses won the Scotiabank Eco-Living Green Challenge.

The UWindsor teams—comprising 50 students from the Odette School of Business—beat out 70 others from schools across the region to represent Central Canada at the national exposition, May 2 to 4 in Toronto.

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