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The student startup, Benegraft (team pictured above), was a winner at the 2020 Business Plan Competition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On April 17, 248 students pitched their business ideas to a panel of judges that included JHU alumni and industry leaders, as they competed for $36,000 in prizes. The online event was the 2020 version of Johns Hopkins University\u2019s annual Business Plan Competition<\/a>, hosted by WSE\u2019s Center for Leadership Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trevor Mackesey<\/a>, a lecturer in the CLE, who also serves as the competition\u2019s director, was encouraged by students\u2019 enthusiasm when he asked if they wanted to proceed with the event in the remote format necessitated by the university\u2019s response to COVID-19. Forty-five teams said \u201cyes.\u201d \u201cWe need people from different disciplines coming together to identify problems and come up with new solutions, and that\u2019s exactly what the business plan competition does,\u201d Mackesey says.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s top prizewinner in the general enterprise and technology ventures category went to The New Norm, a WSE student-led team that upcycles red and blue plastic Solo cups into filaments that can be used to make clothing. In the medical technology and life sciences category, Benegraft, a medical device company that has developed a technique for dicing cartilage, took first place.<\/p>\n

The other first place in medical technology and life sciences went to VestiTech, and Oculy won for social enterprise ventures.<\/p>\n

In his keynote speech, Derek Lewis \u201997 (BME), the vice president of operations, research, and development for Checkpoint Surgical, told the students that their passion, willingness to take on big, complicated problems, and ability to work and collaborate remotely are strengths that will serve them will as they pursue their ventures and professional goals.<\/p>\n

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