{"id":9978,"date":"2017-04-10T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2017-05-02T15:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T19:08:32","slug":"li-business-competition-yields-two-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2017\/04\/10\/li-business-competition-yields-two-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"LI Business Competition Yields Two Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five FSC students were winners in last week&#8217;s LI Business Plan Competition, and now they are headed to Albany for the state championship.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9992\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9992\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9992 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/04\/william-turano-business-competition-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Turano makes his pitch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They are among seven winning teams who will be joined in the finals by groups from<br \/>\nStony Brook and Hofstra. An FSC team was one of only two to win a $10,000 grand prize. It is the first time for FSC to win the grand prize at the regional level.<\/p>\n<p>Top winner was Stack House, in the Product category. The idea is to develop and market an educational coding toy. The product, in the form of doll houses or\u00a0castles, is intended to spark young girls\u2019 interest in STEM. The team &#8211; all Computer Engineering Technology majors &#8211; are Montana Musillo, Tahamina Akter, Constance Cooper and Nikola Georgiev.<\/p>\n<p>Third prize, which means a trip to Albany, went to William Turano, a Business Management major. His service would provide a unique hydroponic agricultural system that is versatile, mobile, and sustainable, to meet the consumer demand for farm-to-table. The system grows food responsibly and sustainably to reduce the environmental impact of food production.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five FSC students were winners in last week&#8217;s LI Business Plan Competition, and now they are headed to Albany for the state championship. They are among seven winning teams who will be joined in the finals by groups from Stony Brook and Hofstra. An FSC team was one of only two to win a $10,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10537,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions\/10537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}