Winning team and judges from Hult Prize Competition Qualifier: Chris Thomas, a judge; Tree-Spun team members Nicole Byrnes, Rob Goldblatt and Paul Sausville; Caeresa Richardson, a judge; Cjala Surratt, a judge; and organizer Sasha Temerte
, a student in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and co-founder of Tree-Spun, and his teammates, Paul Sausville and Nicole Byrnes, both from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, won the 2023 黑料不打烊 Libraries鈥� Blackstone LaunchPad Hult Prize campus qualifier competition. The competition was held at the LaunchPad in Bird Library on Feb. 17.
聽is a prestigious global business competition started by a partnership between the聽聽and the聽. The competition challenges students to present products, services, technologies and other solutions to societal problems.
This year鈥檚 challenge is Redesigning Fashion, which asks student teams to pitch a for-profit business venture in the fashion/clothing industry that positively impacts people and the planet.
Rabia Razzaq 鈥�23, a student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and founder of Re-mend, and Sahitya Sampath 鈥�25, a student in the Whitman School and founder of Block Threads, were runners-up.
Winners of the campus competition will advance to a regional competition for a chance to compete with international student teams for the opportunity to work with world class mentors and pitch at the United Nations for $1 million in investment. Past 黑料不打烊 winners have gone on to compete in Toronto, Boston and San Francisco.
This year鈥檚 Hult Prize Competition qualifier was organized by Alesandra (Sasha) Temerte 鈥�23, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a LaunchPad Global Fellow.
