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Entrepreneurship Boot Camp back at UWI

For Release Upon Receipt - January 3, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – After a successful run in 2012, The University of the West Indies (UWI) in partnership with the National Entrepreneurship Development Company (NEDCO) and the Entrepreneurial Training Institute & Incubation Centre (ETIIC) has launched the second installment of the Entrepreneurship Boot Camp.

This exciting initiative, open to all recent university graduates and final-year undergraduates, gives participants an exclusive insight into the real life challenges of successful entrepreneurs. It also teaches essential business plan writing skills. The main highlights of the Boot Camp include a Final Project/Business Idea Competition where the three most innovative final projects or business ideas will be recognized and awarded; and a Business Plan Competition where the top three business plans will be selected for financial consideration of their project by NEDCO.

Ms. Zidelle Daniel’s business plan for a web-based store specialising in Carnival costumes took the $50,000 first prize in last year’s competition. The plan focused on design, production and export through WorldMas.com, a website allowing visitors to construct their own costumes by selecting just what they desire.

The 2013 edition of the boot camp is scheduled for January 14-19 with the closing ceremony on 1 February 2013 at the JFK Auditorium, UWI St. Augustine campus. Participation costs $500 and interested persons are invited to register by midday, 11 January 2013.

Additional information and registration forms are available online at http://sta.uwi.edu/ebc/.

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

 

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