Relive the 2024 Finals!

Watch the full recording below!

Congratulations to this year’s winners!

Commercial Enterprise Category

1st Place
HandSong
Lauren Deleonardis

$750

2nd Place
InSight
Audrey Karwowski

$550

T-3rd Place
Chameleon Boots
Gavin Rhodes

$400

T-3rd Place
The Ball Marker Pen
Ian Martti

$400

Social Enterprise Category

1st Place
Play It Forward
Sarah Karns

$750

T-2nd Place
SprouteRoute
Eleni Kasianides

$550

T-2nd Place
Canvas Care
Karis Mall, Julia Fisher, Kaitlyn Kuscevic

$550

T-3rd Place
First 3
Abigail Mason

$400

T-3rd Place
Social Pal
Emily Haught

$400

Special Prizes

Social Impact Prize presented by the Grove City Foundation
Play It Forward
Sarah Karns

$500

Hudson Financial Advisors Prize
InSight
Audrey Karwowski

$1000

Commercial Innovation Prize presented by the Thompson Family Fund
Chameleon Boots
Gavin Rhodes

$500

Fan Favorite Award

Chameleon Boots
Gavin Rhodes

$125

Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists!

COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE:

  • Chameleon Boots | Gavin Rhodes ’28 Entrepreneurship
  • GermGone | Kaitlyn Kuscevic ’28 Entrepreneurship
  • HandSong | Lauren Deleonardis ’28 Entrepreneurship
  • InSight | Audrey Karwowski ’26 Entrepreneurship
  • Pack Llama | Charlie Cratty ’27 Applied Science and Engineering
  • Parts TRKR | Owen Gasser ’26 Entrepreneurship
  • Sweet Shape Sheet | Elena Tylka ’28 Finance
  • The Ball Marker Pen | Ian Martti ’27 Supply Chain Management
  • Trail Beacon | Truman Eichler ’28 Entrepreneurship

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE:

  • CanvasCare | Karis Mall ’25 Entrepreneurship*
  • Crafted Connections | Leyla Zwolinski ’27 Entrepreneurship**
  • Ekklesia | Luke Huber ’28 Entrepreneurship
  • First 3 | Abigail Mason ’25 Design & Innovation
  • Kickstand | Craig Nyguist ’25 Entrepreneurship
  • Play It Forward | Sarah Karns ’28 Entrepreneurship
  • Ryppl | John Bauer ’27 Computer Science
  • Social Pal | Emily Haught ’27 Entrepreneurship
  • SproutRoute | Eleni Kasiandides ’26 Entrepreneurship + Management
  • Wild Game Givers | Cayden Testa ’26 Entrepreneurship

*Additional Team Members: Kaitlyn Kuscevic ’28 Entrepreneurship | Julia Fisher ’27 Entrepreneurship

**Additional Team Members: Ellie Gardner ’27 Entrepreneurship | Mia Campagna ’25 Marketing | Emily Haught ’27 Entrepreneurship

Thank you to our sponsors!

2024 Judges

SOCIAL + COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE JUDGES

Don Tharp

Hudson Financial Advisors, Inc.

Chris Camp

Fun Fore All

Lori Brinker

Merrill Lynch

Mitch McFeely

NexTier Bank

Dan Sumner

Westinghouse

SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE - $500

Dorene Powell

President, The Grove City Foundation

 

 

Hudson Financial Advisors Prize - $1000

Don Tharp

Hudson Financial Advisors, Inc.

 

 

Many thanks to all of the Reviewers who watched and evaluated the student pitches in Round 2!

Chadwyck Cobb
Keith Reagan
Lara Wozniak
Autumn Patterson
Heather Dickison
Chris Borders
Lesley Winfield
Brett Yusiewicz
Melissa Jacobs
Alan E Mesches
Patricia Premick
Brian Mezey
Lauren Marts
Liam Morris
Craig Creaturo
Dean Faklis
James Will
Dan Creston
Frances Baldwin
Sondra Fisher
Allyson Sveda
Thomas Smith
Collin Foster
Brad Dearborn
Eric Herstine

Drew McCandless
Steven Guo
Glenn Grossman
Alissa Sgro
Kristy Gales
Michael Smelko
Lou Palumbo
Ashley Johns
Sandra Frederick
Michael Hemmerlin
Kayla Armstrong
Stephanie Slezak
Mitchell McFeely
Heidi McDowell
Brian Dutton
Matthew Lee
Steve Wickman
Steve Solman
Sheila Weatherly
Lindy Hitzel
Carlee Webb
Sharon LeJeune
Michael Pentz
Daniel Thompson
Ruth Entwistle

Stephen Wong
Curt Given
Bob Keller
Michelle Gerwick
Darcie Herron
James Woehlke
Charles (Bob) Scott
Steve DeCaspers
Brian Coy
Haley Kahle (Nerlich)
Mark Brody
Jack Thomas
Benjamin Demers
Beth Lepore
Robin Parsons
Elisabeth O’Brien
Barbara Shultz
Steven Roman
Marjorie Loresch
Jeff Bucklew
Max Polec
Tiffany Rice
Christopher Tobias
Ann Thomas
Cameron Suorsa