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(Wolfville,
NS) - Two Acadia University students won the first
national Wes Nicol Entrepreneurial Award held yesterday in Ottawa.
Benedict Agbonkhese and Sophie Decker were up against competitors
from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Queen's
University, Brock University and the University of Manitoba.
“We are extremely
proud of Benedict and Sophie’s success at the Wes Nicol
Entrepreneurial Awards,” says Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb, President
and Vice-Chancellor of Acadia University, who attended the Awards.
“They are an excellent example of the entrepreneurial spirit of our
students and the strength of Acadia’s learning environment.”
Agbonkhese and Decker
impressed the Award judges with their “passion” and an unswerving
belief in their proposed business, Rhythm, a hip hop clothing and
music store.
The Wes Nicol
Entrepreneurial Award is a national non-profit program designed to
promote entrepreneurship with Canadian University students. The
program, in its eighth year, launched its first National Nicol Award
this week on March 30 & 31.
The Award was founded
in 1997 by Wes Nicol - a successful Ottawa-based business leader and
lawyer who is currently the Chairman of the Tartan Group of
Companies - with the aim of helping young Canadians develop the
entrepreneurial spirit needed to drive the Canadian economy. Nicol
made a $220,000 endowment to his alma mater, Carleton University, to
fund this successful annual event.
In 2003, Acadia
University joined the Wes Nicol Award program by holding its own
local competition and later traveling to Ottawa to take part in a
competition against Carleton.
For more information
on the Wes Nicol Award visit
http://www.nicol-award.com/
Acadia University, in
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, has long been recognized as one of Canada’s
premier undergraduate institutions. With its nationally and
internationally recognized research initiatives, small class sizes
and technology-rich teaching and learning environment, Acadia offers
students an experience that includes academic achievement combined
with personal growth and development. For more information about
Acadia, visit our website at
www.acadiau.ca
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