SBI Best Practice Winners

1st Place

Whitney Peake: Western Kentucky University

Systems Thinking in Entrepreneurship: Changing our Thinking and Improving Buy-in for Entrepreneurship Courses

in the General Education Curriculum

1st Place

Kathleen Liang: North Carolina A&T State University, Marlene McCauley and Kyle Dell: Guilford College

Building a Colaborative Effort of Training and Education in Sustainable Food System for the 22nd Century

through Urban Agriculture Programs

2nd Place

Melanie Williams and Ray Calnan: California State University, Northridge


Connecting to the Real World: Incorporating Student Consulting Projects in Real Estate Programs

3rd Place

Debra Sea: Bemidji State University

Headwaters Film Festival Experimental Learning Course

SBDC Best Practice Winners

1st Place

Erin McGowan: Wharton School, University of Penn

Herding Consultants: Experimental Education at the Wharton SBDC

2nd Place

Suzanne Specht: Florida Gulf Coast University

FGCU SBDC Student/ Small Business Readiness Program

3rd Place

Janice Donaldson and Lakshmi Goel: University of North Florida

Best Practices in Virtual Consulting: Lessons from a Florida SBDC at the University of North Florida Partnership

3rd Place

Tony Palamone: Indiana University of Penn

Prometheus Unbound: Reigniting the Spirit of Student Engagement