URCA Contest Winners Revealed

Ashland University Entrepreneurial Studies has announced the winners for the 2016 URCA Idea Competition.

URCA Participant Idea Contest Winners

• 1st ($500): Meghann Fitzpatrick, "Coat of Hope" to reduce toxic metal exposure in cookware
• 2nd ($300): Casandra Craig, "Preventing Cataracts"
• 3rd ($200): Hannah Thome, "Advocating for Women in Art"
• $20 AU Gift Card winners: Dane Zunich and Ed Hunt

URCA Non-Participant Idea Contest Winners

• 1st ($500): Danielle Smith, "Bye-bye Blues" blue colored lenses in glasses for cancer patients to promote calmness during treatments
• 2nd ($300): Nathaniel Minneman, "A Painter's Social Media Site" to create a painters community to discuss and promote their art inspired by Rachel Yeager's presentation
• 3rd ($200): Kiana Ziegler, "Be a Man" artwork to counter the problems of the distorted views of masculinity
• $20 AU Gift Card winners: Jim Toth and Miki Yamamura