Kentucky man takes home top honor at SOAR’s Startup Appalachia Pitch Competition

HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) – One enterprise proprietor with places in Central Kentucky walked away with $10,000 following a latest competitors for grant funding at Hazard Group and Techincal Faculty.

Dakota Hoskins was introduced Tuesday because the winner of the Shaping Our Appalachian Area, or SOAR, Startup Appalachia Pitch Competitors. The occasion, held June twenty third, on the First Federal Middle on HCTC’s campus, attracted a complete of 39 candidates from 24 counties in Appalachia.

Hoskins, the grand prize winner, was the primary of six finalists to take the stage through the pitch competitors. A automobile wash proprietor, he developed a singular and reasonably priced barcode system for operators to implement to extend income and advertising attain.

Reimagines, a customized design and print store in Pulaski County owned by Elizabeth Schroer, took house second place, which was a $3,500 money prize. Adair County native and dentist Dr. Kyle Mann, took house third place honors for his creation UpScore Take a look at Prep, an interactive and reasonably priced ACT test-prep platform. That got here with a $1,500 prize.

You may learn extra concerning the different finalists right here.

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