Whoa Dough & Camdyn Miller Camdyn is a Hiram senior from Creston, Ohio and is set to graduate in December of 2022. She is majoring in Accounting and Financial Management with a minor in Entrepreneurship. She is a member of multiple clubs and leadership positions including Accounting Club, Hiram Women's Soccer, and the Alumni Calling Program.  Last semester, Camdyn was apart of the student ran venture class (ENTR 30600) where she and her group worked with a healthy snack bar company, Whoa Dough .  Although the class ended last semester, Camdyn decided to continue working with Whoa Dough because she had a vision of bringing the snack bar onto Hiram College. The snack bar comes in six different flavors and are sold at $2.50 per bar. She plans to sell the bars to students and get clubs and sport teams to purchase the bars in bulk for fundraisers. Camdyn is also in the process of creating a social media platform in hopes to gain customer attraction.  The plan of selli...

Student Spotlight - David Angarita David is a sophomore from Eustis, Florida and set to graduate in the spring of 2024 with a major in Biomedical Humanities and a minor in Entrepreneurship. He is currently a member of the football team and works in the athletic training center.  David decided to pick up the entrepreneurship minor because he felt that it would work well with his desired career in dentistry.  In the summer, David will be working as an intern at a dental practice in his home town of Eustis. After graduation, David will attend dental school and  plans to eventually open and run his own dentistry practice. He believes that the entrepreneurship minor will allow him to gain the necessary skills needed to successfully run his own practice in the future.  David Angarita Mentor Spotlight - Todd Loschelder Todd is the President at Schneller LLC and a member of the mentorship program at Hiram College. Todd lives in Macedonia, Ohio and gradua...

  Student Businesses A course for Hiram's Entrepreneurship program allows students to design a business from scratch and operate it for the duration of the semester. The students get to choose their business partners and then work together to write a 20+ page business plan, which they will later use as their blueprint for the business. The groups have a free choice in what kind of business they create and how they choose to operate. Once the business plan is complete, the groups are provided $200 of startup funds to help launch the business off the ground. The objective is for the businesses to turn a profit and for the students to learn the necessary skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur. Let's take a look at the group's businesses! Mad Batter Mad Batter is a business ran by JoRee Yabarra, Faith Kawamura, and Reyna Polly. Their business model is to make and sell baked goods such as brownies, cookies, cake pops, and much more. They plan to sell the baked goods thro...

  High Performance Program (HPP) The HPP is a program that consists of highly motivated students who wish to develop strong communication and leadership skills. Each student in the High Performance Program is matched with a successful entrepreneur to help mentor the student. Additionally, students in the HPP are a member of Toastmasters, a professional group focused on improving public speaking and communication.  The High Performance Program is excited to announce the addition of four new students! The newest members include: freshman Dylan Philpott, sophomore Aidan Stephens, sophomore Ethan Barnes, and sophomore Reyna Polly. With the addition of the new members, the program now holds about 15 total students.  Last week, the program had a meeting to discuss the status of the mentor-mentee relationships. Some students were assigned to different mentors that better fit their interests. For example, a student that had an int...