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Molly Grace is a student athlete on the [https://oregontechowls.com/sports/womens-volleyball Womens Volleyball] team at OIT majoring in business Marketing. During her freshman season she helped lead her team to their first national tournament appearance in school history. She also helped create a marketing strategy for the team to host a record-breaking number of 1,151 fans in the stands at a home match. She now holds the single match kill record in the program scoring 29 kills in a regular season match against Bushnell University. Outside of being a full-time student athlete she works as a marketing intern at a local company, [https://smithbates.com/ SmithBates Marcomm Solutions] , and has assisted on many integrated marketing campaigns within the community , most notably the [https://www.healthyklamath.com/ Healthy Klamath] Escape from Vape campaign. Molly is the co-founder of FairPlay Challenge, an innovation education company that designs educational escape room kits. Molly also sits on the [https://www.oit.edu/news/oregon-techs-second-annual-ready-set-innovate-event-inspires-innovation-among-local-students Ready. Set. Innovate!] planning committee helping students in Klamath County get to experience a day filled with innovation education. Molly is now entering her senior year at OIT and will be a UI guide for the 2024 UIF cohort!

Molly and her business partner [https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-kightlinger-98b511195/ Grant Kightlinger ] won first place and the people’s choice award at the 2024 [https://www.oit.edu/academics/catalyze-challenge Catalyze Klamath Competition] with their business idea the FairPlay Challenge. The two developed a line of education escape room kits for middle school students in Oregon that teach both traditional subjects and social and emotional skills. They also received a bid to move onto the state level entrepreneurship competition, [https://www.inventoregon.org/ Invent Oregon]. They moved on in the competition becoming finalists presenting their project at OSU. Although the project fell short of a winning prize, it turned heads in the innovation education space. [https://www.lemelson.org/ The Lemelson Foundation] took notice and interviewed Molly about FairPlay Challenge. [https://medium.com/invention-notebook/escaping-the-ordinary-in-the-classroom-27f6fe2a7ed5 You can read the full article here!]  <br />