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= Impact On Students and Campus =
<div style="text-align: center;">{{#Widget:Youtube|id=</span>-pqQ9cFpOVw<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 28px; white-space: pre-wrap;">}}<br/></div><div></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:large;">'''Recent LaunchPad Successes:'''</span><br/></div><div<br/></div>
<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Q-Cigarettes - '''<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: minion-pro, serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Drew Park</span></span>
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<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px;">'''Q-Cigarettes - '''Drew Park, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and a first-year master’s student at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, pitched his company's unique new treatment for tobacco dependence at </span><span style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); line-height: 1.3em;">Wake Forest's 2014 Retail and Health Innovation Challenge, taking home the grand prize of $25,000. </span><br/></span>
<span style="font-sizefamily:largergeorgia,serif;"><span style="font-familysize:georgia,serifmedium;">Not only does Blackstone LaunchPad help budding entrepreneurs<span style="color: rgb(52, 52, it aids the local economy surrounding the university the students are attending52); line-height: 1. The ventures that students create help increase the number of jobs available in the area3em; background-color: rgb(238, 238, and expand the network of professionals in the region.238);"></span>'''O'Dang Hummus -''' A University of Central Florida student known for his hummus landed a deal with supermarket chain Publix</span><div><br/></divspan><div><br/></div><div span style="textfont-alignsize: centerlarge;">{{#Widget:Youtube|id=</span>-pqQ9cFpOVw</div><div>= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 28px; white-space: prex-wraplarge;">}}<br/span><br/div>= = <div span style="textfont-alignsize: centerx-large;">Community Impact<br/span>= </div><div span style="textfont-alignsize: centerlarger;"><br/></div><div span style="textfont-alignfamily: centergeorgia, serif;">[[File:BlackstoneLaunchpadNot only does Blackstone LaunchPad help budding entrepreneurs, it aids the local economy surrounding the university the students are attending.jpg|border|BlackstoneLaunchpadThe ventures that students create help increase the number of jobs available in the area, and expand the network of professionals in the region.jpg]]<br/span></divspan><div><br/></div></div><div><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:larger;">'''Nationwide & Statewide Impacts:'''</span></div>
*<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''White House's Startup America Initiative- "'''<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">Startup America is a White House initiative that was launched to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation" More details can be found at the website- </span>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/economy/business/startup-america http://www.whitehouse.gov/economy/business/startup-america]</span></span>
*<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">'''California-''' Largest grant of $3.5 million, over 100,000 students affected within California, 350,000 students nationwide involved in networks created</span></span>