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= Impact On Students and Campus =
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">{{#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/span><br/span></div><div></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size:large;"</span></span>[[File:Wiki Graphic.png]]<br/></div><div><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size:large;"</span></span><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:large;">'''Recent LaunchPad Successes:'''</span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;">'''Q-Cigarettes'''</span></span><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></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''O'Dang Hummus -''' After winning $15,000 at a Blackstone LaunchPad Demo Day, Jesse Wolfe, a University of Central Florida student, landed a deal with supermarket chain Publix, which will now carry his new salad dressing product.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Roar for Good - '''Wearable self-defense technologhy Roar for Good raised over $260,000 on Kickstarter, receiving more than 4,000 orders from 47 countries around the world. Roar for Good will also compete for a $70,000 grand prize at the SBA InnovateHer Challenge Competition in March.</span></span>
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