For The Daily Southerner
TARBORO —
Taresia Batts, a third- year student at Edgecombe Early College High School, attended the Bennett College Summer High School Girls Entrepreneurship Institute (SEI) on the Bennett campus in Greensboro from June 20-27.
During her time at the summer program, Batts’ joined 18 other rising juniors and seniors from North Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia and Maryland to learn the principals of entrepreneurship, business-planning methods, marketing techniques and networking skills.
At the conclusion of the Institute, these young women participated in a business plan competition where they made a formal presentation of their plan to potential funders.
Batts’ won a laptop computer with accessories and a $50 gift card for “selling” her business plan to the judges during an elevator ride. The concept of the elevator ride was that you should be able to convince someone to buy into your business in the time that it takes to go a few floors on an elevator.
Batts’ was grated a scholarship by the N.C. Institute for Economic Development, Junior Achievement of Central North Carolina and N.C. REAL to attend the institute.
