Viscogliosi Entrepreneurship Center Sponsors Panel Discussion for Startup Minded Students

A seminar especially for students with bright ideas for business will be led by business leader Keshia Ashe at MCC on Main – Manchester Community College’s Arts and Education Center – on Tuesday, March 10, from 6 to 8 p.m., as part of MCC’s Viscogliosi Entrepreneurship Center (VEC) series on student startups. The program is free and open to the public.

Ashe, the CEO of Many Mentors – a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) online and in-person non-profit mentoring organization – founded her business while still in school.

Today she connects college-level mentors with middle- and high-school students interested in learning more about STEM degrees and careers. She will lead a panel discussion with Matt Cremin, co-founder and CEO of Voda, a Connecticut startup that is the product of an idea he developed in an entrepreneurship class as a student at the University of Connecticut; Bruno Chinma, founder and president of Creating Economic Opportunity, an organization focused on bringing together bright young minds to come up with ideas and make them real; and Nick Ortiz, vice president and a founder of Creating Economic Opportunity, who is currently a senior at Central Connecticut State University.

There will also be an opportunity for networking with entrepreneurial minded people. For more information, call 860-647-6030.