Join us for Keystone Merge on June 6th in York at The Grotto Community Center. Come support two local entrepreneurs as they share a 10-minute presentation about their business followed by an interactive 10-minute Q+A.
Keystone Merge is always the first Thursday of the month at 5pm.
Register to join us in person!
Presentations start at 5:20pm.
HOSTED BY
The Grotto Community Center | 2 W Market St, Floor 2 | York, PA 17401
FEATURED ENTREPRENEURS
Jakyra Simpson
Founder of: STEAM Sneakerheadz
STEAM Sneakerheadz™ is an education consultation business that combines the passion for sneaker culture with the principles of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM).
We strive to expose students and the public especially those within underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized communities to advanced STEAM science topics. Utilizing hip-hop and sneaker culture as the main topics at the end of the workshop participants create and design their custom STEAM sneaker artwork.
During a STEAM sneaker art workshop students create and customize their sneaker artwork. In each workshop, we introduce chemistry concepts and provide a chemical demo (if applicable), and a hands-on activity. Workshops are created for students in grades 6-12 and up to adults. These workshops are designed to promote STEAM education with project-based learning and hands-on activities.
Greatest Challenge:
I have explored packaging up my curriculum and selling online, not yet executed, still working on legal protection.
Goals/Balance: Never maintained always put school first but recently starting dedicating 1-2 work days to business
ENTREPRENUER #2
Founder of: ColdStart.ai
ColdStart.ai is a company that uses AI to build advanced targetting strategies for customers to find good products organically for long term success that advertisements don't provide.
Greatest Challenge:
Should this technology be apart of my current startup or as a separate company. Both have pros and cons and I've gotten a lot of mixed information on this.
AT THE EVENT
5:00pm
Drinks and Hors D’oeuvres
5:20pm
Welcome and Introductions
5:30pm
Entrepreneur #1: 10min pres. + 10min Q&A
5:50pm
Entrepreneur #2: 10min pres. + 10min Q&A
6:10pm
Networking
PARKING
George St. Garage and Street Parking available
PARTNERS
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