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Meet Our Students. At ASU, students from any degree program may participate in entrepreneurship programs. our students take the initiative and embrace the risk of entrepreneurship to pursue their passions, without being held back by a narrowly defined entrepreneurship program, major or center. Below are just a few of their stories and successes. We also invite you to view our student winners for the ASU Innovation Challenge and the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative.

Ammon Curtis

Posted by Anonymous on April 10, 2013 at 1:18 PM MST
Ammon Curtis

Mr. Curtis has an undergraduate degree in business marketing and is currently working on his MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. He has consulted many clients on both strategy and marketing. Previously he worked for one of the leading chemical providers specifically servicing long-term care facilities throughout Arizona.

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Christopher Wilson

Posted by Anonymous on April 10, 2013 at 1:12 PM MST
Christopher Wilson

Mr. Wilson is a W.P.

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Eric Lehnhardt

Posted by Anonymous on April 10, 2013 at 12:15 PM MST
Eric Lehnhardt

Eric Lehnhardt is a 2012 graduate from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

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Peter Wegner

Posted by Anonymous on April 09, 2013 at 11:46 AM MST
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Peter Wegner, will be graduating in May 2013 from Arizona State University with a PhD in Rhetoric & Linguistics, and he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He founded Mercury Innovative in mid-2010 and has since released two lines of software: TIM, a book-animation hybrid for kids that integrates learning, reading, and entertainment, and 2.

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Derek Overstreet

Posted by Anonymous on April 08, 2013 at 4:01 PM MST
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Derek Overstreet is a 2012 Ph.D. graduate in biomedical engineering from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He received a Bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2008 from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.

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Elie Chmouni, graduate, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Posted by Anonymous on May 24, 2011 at 12:14 PM MST
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ASU graduate Elie Chmouni received his masters in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 and has gone on to start a new venture called Blue Dream. He is also a 2011 Edson grant winner. Photo by Kyle Patton

Elie Chmouni is a 2009 graduate from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He received his bachelors in mechanical engineering and went on to complete his masters in the same field in 2011. Chmouni and his company, Blue Dream, recently won a $2,000 grant and office space at ASU SkySong from the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative,  a funding opportunity open to ASU students. Blue Dream is a one-stop shop for development, design and production of video, audio, graphics and marketing material. Chmouni and his team have already won two national awards for work in video and have a growing collection of guaranteed contracts. Blue Dream will fully-launch later this year.

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Susanna Young, graduate, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Posted by Anonymous on May 23, 2011 at 1:46 PM MST
Susanna Young
ASU graduate Susanna Young poses for a portrait. Young is a two-time Innovation Challenge winner as well as a 2011 Edson winner. Photo by Kyle Patton

Susanna Young is a 2011 graduate from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Throughout her undergraduate studies, Young also dedicated her time to establishing Project LOCAL, which focuses on converting decommissioned steel shipping containers into maternity clinics for use in rural areas in Africa.  The project was one that started through EPICS, Engineering Projects in Community Service. Young is also a part of a new venture called G3Box, a fusing of Project LOCAL and with another like-minded project. Young and her peers plan on having their first clinical prototype completed at the end of the year and on site in Africa in 2012.

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