Clark Scholars Visit the co.space for some Tasty Competition

The Clark Scholars Program recently partnered with Penn State Engineering Entrepreneurship to sponsor a competition that combined pizza with entrepreneurship where students strategized new ideas for a pizza business. They created some delicious prototype pizzas and used their marketing and design skills to create marketing plans and pizza box branding.

The event was hosted at the co.space in State College, an off-campus living opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students as well as young professionals in State College. The spot serves as a home and a collaborative workspace for events, allowing residents and guests to connect for project work and relationship-building.

The A. James Clark Scholars Program at Penn State in the College of Engineering serves talented engineering students with significant financial need. The Clark Scholars are a cohort of 40 (10 incoming first-year students entering the program each year) who — through their high school performance, participation in pre-college STEM programs, and other factors — have shown a drive to succeed academically and a willingness to seize opportunities in their lives and their schooling. The Engineering Entrepreneurship Program regularly partners with the Clark Scholars program to provide student experiences to complement their studies.

The Clark Scholars Program builds on the four pillars of business and entrepreneurship, leadership, social equity and global citizenship, and community engagement, ensuring that students make a broader impact beyond the University through outreach and community service projects, and preparing them to become socially responsible innovators and leaders in industry.

Photos courtesy: Poornima Tomy