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Mayor's Great Ideas Competition
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Mayor Ron Littlefield's Great Ideas Competition that encourages creative entrepreneurship among high school students. The students received a total of $7,500 in college scholarships for their innovative business ideas. |
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2008 FINALISTS |
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Download the 2008 Great Ideas Competition Finalists Video
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Brian Ball , a senior at the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, for his Choo Choo Charlie’s Restaurant. “It’s a train-themed restaurant that serves the customers’ food on a model train,” Ball says. “Its purpose is to celebrate the history of the train in Chattanooga, in addition to the impact it has on our society today."
Kelsey Bailey, a senior at Soddy-Daisy High School, for her Clothes in Code company. She describes it as a “business that provides Chattanooga area students with dress code appropriate, yet very fashionable clothing at a reasonable cost.”
Emily Blevins of Girls Preparatory School, for Intron Research Cooperation. IRC is a research facility specializing in non-coding regions of the DNA or introns, which have been classified as "junk" until recently when findings began to show introns very likely influence genetic traits. “The study of this area in the DNA could provide causes and cures to genetic diseases previously mysterious to the scientific world,” says Blevins, a GPS junior. |
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2008 RECIPIENTS |
First Place
Kelsey Bailey
Soddy-Daisy High School
Second Place
Brian Ball
Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences
Third Place
Emily Blevins
Girls Preparatory School
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