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This time last year UNLV students Josh Beilin, Kyle George and Keeton Little weren’t very sure about their post-gradation plans. That changed Friday when they were handed a check for $20,000.

The three seniors took first place Friday in the NCET Nevada’s Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup competition – an annual contest designed to foster entrepreneurship and give students some serious cash to help jump-start their innovative business plans. Known as Waste Alternatives Transformation Technologies, their team was the sole UNLV undergraduate participant. Read full story:

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From the Reno Gazette-Journal:

Entrepreneurs from Northern Nevada took second- and third-place honors in the 2008 Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition.

In the undergraduate division:
Wolfpack Works of the University of Nevada, Reno won second place and $10,000 for its presentation on a plan to produce a touch-screen speech-enhancing device for people with communication disabilities.
KG BioSolutions of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village won third place and $5,000 for its plans to develop an on-site generator that provides a restaurant with supplemental electricity from used fryer oil.

In the graduate division:
Go Green Outdoors from UNR won second place and $10,000 for its online resource center for green culture news, information and user forum.
More Water Company, also a venture by UNR students, won third place and $5,000 for its presentation on technology to produce drinking water from the air, helping diminish the impact on lakes and streams.

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