{"id":138502602,"date":"2015-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acccapital.com\/2015-donald-w-reynolds-tri-state-winners-announced\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:02:29","slug":"2015-donald-w-reynolds-tri-state-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acccapital.com\/hi\/2015-donald-w-reynolds-tri-state-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/129664697?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>  <\/center><a title=\"Tristate Awards Dinner Program\" href=\"https:\/\/acccapital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015TriStateProgram.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Download the 2015 Tri-State Awards Dinner Program<\/strong><\/a>  Kordate Solutions, representing the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, won the graduate division of the eighth annual Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State Collegiate Business Plan Competition, held May 28, 2015, at the\u00a0The Mirage in Las Vegas.  Led by Kenny Bierman and Phillip Turner, with Dr. Carol Reeves as faculty advisor, Kordate Solutions focuses on developing a therapeutic Alzheimer&#8217;s drug using the peptoid JPT1 to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease from early on-set to severe dementia.  Joshua Baker, representing Agricultural Innovations from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, beat out five other teams to win the graduate division of the Tri-State Elevator Pitch competition. He took the stage at Tri-State awards dinner to tell the audience \u2013 in 90 seconds \u2013 how his team\u2019s business model offers a more efficient approach to farm irrigation with WellsVision, a sensor-driven automated irrigation system.  Other 2015 Tri-State Winners were:<!--more-->  <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graduate Division:<\/span><\/strong>  <strong>Second Place \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><strong>ParaNano University of Central Oklahoma \u2013 Edmond <\/strong>Team Members: Chelsea Larsen, Jordan Powers, Hitesh Munishamappa Prakash, Shreyas Shivaprakash, Paul Snow Faculty Advisors: Robert Epstein, Maurice Haff  <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Undergraduate Division:<\/span><\/strong>  <strong>First Place \u2013 3Denim <\/strong><strong>Sierra Nevada College \u2013 Incline Village, Nevada <\/strong>Team Members: Kelly Benson, Evan Cook, Brendan Wheelwright Faculty Advisors: Rick Parsons  <strong>Second Place \u2013 Raw <\/strong><strong>University of Oklahoma \u2013 Norman <\/strong>Team Members: Ali Davis, Lauren Abston, Quincy Tresemer, Cici Zhou, Caitlin Zuerker Faculty Advisor: Madison Jackson  Oral presentations were held May 28\u00a0at the Mirage Hotel with winners announced that night at the awards dinner. First-place winners took home a $30,000 cash prize, a team trophy and individual plaques. The second-place winners received a $20,000 prize, a trophy and individual plaques. The teams\u2019 faculty advisors each earned a $3,500 cash prize.  Another $2,000 in cash prizes was awarded to the both of the winners of the Elevator Pitch competition. Ali Davis, representing the team Raw from the University of Oklahoma, won the undergraduate division.  \u201cThis year\u2019s teams presented sophisticated and forward-thinking business plans that have the potential to become very successful companies,\u201d said Rush Deacon, acting chief executive officer for Arkansas Capital. \u201cIt\u2019s exactly the type of innovation we were looking for when we started this competition. This competition is an example of broad efforts Arkansas Capital has spearheaded to support entrepreneurship in Arkansas, and we are very proud of our student competitors.\u201d  Also representing Arkansas at Tri-State were undergraduate division competitors TIRE from Harding University in Searcy; and Charlie\u2019s Choices from John Brown University in Siloam Springs.  The<strong>\u00a0Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State Award<\/strong>\u00a0represents the pinnacle of Donald W. Reynolds Governor\u2019s Cup collegiate business plan competitions in Arkansas, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Each competition has a graduate and an undergraduate track. The top two winning teams from each track compete in the Tri-State event for a cash prize pool of $118,000.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the 2015 Tri-State Awards Dinner Program Kordate Solutions, representing the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, won the graduate division of the eighth annual Donald W. 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