Eight finalists from throughout Maine will compete May 26 for a $25,000 prize. Top Gun assists early-stage entrepreneurs in growing their businesses through classroom curriculum and mentoring.
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LEWISTON A Lewiston staffing agency that would specialize in matching immigrants with open jobs and a Topsham entrepreneur whose website would introduce foodies to the local food and beverage scene wherever they travel in Maine are moving on to the Top Gun statewide finals.
They’ll face six other regional finalists all pitching-off on May 26 for the $25,000 grand prize from Maine Technology Institute.
“I would like to point out LA had the Top Gun winner for the state last year, so we’re pretty excited about the entrepreneurial supports and pathways in the region,” Shanna Cox, president of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, said Thursday as the fifth annual Top Gun LA pitch-off got underway.
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BELFAST Belfast Area High School students joined 200 fellow students and competitors from around the state for the 75th Maine State Science Fair, with a special emphasis on the ocean’s ecology and its relation to rising temperatures.
Chelsea Gaiero, Jonah Lovejoy, and Grace Hall participated in the April 3 virtual fair, which was organized by The Jackson Laboratory and the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance.
The fair comprised 157 students representing 23 schools in eight Maine counties tuned in to present virtual research or engineering projects to a panel of judges and attend events. High school students from across the state competed for prestigious state titles and over $1 million in scholarships and awards.
Joe Raczka and Jerry King Join the Defendify Board of Directors
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Raczka and King to Add Business, SaaS, and Startup Expertise to Defendify Board We’re extremely excited to have both Joe and Jerry on the Defendify Board of Directors, said Rob Simopoulos, Co-Founder of Defendify. Each brings a wealth of knowledge and success in driving technology solutions and business growth. They will add tremendous value in supporting Defendify’s vision PORTLAND, Maine (PRWEB) May 04, 2021
Defendify, the all-in-one, award-winning cybersecurity platform, today announced that Joe Raczka, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at York IE, and Jerry King, Technology Executive and Entrepreneur, have joined the Defendify Board of Directors.
CEI announces initiative sharing market data with Maine seafood industry
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Brunswick, Maine, U.S.A.-based Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI) has announced it has acquired and plans to share competitive national seafood industry sales information with Maine’s seafood industry to help businesses expand sales.
The sales information consists of syndicated broadline sales data for key species harvested in Maine, with breakdowns of regional and metropolitan markets in the U.S. CEI said it purchased the data as part of its Maine Seafood Marketing Initiative, a pilot effort to establish a marketing association for the state’s seafood products.