SC State team wins HP’s national HBCU business competition | National News
A team of five South Carolina State University students recently earned first place in HP’s fifth-annual HBCU Business Challenge, a competition requiring participants to develop a solution to a real-word task.
Team members Jaevien Akinmola, Selim Ben Ali, Nasjay Bostick, Jessica Outlaw and Keyanna Russ bested teams from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) around the country.
Akinmola, a senior from Manning, majoring in agribusiness at SC State, chalked up the win to more cohesive teamwork than his experience in last year’s competition.
“Everyone handled their duties well,” Akinmola said. “Communication stayed open when it needed to be. If something was going on, it got handled in a timely manner. It was executed to perfection.
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