{"id":8847,"date":"2026-03-19T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/?p=8847"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:34:56","slug":"hood-college-invites-student-innovators-to-enter-annual-entrepreneurship-pitch-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/hood-college-invites-student-innovators-to-enter-annual-entrepreneurship-pitch-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hood College Invites Student Innovators to Enter Annual Entrepreneurship Pitch Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Piper Wright\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Delaplaine School of Business is looking for future entrepreneurs to participate in this year&#8217;s entrepreneurship pitch competition and conference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The competition is open to any Hood College and Frederick Community College students, with $5,000 worth of prizes and awards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pitches must be submitted via the website by March 23 in order to take the stage on April 17, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Free breakfast and lunch will be served to both participants and audience members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information and ways to submit your pitch, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/hood.edu\/EPCCHood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>hood.edu\/EPCCHood<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Piper Wright\/\/ The Delaplaine School of Business is looking for future entrepreneurs to participate in this year&#8217;s entrepreneurship pitch competition and conference.&nbsp; The competition is open to any Hood College and Frederick Community College <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/hood-college-invites-student-innovators-to-enter-annual-entrepreneurship-pitch-contest\/\" title=\"Hood College Invites Student Innovators to Enter Annual Entrepreneurship Pitch Contest\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":8848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,194],"class_list":["post-8847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-hood-college","tag-issue-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8849,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions\/8849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}