[195] MTSU To Serve As Host For 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Week Events

MTSU TO SERVE AS HOST FOR 2010 GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK EVENTS
Speeches, Documentary Screening All Free and Open to Public

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 9, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Kay Blasingame-Boike, kblasing@mtsu.edu or 615-898-5687

(MURFREESBORO)—Continuing its focus on lifelong learning, MTSU will celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov. 15-19 to connect young people through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.

MTSU’s Department of Business Communication and Entrepreneurship is coordinating the university’s events with the Wright Travel Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Jennings A. Jones College of Business, the College of Mass Communication, Department of Recording Industry and the MTSU School of Music. The worldwide event, involving 100 countries and an estimated 10 million people, is an initiative to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity and to turn their ideas into reality.

A speech from nationally syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock, “Obama vs. Free Enterprise,” on Friday, Nov. 19, will cap five days of entrepreneurship education. Murdock's columns appear in The New York Post, The Boston Herald, The Washington Times, National Review, The Orange County Register and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad. His political commentary airs on ABC's “Nightline,” “NBC Nightly News,” CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, PBS and other television news channels and radio outlets.

Also speaking that Friday will be Sheilah Griggs, vice president of Point 3 Media and executive director of Ladies Who Launch, who has a diverse real-world background in public relations, media relations and marketing.

Other events include local and national speakers as well as a viewing of the film “Ten9Eight,” which will be shown in the Keathley University Center. “Ten9Eight” tells the inspirational stories of several inner-city teens of differing races, religions and ethnicities, from Harlem to Compton and all points in between, as they compete in an annual business plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

All of MTSU’s Global Entrepreneurship Week events are free and open to the public and will be held in the Business and Aerospace Building and Keathley University Center. Off-campus visitors should obtain a campus map and temporary parking pass at the second-floor reference department of the Linebaugh Public Library at 105 W. Vine St., just south of Murfreesboro’s Public Square.

For more information, visit the Global Entrepreneurship Week website at www.mtsu.edu/~entre or call the BCEN department at 615-898-2902.

The week’s full event schedule includes:

Monday, Nov. 15

• 10:20-11:15 a.m., Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building—“Planning for Success,” Roy Baudoin, owner/proprietor, Smyrna Bowling Center;

• 2:20-3:45 p.m., BAS S324—“A RIM Graduate’s Story,” Garrett Parris, songwriter and freelance music producer, Magic Mustang Music and Trax Productions.

Tuesday, Nov. 16

• 9:40–11:05 a.m., BAS S338—“Be Who You Are in Business: Founding a Business that Fits Who You Are, Rather than Changing Yourself to Fit Your Business,” Victor Wooten, bass virtuoso, author and teacher;

• 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m., BAS S324—“Getting Seen and Getting Signed in the Music Business,” Lorenzo Spikes, CEO/scout for Get Seen, Get Signed;

• 1-2:25 p.m., BAS S130A—“Getting Seen and Getting Signed in Sports,” Lorenzo Spikes;

• 1-2:30 p.m. and 2:40-4:10 p.m., Keathley University Center Theater—“Ten9Eight” documentary film screenings.

Wednesday, Nov. 17

• 9-11 a.m., TBA—Tour of Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc., hosted by Ronnie Barrett, president, and Ralph Vaughn, business and global brand marketing, Murfreesboro (limited to 12 students; e-mail rcwilson@mtsu.edu to be placed on the tour list or waiting list);

• 10:20-11:15 a.m., BAS S324—“Zoning and Planning Issues: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know,” Matthew Blomeley, principal planner for the City of Murfreesboro;

• 12:40-2:05 p.m., BAS S324—“How to Start Up and Run a Small Business,” Ray Montgomery, co-owner of Floors and Doors Santa Cruz Garden Furniture and Sidco Worldwide.

Thursday, Nov. 18

• 8-9:25 a.m., BAS S130A—“Blending Quality and Atmosphere into the Perfect Shot,” Teresa Harmon, co-owner, JoZoara Coffee Shop;

• 9:40-11:05 a.m., BAS S324—“Today’s Business Insurance Needs,” Andy Womack of State Farm Insurance;

• 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m., BAS S324—“From the Classroom to the Boardroom,” Connie Landers, owner of jaci’s jewels;

• 1-2:25 p.m., BAS S130A—“What Does It Take to Start a Business?”, Connie Landers;

• 1-2:25 p.m., BAS S324—“Today’s Business Insurance Needs,” Andy Womack;

• 2:40-4:05 p.m., BAS S324—“Sustaining Momentum in the Non-Profit World,” G. Allen Jackson, senior pastor of World Outreach Church/Intend Ministries of Murfreesboro.

Friday, Nov. 19

• 10:20-11:15 a.m., BAS S324—“The Art of the Elevator Pitch: How to Sell Your Idea in 60 Seconds or Less,” Douglass Tatum, Wright Travel Chair in Entrepreneurship and associate professor of business communication and entrepreneurship;

• 1-2:15 p.m., BAS S102 (State Farm Lecture Hall)—Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Sheilah Griggs, vice president of Point 3 Media and executive director of Ladies Who Launch;

• 2:15-3:30 p.m., BAS S102—Entrepreneur Panel Discussion featuring Sheilah Griggs, Tim Liu of Urjanet and Angelyn Pass, founder of Atlanta-based Glāk Love;

• 3:45-5 p.m., BAS S102—“Obama vs. Free Enterprise,” Deroy Murdock, columnist, New York City.


Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. This fall, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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IN BRIEF: Continuing its focus on lifelong learning, MTSU will celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov. 15-19 to connect young people through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. MTSU’s Department of Business Communication and Entrepreneurship is coordinating the university’s events. A speech from nationally syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock, “Obama vs. Free Enterprise,” on Friday, Nov. 19, will cap five days of entrepreneurship education. Also speaking on that Friday will be Sheilah Griggs, vice president of Point 3 Media and executive director of Ladies Who Launch. All of MTSU’s Global Entrepreneurship Week events are free and open to the public and will be held in the Business and Aerospace Building and Keathley University Center. Off-campus visitors should obtain a campus map and temporary parking pass at the second-floor reference department of the Linebaugh Public Library at 105 W. Vine St., just south of Murfreesboro’s Public Square. For more information, visit the Global Entrepreneurship Week website at www.mtsu.edu/~entre or call the BCEN department at 615-898-2902.


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