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BackACTiVATE, a program of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
that trains mid-career women to start and manage technology ventures, was
honored by a leading national entrepreneurship organization last Saturday.
The ACTiVATE program received the U.S. Association for Small Business and
Entrepreneurship's (USASBE) award for Best Specialty Entrepreneurship
Education Program. Presented at the organization's annual conference in San
Antonio, Texas, the award was based on each program's innovativeness,
uniqueness, quality, effectiveness,comprehensiveness, sustainability and
transferability.
Julie Kirk, lead instructor for ACTiVATE, Vivian Armor, director of UMBC's, Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship, and Stephen Auvil, director of UMBC's Office of Technology Development, represented ACTiVATE at the
conference.
"The winner is the one program that demonstrates a fresh approach to adding
new meaning to entrepreneurial education," said judging panel member Stan Mandel, an executive professor at the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University and director of the school's Angell Center for Entrepreneurship. "This was clearly demonstrated by UMBC in the ACTiVATE
program-a great concept, implemented well, with outstanding participants."
"The program validates the premise that women are fully leaders and
innovators in technology and business development, not just consumers," said
Claudia Morrell, Executive Director of CWIT and the visionary behind the
idea to make this program focused exclusively on women. "Women are the
fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the country. That combined with
the rich technology resources in the region and the fabulous women
entrepreneur-instructors and role models Julie Lenzer Kirk and Terry Chase,
and we have all the ingredients for the success we are seeing."
Find more information about ACTiVATE program:www.umbc.edu/activate