CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Tech-focused Elevate Your Voice: Virtual Elevator Pitch Competition!
🥇First Place:
Erica Miller Roberts🥈Second Place:
Alana Edwards ✨Audience Choice:
Paige Rankin 👏👏 These professionals captured our judges’ attention with confidence, clarity, and compelling pitches!
We would like to give a heartfelt thank you to our sponsors:
SC Small Business Development Centers,
Palmetto Society for Human Resource Management, and Way Cool People.
We sincerely appreciate our incredible judges:
Nelie Kouamou, M.Eng ISE , FE, CSSGB (
Society of Women Engineers-Lowcountry),
Ty’Rielle McBride (
TEKsystems), and
Paul Featheringill (SC SBDC), for the time, insight, and meaningful feedback you’ve provided to help students elevate their skills.
We’re grateful to Paul Featheringill for joining our CEO,
Jackie Trail Kohlhepp, SHRM-SCP, LISW-AP, in an engaging interview on Pitch Like a Pro: What Job Seekers Can Learn from Business Innovators.
Special thanks to our guest speaker,
Eugina Jordan (
YOUnifiedAI), for giving us the need-to-know info on incorporating AI into our workflows!