{"id":64141,"date":"2013-06-10T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=64141"},"modified":"2013-06-10T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:46:35","slug":"umw-graduate-wins-first-place-at-area-entrepreneurship-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/10\/umw-graduate-wins-first-place-at-area-entrepreneurship-event\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Graduate Wins First Place at Area Entrepreneurship Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Leonard, a 2013 University of Mary Washington graduate, is one step closer to making his mobile application idea a reality after winning first place at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.fredericksburg.com\/businessbrowser\/2013\/06\/10\/umw-graduate-wins-startup-weekend-fredericksburg-event\/\">Startup Weekend Fredericksburg<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64171\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/10\/umw-graduate-wins-first-place-at-area-entrepreneurship-event\/startup-weekend-winner\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"64171\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/startup-weekend-winner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/Startup-Weekend-Winner.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Startup Weekend Winner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Andy Leonard (in pink shirt) celebrates with his team after winning the Startup Weekend Fredericksburg event on Sunday, June 9. Photo by Matt Armstrong.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/Startup-Weekend-Winner-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/Startup-Weekend-Winner.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64171\" title=\"Startup Weekend Winner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/Startup-Weekend-Winner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/Startup-Weekend-Winner-300x225.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/Startup-Weekend-Winner-600x450.jpg 600w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/Startup-Weekend-Winner.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Leonard (in pink shirt) celebrates with his team after winning the Startup Weekend Fredericksburg event on Sunday, June 9. Photo by Matt Armstrong.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the weekend-long event, Leonard led a team to present <a href=\"http:\/\/campusid.us\/\">CampusIDeas<\/a>, an app that enables users to store and access their college IDs on their smart phones or other devices. The win is the second one for the app formerly called Campus Connect, which also took first place at the <a href=\"http:\/\/eagleeye.umw.edu\/2013\/04\/25\/umw-app-entrepreneurs-win-start-up-challenge\/\">UMW Eagle Start-Up Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to bring our app to the local college campuses. That is the first step of many,\u201d said Leonard who is already talking with businesses about partnerships around Germanna Community College where the event took place.<\/p>\n<p>The idea, which he hopes will someday spread nationwide, is that students will use the app for instant ID access and businesses can then use the app to advertise their services.<\/p>\n<p>The CampusIDeas team is now automatically accepted into the FredXchange Startup Accelerator and the Made in FredVA \u201cShark Tank\u201d-style business plan competition Oct. 24 and can enroll in a free eCornell University online course.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard plans to begin a Master of Business program in the fall, but, in the meantime, he is happy to be pursuing a startup business as an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Leonard, a 2013 University of Mary Washington graduate, is one step closer to making his mobile application idea a reality after winning first place at Startup Weekend Fredericksburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":64171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[709,704],"tags":[715],"topics":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newsletter-archived-latest-news","8":"category-top-stories","9":"tag-alumni","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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