Inaugural “Paulsen Scholarship” Awards Presented at Don Reynold’s Competition

 

Timothy Harlin from Oklahoma City University and, Nicholas Harrison from the University of Oklahoma are the recipients of the first annual “Paulsen Scholarships” presented at the 2009 Don Reynold’s Governor’s Cup business plan awards ceremony on April 14.

The $5,000 scholarships are named for Don Paulsen, longtime President of the Oklahoma Business Roundtable. Paulsen received special recognition in front of an audience of over 500 at the annual gala in Oklahoma City.

Nicholas Harrison

“We are pleased to award these two outstanding young entrepreneurs with this scholarship, named after one of their greatest boosters, Don Paulsen,” said Tom Maxwell, incoming chairman of the Oklahoma Business Roundtable.

Both students have been invited to make presentations to top corporate leaders at the Roundtable’s June membership meeting in Tulsa.

Our judges have been so impressed with the individuals as well as the business plans and the products they were presenting that this year the Roundtable expanded from one to two scholarships,” says Don Paulsen, president of the Oklahoma Business Roundtable. “The increased interest in the scholarships and the students that are coming forward with very interesting projects and business plans are very exciting to our roundtable members.”

Tom Maxwell and Donald Paulsen

Both of these recipients placed as winners in the Gov Cup competition.

Harlin was a part of Hexakit from OCU who won the $20,000 first-place cash award in the graduate division for a business plan that proposed to commercialize a generic version of a heart imaging drug used to investigate damage caused by heart attack.

Harrison was team leader for Bio-Oil Extraction Technologies who won $5000 as the third place winner in the graduate division for a business plan that will bring advanced biomass oil extraction technologies to market.

 

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