SMALL BUSINESS DIVISION Semi-Finalists
Central Paw Dog Resort
East Central University
Advisor: Stacey Bolin
Team Leader: Faith Andrews
Central Paw Dog Resort provides customizable daycare and boarding services that includes mentally stimulating activities for pets. The boutique features quality dog food, merchandise and a playground available to pet owners to spend quality time with their dog.
MNR Medical
University of Central Oklahoma
Advisor: Maurice Haff
Team Leader: Stephen McCoy
MNR Medical acts as a wholesale distributor of foot and ankle orthopedic technologies to orthopedic physicians in the Oklahoma City area. It offers a strong product line of foot and ankle products from nine major vendors from around the nation.
Perfect Form
Oral Roberts University
Advisor: Kevin Schneider
Team Leader: Isaac Rowaiye
Team Members: Nathan Musgrove and Zechariah Tay
Perfect Form created a fitness software application that provides individualized workouts and meal plans for users. The app uses an Adaptive Technology Exercise Management System to track every rep during exercise and ensure perfect user form.
Salvation Lumber
East Central University
Advisor: Stacey Bolin
Team Leader: Logan Cosby
Salvation Lumber turns lumber from salvaged local trees into high quality wood products for woodworkers, home builders and contractors. The lumber comes from tree surgeons, land clearing, local customers, and its own tree removal service.
Soap N’ Stuff
East Central University
Advisor: Stacey Bolin
Team Leader: Nathan Fountain
Soap N’ Stuff is an innovative fundraising company that offers customizable soap products for clients such as schools and other non-profits. It manufactures soap products and distributes them to clients according to their specifications.
Soul Soupsters and The Revolving Door
East Central University
Advisor: Stacey Bolin
Team Leader: Jill Ballard
Team Member: Linda Woodward
Soul Soupsters and The Revolving Door offers an incubator in Ada for aspiring food entrepreneurs who can rent the venture’s state-of-the-art commercial kitchen for food prep and testing. It also offers soups and other foods created in its kitchen to consumers in a store-front dining area.
Tec-Match
Oklahoma Christian University
Advisor: Daniel Blair
Team Leader: Luisa Aroujo
Team Members: Carson Hazel, Derrick Karake and Mary Silas
Tec-Match simplifies the process of transferring technology developed by the Department of Defense to private businesses. It uses a recommendation engine that matches DOD technologies to industry needs.
The No-Waste Paste
East Central University
Advisor: Stacey Bolin
Team Leader: Madalyn Hess
The No-Waste Paste reduces waste and provides a solution to a messy household problem with a reusable toothpaste dispenser. The solution not only reduces toothpaste waste, but also the amount of plastic and foil tubes that are thrown away with leftover paste still inside.
