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Youth Will Be Served, and Is
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Business New Haven
6/9/2003
By: BNH
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HAMDEN - Four high-school students were winners while four others earned honorable mention in the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship's (NFTE) third "Youth BizPlan" competition June 4 at Quinnipiac University.
Daniel Martinez, a student at Bassick High in Bridgeport, topped the competition and won the $1,000 grand prize for a business named El Coqui, a restaurant specializing in Latino fare. Ada Llulla and Drilona Saliu of Waterbury's Crosby High School won $750 for a business called Load's Tutoring & Learning Center. Hartford adult-ed student Daron Mitchell took third-place honors, and $500, for a business plan for Scavenger's Records & Entertainment. (Each winner also received an IBM computer). Among the four honorable mentions was Joseph Locarelli of New Haven's High School in the Community.
NFTE is a non-profit organization that teaches at-risk inner-city youths principles of entrepreneurship.
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