FAMU Student Helps Win Competition Hosted by Apple and TMCF

July 22, 2019

FAMU student, Sydney Holness, helped land her team first place in The Pitch 2019, an innovation and entrepreneurial competition hosted by Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Apple.

Holness joined four other students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, who were hand-selected for the competition.

TMCF National Ambassador, Terrence J, who served as a judge offered another FAMU student, Kennedy Hayden, a summer internship with his management company, Sunset Park Productions, in Los Angeles.

By Tallahassee Democrat.

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