Texas A&M Mays Business School MS Business students return to Lake Walk with the Integrated Business Experience

 

Texas A&M Mays Business School MS Business students return to Lake Walk with the Integrated Business Experience

 

LAKE WALK

Bryan, TX – (October 8th, 2024) – Lake Walk and the Texas A&M McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship are partnering with the Integrated Business Experience to give student businesses a dedicated space at The Local to learn business by doing business and raise money for non-profits in the Brazos Valley.

“The Local will always be a place to uplift entrepreneurs and creators in our community,” said Tristan Estrada, Community Coordinator for Lake Walk. “Being able to watch these students, at the start of their journeys as future business leaders, receive mentorship from the artisan vendors and encouragement from our community is such an inspiration.”

The Integrated Business Experience began its partnership with Lake Walk in 2020 to provide a space for student-run businesses to interact directly with customers and learn from best-in-class hospitality leaders at The Local. Texas A&M University Mays Business School students enrolled in the MS Business program participate in the Integrated Business Experience led by the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship to create a business and organize a service entity, enabling students to learn business by doing business.

“The collaboration between the Integrated Business Experience and Lake Walk creates a real-world platform for our students to refine their business acumen and leadership skills,” said Blake Petty, instructor for the Integrated Business Experience course in the Mays Business School. It’s more than just selling a product—it’s about understanding the responsibility of being an entrepreneur and positively impacting the local community,”

Student businesses from the Integrated Business Experience (IBE) will debut this fall at The Local on October 15thfrom 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. with their grand finale at Holiday Night Bazaar on December 7th from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. For more information, please visit our webpage dedicated to IBE businesses at thelocalbcs.com/IBE or contact thelocal@lakewalktx.com.

 

ABOUT LAKE WALK Developed by William Cole Companies, Lake Walk is a 350-acre mixed-use development located in Bryan/College Station, Texas, and home to industry-leading companies in life sciences, national defense, lending, and destination marketing. The region’s best talent selects Lake Walk partly for its location but mostly for its emphasis on the experiences designed to inspire and its active community programming. Its intentionally curated, comfortably upscale collection of regional dining, hospitality, retail, and wellness offerings is set along Lake Atlas, with its award-winning waterfront pavilion and inspirational observation tower. Lake Walk – Life is Here. For more information, please visit lakewalktx.com. ABOUT MCFERRIN CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP The McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship serves as the hub for entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University. The McFerrin Center’s goal is to enhance entrepreneurial education by providing training, networking and assistance to enterprising students, faculty and former students. The McFerrin Center enables the startup and growth of countless businesses and provides competitive opportunities, professional development and financial support to aspiring entrepreneurs in the Aggie community through the support of a robust volunteer mentor network, corporate supporters, faculty and staff. The McFerrin Center defines entrepreneurship as an attitude that acts on opportunity. In this spirit, the McFerrin Center strives to deliver programs and events that are inspiring, engaging, motivating and life-changing. This philosophy has resulted in the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship offering more than 30 unique programs each year that positively impact the lives of thousands of students, veterans and other professionals seeking to blaze their own trail as an entrepreneur.

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