UNR teams win at Governor's Cup

Two teams from the University of Nevada, Reno, won cash prizes in the Donald W. Reynold's Governor's Cup college business plan competition last week.

Envirohaven won a $25,0000 first-place award among undergraduate teams for a plan for creation of self-contained, energy-efficient home packages. The team also won the $10,000 Lt. Governor's Award for best plan involving green energy or energy conservation.

Captain of Envirohaven is Clint Borchard, a management student at UNR. Team members and their majors include Vicki Bischoff (psychology), Manpreet Kaur (accounting), Shaun Cameron, (communication studies and information systems) and Adair Melendez (mechanical engineering).

Winning a $10,000 third-place award in the undergraduate competition was The Deep End, a team that proposes the deepest indoor swimming pool in the world. (The pool proposed for a Reno location would be 35-meters deep.)

Justin Morrill, a finance and economics student at UNR, was captain. He was joined by Jasper Allen Jacobs, a marketing student.

The competition is presented by Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.