The founders of SnoPlanks, a Bend-based snowboard company, decided to donate it to the Oregon State University – Cascades campus. Now, students are running the show.
SnoPlanks Academy aims to teach students skills like marketing, sales and supply chain management with hands-on experience. Students also ran a booth at the Snowvana trade show in Portland earlier this month.
We learn more about the program from Caitlin Colgin, the president of SnoPlanks and a senior majoring in outdoor products in the college of engineering and Todd Laurence, an instructor and executive director of SnoPlanks Academy at OSU-Cascades.
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