Congrats to Amanda Gilroy, Founder/President of Mermaid Mushrooms. She is HIplan 2020 Grand Champion and won our $25,000 grand prize today! Amanda also won a 1-year tuition scholarship to Hawaii Community College where she is enrolled.
Big Island Now: “Mermaid Mushrooms Wins HIPlan Grand Prize”
October 26, 2020
Mermaid Mushrooms, a developing business producing Gourmet Mushrooms for local consumption, was awarded Hawaii Island Business Plan Competition’s (HIPlan) grand prize of $25,000 over the weekend.
Mermaid Mushrooms was one of eight enterprises competing in the 2020 HIPlan competition. The finals were held online via Zoom on Saturday.
Amanda Gilroy, the entrepreneur behind Mermaid Mushrooms, stood out among the other finalists, in the contest “designed to stimulate development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem on Hawaii Island”, organizers say.”
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Mermaid Mushrooms, a Kailua-Kona company developing a business producing gourmet mushrooms for local consumption, was awarded the $25,000 HIplan 2020 Grand Prize on Saturday.
“My business plan is to grow gourmet mushrooms for local consumption,” Gilroy said. “I’m thrilled to get this boost.”
“Our winner clearly is helping to meet a need on our island that would transform the way that we consume, how we relate to our food, on island,” said Meli James, one of the competition judges. “I think that was pretty outstanding.”
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A Hawaiʻi Community College student is the $25,000 grand prize winner of a local business plan competition.
Amanda Gilroy, the entrepreneur behind Mermaid Mushrooms and a natural science student at the Hawaiʻi CC–Pālamanui campus in Kona, was named the winner of the HIplan Hawaiʻi Island Business Plan Competition on October 24.
“I still can’t believe it,” Gilroy said after her win.
Gilroy also won the student category and a one-year tuition scholarship. She will use her winnings to support her plan to grow gourmet mushrooms for local consumption.
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