From left to right: Margaux Hemady (editor) and Inez Quimson, owner of Pasta by Zeni

The Big Truimph continued... preneur Challenge inculcate entrepreneurship to the high school students and at the same time help Gawad Kalinga to give people a sustainable living. The students help improve the Gawad Kalinga communities’ products and sell it in SM Mall of Asia to help the communities’ sustainable living. Back to the graduation, the BATCH 2008 Graduating students proved they are for social entrepreneurship. They are ready to face the real world of business. They can now fly on their wings and do succeed. They have accomplished their mission in school, having successfully completed the challenge of the course works, dream of graduating college, and being social entrepreneurs. This is not to mention the painstaking hours of learning from their professors and more so, successfully going through Dean Pax Lapid’s terror. The graduation was a very remarkable moment since the Novus Ordus award (the highest award in ESA) has been given to a commendable student, Joan

Gotaoco. Her story is very inspiring, starting here at ESA as a transferee, coming from another school, and now a full pledged entrepreneur with her business--- KOO Clothing. Another awardee is Pam Tupaz, who started in ESA and has gone through the tough venture series. She’s one of the lucky students who were able to withstand Dean Pax Lapid’s meticulousness and terror. She has succeeded and has proven she can do it. Marga Vitug also got the Leadership award and Rodel Lacuata meanwhile was awarded the Entrepreneur for Society.



Going through the venture series is really very tough and crucial because this is the time students will plan, initiate, manage, and assess their businesses. And once they have succeeded every series and have passed all the subjects they now have reached a point where they can safely say they are social entrepreneurs. Let this graduation and each graduation be our striving force and motivation to reach for our dream to graduate and be social entrepreneurs. Let us take their experiences as challenges and motivation for us to follow their successes. Let all their inspiring stories prepare us for tomorrow and let it

mold us to what we will become. Let them be our encouragement to do our best and if possible to be at par with their innovations. Let it also remind us to keep our feet on the ground, pray to the God, and look back to where we started. Congratulations once again to Batch 2008. And for us undergraduates let’s take on the challenge and let their triumph be our model to do our best.
 

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