
Student entrepreneurs at St. Olaf College are busy this week finalizing their pitches for Ole Cup, the annual entrepreneurial competition held on campus.
And this year, Oles have more resources to develop their ventures thanks to Steve ’61 and Billie Slethaug Moksnes ’61. Through a generous gift to the college, the couple is supporting a three-year pilot expansion of resources for entrepreneurial learning at St. Olaf.
“It’s definitely busy,” says St. Olaf’s New Associate Director of Entrepreneurship and Outreach Margaret Bransford, whose position is supported by their gift.
From her office between the college’s new makerspace and the Digital Scholarship Center (DiSCO), she has good sight into the work students are doing. In…