A Hawai‘i Community College student is the $25,000 grand prize winner of a local business plan competition.
Amanda Gilroy, an entrepreneur behind Mermaid Mushrooms and a Natural Science student at the Hawai‘i CC - Pālamanui campus in Kona, was named the winner of the HIplan Hawai’i Island Business Plan Competition on October 24.
“I still can’t believe it,” Gilroy said after her win.