![]() Graham Seaborn ’21, an economics major and business management and entrepreneurship minor, helped create a Caribbean-inspired business called Taste of Worcester along with his two groupmates. The truck they used was a retro converted Volkswagen Combi recently imported from Mexico by Entrepreneurship and Innovation Professor John Dobson’s DYME Institute. The students underwent food safety certification in preparation for launching their ventures and completed the city’s food truck permitting process. ![]() The class then heard from various leaders in the Worcester community, including Peter Dunn, chief development officer with the city of Worcester, Tina Zlody, director of the Worcester Public Market, and Ivette Olmeda, a MassDevelopment Transformative Development Initiative fellow, among others. The semester began with a “brainwriting” session during which three teams of students developed three distinct ventures and themes for the food truck. “The course offered these students a real-life experience in both entrepreneurship and management, plus an opportunity to collaborate in the greater community using their new business as an engagement tool,” Professor Lisa Dobson says. Students in the capstone course Community-Based Entrepreneurship operated their own food truck in the Main South neighborhood in partnership with local businesses and organizations. A group of students this past semester took their education on the road to give the local community a taste of Clark.
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