Southeast Community College’s Entrepreneurship Center is celebrating its fifth anniversary during National Entrepreneurship Week. At the same time, President Obama is taking the opportunity to help push high-growth entrepreneurship into the spotlight.

Since it began, SCC’s Entrepreneurship Center has received more than $250,000 in grant and outside funding to develop programs and procedures, has enrolled 840 students in entrepreneurship courses, and has accepted 26 businesses into the incubator. Of those 26, 16 are active and five have graduated from the program.

New tenants in the SCC business incubator are Crystal Clear Photo and Design, One World Healing, Advantage Training Plus, Changing Spaces SRS, SirkDot Innovations, Short Bowel Syndrome Foundation, and Complete Insurance.

The Center also is involved in national and international projects. Earlier this month, the American Association of Community Colleges announced the selection of SCC and nine other colleges from across the nation to participate in a pilot Virtual Incubation Network, an innovative approach to encourage the creation of more start-up businesses to help sustain continued economic recovery.

For more information about Southeast Community College’s Entrepreneurship Center, contact Stu Osterthun at 323-3401 or see us online at http://www.southeast.edu/discover/locations/ENT.