“UMBC has prepared me for a world with complex challenges that require an entrepreneurial mindset and true interdisciplinary collaboration. UMBC's commitment to undergraduates and civic agency has allowed me to gain first-hand experience on how to launch an organization.”
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Andres Camacho
Plans: Food Systems Researcher
B.A., Entrepreneurship and Digital Communication in Interdisciplinary Studies
Hometown: Montgomery Village, MarylandAndres is a two-time winner of the Alex Brown Center for Entrepreneurship Idea Competition, Shattuck Family Entrepreneurial Fellow, and was a finalist in the 2015 Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition. For UMBC's 2012 Idea Competition, he and his collaborators won the top award for Banana Bones, a campus wayfinding mobile app they developed and later sold to Tecore Networks. The team donated a portion of the revenue to help build UMBC’s Entre-space, which is specifically designated to support students as they develop skills in entrepreneurship. For the 2014 Idea Competition, he pitched True Greens, which empowers students to shape their own campus food system. Andres was also the recipient of the 2014 Joseph and Frieda Faiman Eisenberg/VPC Endowed Scholarship.