A team of Western Kentucky University students has been recognized as among the best at finding entrepreneurial solutions to community problems and will advance to a national competition in May.

WKU’s ENACTUS (entrepreneurial action for us all) team showcased four entrepreneurial projects at a regional competition April 9 in Chicago and was judged to be among the best of the 46 teams. The WKU team will be among more than 100 teams competing May 20-22 at the national ENACTUS event in Kansas City.

J. Krist Schell, faculty adviser for the WKU ENACTUS team, said the students put together four entrepreneurial projects designed to address local issues.

The four projects were Bowling Green Night Market, Inventory Solutions, Job Bus and Bowling Green Angels.

The Bowling Green Night Market is a place to connect entrepreneurs to customers. The team’s 11 markets have used underutilized space in downtown Bowling Green during the nighttime hours. Inventory Solutions helps HOTEL INC, which provides transition assistance for those in need, to keep its food pantry at optimum levels. The Job Bus project is an initiative to provide transportation to help solve unemployment issues in Bowling Green. The Bowling Green Angels project connects entrepreneurs to angel investors in the Bowling Green community.

Students making up the WKU ENACTUS team are Michael Harrell, Anne Holden, Dylan Perry, Kate Ngo, Bryan Nelson, Emily Peck, Hope Thompson, Mackenzie Mills, Alyssa Chan, Cameron Aitken, Jacob Stevenson, Ryan Cobb, Emily Davidson, Rebekah Lim, Collette Jolley, Alexander Miller and Nathaniel Oates.

The team is sponsored by the Gordon Ford College of Business and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and has been an active student organization since 2003.