Toronto, ON (Wednesday, March 3, 2010) – Jason Oakley, owner of RECESS! Media Inc. and full time student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, has been named a 2010 Student Entrepreneur Atlantic Regional Champion by national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) and proud program supporter, CIBC.

All Atlantic based student entrepreneurs were judged by live panels of business professionals and regional champions were announced on Friday February 26th in Halifax at the 2010 ACE Atlantic Regional Exposition, proudly supported by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA).

As a Regional Champion, Jason will receive a $1,000 cash prize and move on to the final round of competition at the 2010 ACE National Exposition in Calgary on May 12, 2010. The National Champion will receive a $10,000 cash prize and represent Canada at the international level of competition, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.

“It is an honour to receive this award and compete with successful student entrepreneurs from around the country,” explains Jason Oakley. “Throughout my entire university career I have had the goal of being named the top student entrepreneur in Canada and to see that I am getting closer to that goal can only be described as dream come true.”

“We are thrilled to present this Regional Champion title to Jason Oakley of RECESS,” comments ACE President, Amy Harder. “His perseverance and dedication serves as a great example for student entrepreneurs across Atlantic Canada.”

About RECESS
Since 2008, Jason has owned and operated RECESS! Media Inc, a company whose mission is “to generate profit while creating job opportunities for post secondary students to make money and gain professional experience.” RECESS! Weekly is a free, unique student publication that consists of several games and activities that students can enjoy in their free time. Within the first year of creating his company, Jason had made a profit of over $10,000 through advertising space sales. Jason’s largest business accomplishments to date include; turning his one campus business into a national franchise opportunity by developing a profitable and easy to use business model, having the first RECESS! Media Inc. Franchise at Mount Saint Vincent University where they are putting that model to the test, as well as, launching recessweekly.com - a website that allows franchisees to easily publish their weekly editions of RECESS! using an online publishing tool.

About ACE
Founded in the mid-1980s, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) is a national, charitable organization that is teaching and igniting young Canadians to create brighter futures for themselves and their communities. ACE delivers a team-based program called Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) and an individual-based program, the Student Entrepreneur National Competition. These programs provide university and college students access to real world experience, through the implementation of outreach projects and business ventures that complement in-class studies. Students involved in ACE make a meaningful contribution to their communities today, and discover their potential to achieve an even greater impact as the leaders of tomorrow. Last year, ACE students created 600 jobs, logged 260,000 volunteer hours, impacted 63,000 people, and generated over $40 million in economic activity. ACE is currently established on over 50 post-secondary campuses across Canada.

CIBC became a founding corporate sponsor of ACE in 1995 and has sponsored the Student Entrepreneur Competition since its inception in 1997.

Contact:
Jaime Szegvary
Communications Consultant, ACE
416.619.8994
jaime@acecanada.ca     

Jason Oakley
Owner, RECESS
709.737.4555
oakleyjason@gmail.com
www.recessweekly.com

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