STANDING Brooklyn’s Biggest Booster
They’re investing in the future!
BOROUGH WIDE
Congrats to the local entrepreneurs
who won $40,000 earlier this month to
fund their start-up ideas at the Brooklyn
Public Library’s 15th-annual
PowerUP! Business Plan Competition.
The funds will help the businessminded
Brooklynites make their ideas
a reality, according to the library’s
president and chief executive offi cer,
who also cheered the winners for their
achievements.
“We congratulate all of the PowerUP
participants for their vision and
hard work and look forward to visiting
their shops and using their services
in the near future,” said Linda Johnson.
Aspiring inventors
presented
the pitches for
their 77 total projects
to a panel of
judges consisting
of business owners,
nonprofi t leaders,
and academics
at the Dec. 10 competition,
which was co-sponsored by
Dime Community Bank, according
to Brooklyn Public Library spokeswoman
Fritzi Bodenheimer. The experts
ultimately awarded the top prize
of $20,000 to Prospect Heights resident
Jonathan Hessney to fund his company,
OnRout, a platform where reps
from shipping companies — such as
FedEx and United Postal Service —
can bid on jobs.
The judges awarded other prizes
to locals who pitched their ideas for a
tearoom where locals can mingle, and
for a contemporary arcade-bar featuring
multiplayer video games, Bodenheimer
said. — Julianne McShane
SUNSET PARK
Big welcome
Roll out the welcome mat for Dr.
Camilo Correa — a surgical oncologist
and the newest faculty member
to join the rapidly expanding surgery
team at NYU Langone Hospital–
Brooklyn.
Dr. Correa specializes in cancers of
the liver, pancreas, bile duct, and intestines,
as well as soft tissue tumors, and
is an important addition to the medical
center to ensure that Brooklynites
receive the best care, according to the
hospital’s chief of surgery.
“His deep interest and advanced
training in cancer research enhances
our efforts to offer more complex care
right here in Brooklyn,” said Dr.
Prashant Sinha.
A native of Colombia, Dr. Correa
graduated from Universidad de Antioquia
in Medellin. Fluent in Spanish
and English, he
came to the United
States in 2007 for a
clerkship and postdoctoral
research
fellowship at Harvard
Medical
School and Massachusetts
General
Hospital in Boston.
This was followed by a clinical research
fellowship in hepatopancreatobiliary
(liver, pancreas, and bile duct)
surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center in New York.
“I am proud to be part of a team
dedicated to the multidisciplinary
treatment of malignancies with access
to the vast clinical and research resources
of NYU Langone’s Perlmutter
Cancer Center,” Correa said.
COURIER LIFE, D 36 EC. 28, 2018–JAN. 3, 2019 M B G
NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn
150 55th St. at Second Avenue in Sunset
Park, (718) 630–5777.
— Courtney Donahue
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT
In need of help
A group of empowered Brooklyn
women is seeking donations to fund
their move to a Bedford-Stuyvesant
church, where they hope to continue
their do-gooder mission — after concluding
work on some much-needed
renovations.
Charity non-for-profi t Sisters with
Purpose recently came into possession
of the Holy Ghost Tabernacle
Church at 1592 Fulton St. between Albany
and Troy avenues, which they
hope to outfi t as their headquarters,
SHEEPSHEAD BAY
Hip, hip, horray for the staff at
Fillmore Real Estate’s Sheepshead
Bay offi ce, who raised money
for breast-cancer research in honor
of Maimonides Medical Center’s
stellar fund-raising back in November.
Realtors John Reinhardt, Ann
McBride, and their colleagues presented
the chairman of surgery at
the medical center, Dr. Patrick
Borgen, with a check for $40,000 at
the fi rm’s Avenue U offi ce on Dec.
17.
Staff at Maimonides Medical
Center raised a whopping $500,000
during its annual “Pink Week” in
November.
The hospital kicked off its Pink
Week with a stirring ceremony
that featured remarks from clinical
leadership, supporters, and
breast cancer survivors, such as
Glasset Lawson, who told her empowering
story of how she overcame
her diagnosis of the disease
in June.
The hospital held a total of six
events dedicated to the breast-cancer
awareness cause.
Staffers from all departments of
the hospital competed in an annual
contest to see who could “Go Pink”
to the most visible degree, with patients
and visitors across the institution’s
numerous sites enjoying
the colorful displays and costumes
of the workers.
Standing O salutes everyone involved.
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT
He’s a class act
Hats off to Bedford-Stuyvesant
teacher Mike Peterson, who is
amplifying the voices of his students.
Peterson, also known as Coach
Mike, has launched a project to
capture his students’ voices to
serve as auditory time capsules
by using the podcast app Soundtrap.
Peterson taught his fi fth-graders
at PS 297, the Abraham
Stockton School, to record their
thoughts and anecdotes, which
will allow them to look back in
years to come and show them the
power of their own voices, according
to the educator.
“When my students began using
podcasting to record their
own voices, I could see the wonder
fl ash in their eyes,” Peterson
— Kevin Duggan and equip with a roof-top garden and
gathering space, state-of-the-art dance
studio, computer lab, and free community
library, in addition to hosting programs
including food pantries, backto
school fairs, and toy drives.
But the sisters — who have served
20,000 pounds of free food to more than
400 Brooklyn families in need, in addition
to helping 1,000 kids through
their Pathways for Young Leaders
program — will have to lean on their
big-hearted neighbors to help foot the
church’s $60,000 renovation tab, which
will fund work, including repairs to
structural damage and asbestos remediation.
The group is also looking for an additional
$100,000 for supplies and staffing
for programs, which they hope to
have up and running by June 2019.
Anyone looking to help can donate
at www.sisterswithpurpose.net.
— Colin Mixson
said.
The 10- and 11-year-olds were
able to see how technology can
be used to boost their own voices
and confi dence, instead of only
encountering celebrities through
social media, the teacher said.
The school now plans to introduce
the time-capsule project
to its graduating class each year,
and will use its new media room
that will open at the beginning of
the new year, according to Peterson.
— Kevin Duggan
A JOB WELL DONE: John Reinhardt and Ann McBride, along with their colleagues
on the Fillmore Real Estate team, presented a $40,000 check to Maimonides Medical
Center’s Chairman of Surgery Dr. Patrick Borgen. Photo by Steve Solomonson
Realtors donate to hospital’s cause
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