VSP Premier Edge™
STUDENT BUSINESS CHALLENGE
The VSP Premier Edge Student Business Challenge is a scholarship opportunity for optometry students interested in a path to private practice ownership. In collaboration with the Association of Practice Management Educators (APME) and Student Optometric Leadership Network (SOLN), the VSP Premier Edge Student Business Challenge asks applicants to submit a business plan that describes their professional and personal plan to private practice ownership. One optometry student will be awarded one (1) $10,000 scholarship, plus a travel grant to the annual SOLN Conference. In addition, two (2) runners-up will be awarded $5,000 each, plus each will receive a travel grant to the annual SOLN Conference.
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Applicants must be a current student attending one of the 24 schools or colleges of optometry with a SOLN-affiliated Private Practice Club. They must also be an active Private Practice Club board member representative from their school of optometry.
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APME judges will evaluate and select the top three candidates, who will be contacted to present their business plans at the 2024 SOLN Conference where the official winner will be announced.
The deadline to apply is April 15, 2024.
2023 STUDENT BUSINESS CHALLENGE WINNER
VSP Vision™ has announced 2023 graduate of Midwestern University and Arizona College of Optometry student, Evan Sveinson as the 2023 Premier Edge™ Student Business Challenge winner.
In collaboration with the Association of Practice Management Educators (APME) and Student Optometric Leadership Network (SOLN), the challenge was designed for optometry students interested in a path to private practice ownership. Sveinson was awarded a $10,000 scholarship, as well as a travel grant to the annual SOLN conference.
The two runners-up, Annie Stiles and Chad Said, were each awarded a $5,000 scholarship and travel grants to the SOLN conference.
See below for previous year's finalists and winners!
