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Student earns entrepreneurship grant with innovative hair accessory
This past December, Melia Watkins, a sophomore marketing major, won an entrepreneur scholarship through a competition offered at Goshen College. Watkins developed a product called Arilaya Beaded Cord, which consists of leather strands decorated with beads that is braided into the hair and secured with a bobby pin.