While he was a student at UMBC, Markus Proctor made entrepreneurship part of his education by starting the company EduPal. He was able to win funding for the venture and proved he learned lessons about the need to keep learning and pivoting. But back then, it was also apparent, at least to this reporter, that he was a leader on the community level, especially among local students interested in innovation and startups.
We saw him at events like TechBreakfast and met up for interviews and eggs at Federal Hill’s Spoons, venturing well off campus to connect with the local tech community. Just at the beginning of a period where it seemed like every university in the region was starting to build an entrepreneurship program, Proctor was out digging in.
Today, Proctor looks back and sees his passion for building entrepreneurship in the region crystallizing in 2014, when he went to Annapolis to testify in favor of bill before the Maryland House of Delegates that would ultimately create the Maryland Technology Internship Program (MTIP).
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