BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e8f2deaa-827f-45db-a6d9-eab2276a850f.171884@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20161005T175747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161005T175747Z LOCATION:Plaster Student Union\, Robert W. Theater SUMMARY:Keynote Speaker: ABC's Shark Tank Contestant and Scholly CEO Chris Gray DESCRIPTION:Have you ever seen ABC's reality TV show\, Shark Tank? If so\, you may have seen the episode where Chris Gray\, the co-founder and CEO of Scholly\, pitched his idea to the shark investors after being awarded $1.3 million to attend any college of his choice. \n\n\nGray knows that f inding outside scholarships is a difficult task. It took him seven months and over 100 scholarship applications to win $1.3 million. After attaini ng much success and paying for his undergraduate degree\, he created an a pp\, known as Scholly. \n\n\nScholly is a scholarship search app that hel ps students find and apply for scholarships. \n\n\nGray describes an insp iring story of a young man who overcame socio-economic barriers that stoo d in the way of him securing a higher education degree. Come and listen t o his journey in overcoming poverty and eventually being the recipient of $1.3 million in scholarships. \n\n\nGray grew up in Birmingham\, AL. Dur ing his senior year of high school\, he began searching for colleges that interested him. However\, during his senior year\, his mom lost her job due to the recession and Gray found it difficult to pay the application f ee that colleges and universities charge. He grew up in a low income fami ly with two siblings and a single mother. His experiences in poverty made him realize that the only way to make it to college was to pay for it th rough scholarships. \n\n\nGray was featured on ABC's Shark Tank in Februa ry 2015.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Ha ve you ever seen&nbsp\;ABC's&nbsp\;reality TV show\,&nbsp\;<em>Shark Tank </em>? If so\, you may have seen the episode where Chris Gray\, the co-fo under and CEO of&nbsp\;Scholly\, pitched his idea to the shark investors after being&nbsp\;<strong>awarded $1.3 million </strong>to attend any col lege of his choice.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Gray knows that finding outside schola rships is a difficult task. It took him seven months and over 100 scholar ship applications to win $1.3 million. After attaining much success and p aying for his undergraduate degree\, he created an app\, known as Scholly .&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Scholly&nbsp\;is a scholarship search app</stron g>&nbsp\;that helps students find and apply for scholarships.&nbsp\;</p>\ n<p><strong>Gray describes an inspiring story</strong>&nbsp\;of a young m an who overcame socio-economic barriers that stood in the way of him secu ring a higher education degree. Come and listen to his journey in overcom ing poverty and eventually being the recipient of $1.3 million in scholar ships.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Gray grew up in Birmingham\, AL. During his senior year of high school\, he began searching for colleges that interested him . However\, during his senior year\, his mom lost her job due to the rece ssion and Gray found it difficult to pay the application fee that college s and universities charge. He grew up in a low income family with two sib lings and a single mother. His experiences in poverty made him realize th at the only way to make it to college was to pay for it through scholarsh ips.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Gray was featured on ABC's Shark Tank in February 201 5.&nbsp\;</p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161108T200000 SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.missouristate.edu/FinancialAid/RealLIFE/real-life-events.htm CATEGORIES:Public,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR