Steve Miller was presented with the first annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award last night at Point Loma Nazarene University. After working for an entire school year on his project, The Cereal Company, he claimed a prize of $2,500 for his business plan.

The Cereal Company, which Steve wants to open up sometime within the next year in his home state of Colorado, will feature a variety of cereals that patrons can customize with fruit, nuts or other toppings. Though it’s not completely original (there are cereal cafés already open in Florida, New Jersey and Arizona), Steve wants to expand on the cereal café idea by making his a place students can call theirs.

The Cereal Company and seven other projects were a part of PLNU’s Entrepreneurial Enrichment Program. The EEP helps make student business plans possible by paring up students with members of the business community.

Every project was given $500 to get their business off the ground. PLNU’s Fermanian Business Center director and head of the EEP, Randy Ataide, said that one of the most important things about the EEP is that he wanted all of the participants to collaborate.

“I have to tell you that long, hard consideration went into if we would even have an Entrepreneur of the Year Award,” Randy said at the EEP Banquet. “But we also wanted to honor excellence.”

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