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Anyone who saw Austin Yoshino jogging on Oct. 24 at the UH Mānoa campus while wearing headphones probably assumed he was listening to music or a podcast. He wasn’t: The 21-year-old was listening to his self-recorded practice pitch in preparation for Hawai‘i’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards that evening.

The practice paid off as Yoshino finished first among four finalists.

 

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