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AFN's Alaska Marketplace Competition winners announced

The Alaska Federation of Natives has announced the winners of its 5th annual Alaska Marketplace Competition.

The popular "innovation competition" awards a total of $200,000 in seed money to entrepreneurs across the state for business development. Its goal is to "spur real economic growth in Alaska's rural communities."

Here is the entire list of 2011 winners:

Rodrick Phillip for Caniineq Wind Group - $25,000

Tessa Baldwin for Hope4Alaska - $25,000

Edmond Apassingok for Aksik Detachable Fins - $25,000

Erin Margaret Forton for Bering Tea - $22,000

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Lindsey Meyers for Food As Medicine - $20,000

Michael Golub for RevUp: Electric Car Instruction - $15,000

Teri Crawley Norton for Sea Salt from Alaska - $10,000

Phillip Solomon for Yukon River Fish Wheel Kits - $10,000

John Stam for Circular Sawmill in Galena - $10,000

Heather Wells for Enchanted Forest Nursery - $5,000

Rebecca Wilbur for Yup'ik Originals - $5,000 (People's Choice Honoree)

Etta Tall for Auka's JBK Salve - $3,000

Penny Olanna for Tory's Tea - $3,000

Michelle Sparck for ArXotica - $2,000

Dune Lankard for Copper River Wild Salmon Company - $2,000

Agnes Phillips for Betty's Shop - $2,000

Tim Meyers for Meyers Farm - $2,000

Eva Sheldon for Kobuk River Cabins - $2,000

Mark & Shelly Leary for Stone Woman Adventures - $2,000

Kate Rich & Ezekiel Tenhoff for Nome Yurt Camp - $2,000

Michelle Scannell for Tundra Toys - $2,000

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The competition also awarded $1,000 each to five essayists. Here's the list of essay winners and the subjects:

Vera Starbard - Net-based behavioral health for youth suicide prevention

Dale Rooney - A New Paradigm for Energy Storage, Distribution and Use

Kathy Pratt – Visit to Alaska

Tiffany Jackson – QTTech

Walter Rose – Norton Sound Biomass Heating Solutions

Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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