{"id":88398,"date":"2023-10-04T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=88398"},"modified":"2023-10-04T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:31:00","slug":"brock-student-heading-into-the-dragons-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/10\/brock-student-heading-into-the-dragons-den\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock student heading into the Dragons&#8217; Den"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-year Brock student Cecily Zeppetella faces down a panel of potential investors this Thursday night on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/dragonsden\/pitches\/zepps-gear\">CBC\u2019s <em>Dragons\u2019 Den<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Together with her father, Pete Zeppetella, the Media and Communications major will try to persuade the Dragons to invest in <a href=\"https:\/\/sarahswebdesigns.com\/zeppsgear-ca\/2022\/home\/\">ZeppsGear<\/a>, a family business devoted to worker safety and comfort. ZeppsGear outerwear, \u201cmade by the worker for the worker,\u201d is designed to allow a safety harness to be worn under the specially designed jackets.<\/p>\n<p>Zeppetella is no stranger to pitching for industry professionals. Back in 2021, she acted as the emcee for the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/11\/student-pitches-wow-judges-in-grant-dobson-case-competition\/\">Grant Dobson Case Competition<\/a> hosted by Brock\u2019s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to the CBC on Thursday, Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. to see her in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-year Brock student Cecily Zeppetella faces down a panel of potential investors this Thursday night on CBC\u2019s Dragons\u2019 Den.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":88399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[12977,153,522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88400,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88398\/revisions\/88400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}