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Lisa Hurley

Aug 15, 2026

20:31
So, Lisa, why did YCDC create Spark? And what the need of the organization trying to address? That's a loaded question.
20:42
I wanted to do a business pitch contest for probably a decade.
20:47
Okay.
20:48
I was incredibly jealous of the communities that were doing them.
20:54
So I followed quite a few and I analyzed quite a few.
20:58
And what I thought was wonderful working well what i thought could be opportunities in york county but the need for it is entrepreneurship and startups continue to grow every year and There's a process to it.
21:22
There's a mindset.

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It's
7:01
Please tell our listeners, what are you doing?
7:06
So this project goes back over a decade, but we have really worked on it for the last probably 24 months.
7:13
We've completed a feasibility study.
7:16
It was our largest school, York Public School, the superintendent and me going and talking to our manufacturers.
7:25
What are your needs? We really kind of broke it down to your immediate, your short-term needs, you know, that two to three years, what's coming in, in five years and what's coming in that five to 10 years.
7:41
So we kind of broke it down into three categories, the media, short, near, and far, the four categories.
7:51
We have in York right now the York Learning Center by Southeast Community College.

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Do you think it will be equal K-12 in adults or skewed in any direction?

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