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title: Senior Student Selected for 2020 SVB University Trek Program
description: Mena is majoring in marketing and co-majoring in entrepreneurship. She co-founded CleatGuard while still in high school, as part of the INCubatoredu.
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# Senior Student Selected for 2020 SVB University Trek Program

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Miami University, Farmer School of Business, FSB News

*By: FSB News on December 9, 2019*

For the third year in a row, a Farmer School student has been selected for a program that brings together top students and members of the West Coast startup community for several days of discussions and learning.

The [SVB University Trek program](https://www.svb.com/living-our-values/svb-trek) is a four-day intensive immersion into the San Francisco and Silicon Valley venture capital ecosystem that runs the first week of January. The program connects a small group of undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students from a select list of top business schools and entrepreneurship programs (limited to 25-30 students) with successful founders and institutional investors to help students expand their professional networks and to inspire entrepreneurship among the group.

This year, the [Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)](https://www.svb.com/) team selected [Laura Mena](https://www.linkedin.com/in/menalo/) for the program.

Mena is a senior majoring in marketing and co-majoring in entrepreneurship. She co-founded [CleatGuard](https://youtu.be/VGiGq5FHiMc), which provides a low-profile rubber guard that protects athletes’ cleats when off the field, with her sister Kat while still in high school, as part of the [INCubatoredu](https://www.unchartedlearning.org/student-programs/incubatoredu) program.

[Read More](https://miamioh.edu/fsb/news/2019/10/laura-mena-svb-trek-2020.html)

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