Ravenscraft Receives Third Place in Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Regionals

Michael Ravenscraft, senior biology and business administration-finance double major from Festus, Mo., was selected as the third place winner for the Mississippi/Coastal Student Entrepreneur Awards. He was honored at the Small Business Week Luncheon Salute to Young Entrepreneurs May 3 in St. Louis.

Ravenscraft created Pricemonk.com, a price comparison Web site that offers college students discount prices on textbooks as well as music, movies and video games.

Students can search for books by course and the site will compare prices from multiple well known online textbook retailers. Pricemonk.com serves students at Truman, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Missouri-Rolla and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.