James Johnston wins People Choice Award at E3 Exposition for Entrepreneurs at Emerson College

BOSTON, MA (05/01/2014)(readMedia)-- James Johnston, a junior at Emerson College, won the People's Choice Award for his business venture Rex Ragnarok Apparel at the ninth annual Emerson Entrepreneurship Experience (E3) Exposition on April 19, 2014. He was also chosen as the first recipient of the Karl Baehr Scholarship Award. Johnston is a Marketing Communications major and Entrepreneurial Studies minor from Wilmington, Massachusetts. Rex Ragnarok Apparel is a video game–themed apparel company that provides high–quality casual apparel and unique novelty items for people who love gaming.

About E3

Emerson College's E3 program has been led, since its inception, by faculty member Karl Baehr who was named by Fortune Magazine as one of the nation's top professors of entrepreneurial studies. Sadly, Baehr passed away unexpectedly last fall, leaving behind his dedicated students and colleagues to continue his work to foster the rise of entrepreneurial talent at the College.

Now in its ninth year, the E3 program is a yearlong immersion in crafting a new business venture; at the conference the student entrepreneurs compete for a combined $20,000 in cash and prizes to get their companies started. More than 150 ventures have been created in Emerson's yearlong, immersive experience and more than 30 percent of those have been realized into businesses. According to the Princeton Review, that is 25 percent more than other entrepreneurial programs. Several of the current students are already in business and have captured significant media attention.

About Emerson College

Located in Boston, Massachusetts, opposite historic Boston Common and in the heart of the city's Theatre District, Emerson is the only four-year private college in the United States devoted to teaching communication and the arts in a liberal arts context. The College has 3,660 undergraduates and 829 graduate students from across the United States and 50 countries. Supported by state-of-the-art facilities and a renowned faculty, students participate in more than 90 student organizations and performance groups, 14 NCAA teams, student publications, honor societies, television stations including the Emerson Channel, and WERS-FM, the nation's highest rated student-run radio station. Emerson is internationally known for its study and internship programs in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., the Netherlands, China, and the Czech Republic. A new permanent facility on Sunset Boulevard for its LA-based program opened officially in March 2014. For more information, visit www.emerson.edu.