{"id":4708,"date":"2026-11-01T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2026-11-01T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:40:22","slug":"celebrating-student-achievements-dinuka-pathirage-shines-at-jpura-kadamandiya-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/celebrating-student-achievements-dinuka-pathirage-shines-at-jpura-kadamandiya-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Student Achievements: Dinuka Pathirage Shines at J&#8217;pura Kadamandiya \u201926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J&#8217;pura Kadamandiya &#8217;26<\/strong> is the fourth annual entrepreneurship marketplace organized by the <strong>J&#8217;pura Startup Hub<\/strong> of the <strong>University of Sri Jayewardenepura<\/strong>. Held on <strong>24<sup>th<\/sup> June 2026<\/strong>, the event provided a platform for <strong>36 entrepreneurs<\/strong> to showcase their innovative products, business ideas, and entrepreneurial talents. The event aimed to promote innovation, creativity, and sustainable entrepreneurship while connecting student entrepreneurs with customers, industry professionals, and the university community. To recognize outstanding achievements, awards were presented in nine categories, including Innovation, Sustainability, Community Impact, Marketing, Fundraising, Creative Products, Social Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Excellence, and Entrepreneurial Concept. Several of our students participated in the event by operating their own business stalls. Among them, a third-year student <strong>Dinuka Pathirage<\/strong>, from the Department achieved remarkable success by securing <strong>Second Place<\/strong> in the <strong>Best Entrepreneurial Concept<\/strong> category and <strong>Third Place<\/strong> in the <strong>Most Outstanding Marketer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=c2bbc5c0f2&amp;attid=0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-a:r1703601521838863105&amp;th=1a19789d744eda96&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;permmsgid=msg-a:r1703601521838863105&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-GxaEkKwSlQ931KLUfDA2P1YGoc9tasIutaVcYQPFfThjaSgpdDaNLga68wKF7itxhaoPdJ3T8kQSeca3f1a8d4oAprqh0-SkGMd6h3AvOohqK7cJ3ihw2FIE&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=497FF3EC-04C9-458A-9A2B-B04F9EB29E43&amp;zw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J&#8217;pura Kadamandiya &#8217;26 is the fourth annual entrepreneurship marketplace organized by the J&#8217;pura Startup Hub of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Held on 24th June 2026, the event provided a platform for 36 entrepreneurs to showcase their innovative products, business ideas, and entrepreneurial talents. The event aimed to promote innovation, creativity, and sustainable entrepreneurship while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":4710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,26,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-en","category-news","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}