Meet the Finalists

Offer fresh cold pressed juice blends of fruits and vegetables as well as wellness coaching and support.    

What makes your business unique?

The cold pressed juice product is combined with an experienced registered nurse and certified juice therapist that offers holistic health coaching and support.

Beavers Small Engine Repair provides honest, reliable service for lawn equipment, generators, golf carts, and other small engines. From diagnostics and repairs to maintenance and house calls, we’re committed to getting your equipment back up and running while providing a welcoming, accessible environment where both hearing and Deaf customers can feel comfortable, respected, and understood.

What makes your business unique?

What makes us unique is our commitment to both quality repairs and accessibility. As a Deaf-owned business, we understand the importance of clear communication and creating a welcoming environment where both Deaf and hearing customers feel comfortable, respected, and understood.

We also believe in keeping our customers informed every step of the way with written estimates, photos, videos, repair updates, and house calls when possible. Our goal is simple: provide dependable, personalized service while making small engine repair accessible to everyone.

Wholelistic Esthetics is Martinsburg's premiere holistic skin and body wellness destination, offering advanced treatments including XERF structural skin tightening, microchanneling, manual lymphatic drainage, and deeply customized bespoke facials. We also offer face and body waxing, lash lifting and brow laminations as well as our wellness body treatments. Our clients don't just leave looking better, they leave understanding their skin in a way they never have before.

What makes your business unique?

Most spas in our region offer relaxation. Most med spas offer procedures. Wholelistic Esthetics offers something different, a whole-person approach to skin health that treats the root cause, not just the surface. 

We are the only provider in the eastern panhandle with a proprietary wellness framework built around the five pillars that drive skin behavior (hormones, nervous system regulation, lymphatics, energetics and skin microbiome). 

It's the philosophy behind every decision we make and how we care for our guests that truly separates us, not just a single treatment or single technology.

Servo Reader is a biomedical engineering company that is taking steps to empower the disabled in everyday life and education. This mission starts with our innovative, customizable, and affordable smart braille display for individuals who are visually impaired or deafblind. Specifically, this product is a piece of assistive technology that converts digital text into braille code through upraised pins. It allows the blind to read with their fingertips, navigate the digital world, and accomplish daily tasks - similar to how mobile phones are used. Alongside product sales and manufacturing, Servo Reader provides services for consumers to maintain, learn about, and customize their devices.

What makes your business unique?

Servo Reader will attract its share of available customers through its accessibility to the disadvantaged, connections to schools and organizations, and innovative and multidisciplinary systems, including:

1. Customization
   Servo Reader displays contain customizable tactile components for evolving preferences in how controls and pins feel, including dot firmness, elevation, and tension. This allows the display to conform to finger sensitivity needs for a more comfortable reading experience. The device even has a Formatting Mode, which shows all formatting to be visible when a file is exported from the Editor, and an Annotation Mode, which allows users to enter different annotation symbols and comments in their book. 
   Both encourage users to personalize their files and books for advanced writing.
2. Configuration
   Instead of constantly switching between general settings that apply to the entire device, Servo Reader allows users to set unique preferences for each file using File-Specific Settings. The display also contains multiple behavior profiles that can be switched immediately, such as language and audio accounts, to accommodate changing environments and user needs.
3. Artificial Intelligence
   Servo Reader has an auto-flash camera and internal translation with optical character recognition (OCR), a form of artificial intelligence, to finally let users turn printed text, like books, and unsupported files, such as scanned documents, into readable braille. This opens up thousands of new resources for the blind to navigate.
4. Education
   Servo Reader has an integrated Learning Hub that teaches students to read and type in braille through interactive assignments, gamified content, and tests, all while featuring progress tracking and multilingual support. To provide quick access and safe storage for SD cards and USB flash drives, Servo Reader has an integrated storage container with labeling marks for organization.

In the heart of Martinsburg, West Virginia, Drum Orpheum Rehearsal Hall stands as a beacon for musicians, event planners, and music lovers alike. Founded by Daniel Kelly II, a visionary with a passion for music and community, Drum Orpheum is more than just a state-of-the-art rehearsal space – it's where musical and creative dreams take center stage, and community thrives through the gift of sound and possibility.

What makes your business unique?

We're a hub for musical exploration and community engagement. Our jazz and new music showcases spotlight local talent, while our affordable event rentals make us accessible to all. Through partnerships with Shenandoah Conservatory, Shepherd University, Martinsburg Roundhouse, local arts councils and organizations, we're deeply woven into the fabric of Martinsburg's vibrant arts scene. At Drum Orpheum, every strum of a guitar, every beat of a drum, and every note sung is a step towards realizing musical aspirations. We invite you to be part of our growing community of artists, learners, and music enthusiasts. Whether you're looking to rehearse, perform, learn, or simply immerse yourself in the local music scene, Drum Orpheum is your stage.

STEMForce Academy is a STEM innovation center where K–12 students progress from curious creators to confident innovators through hands-on robotics, coding, engineering, and emerging technologies. Now, STEMForce is expanding that pathway through a dedicated Robotics Innovation Center designed to prepare students for the technology-driven careers of the future.

What makes your business unique?

STEM education shouldn’t be one-size-fits-all, nor should it stand still while technology races forward. STEMForce combines flexible, student-centered learning in science, math, engineering, and technology with an evolving ecosystem of robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, coding, and virtual reality. From supporting homeschool families to developing a K–12 robotics pathway that prepares students for Industry 4.0 careers, we meet learners where they are and give them opportunities to explore where the future is going.

Glory Ridge Farm is a full-time beekeeping enterprise. We produce honey and hive related apothecary items. Our holistic approach to beekeeping prioritizes honeybee health over honey production. Beautifully situated in the Back Creek Valley area of Berkeley County, our farm is a place of peace and solitude for anyone who visits.

What makes your business unique?

Our business is unique due to our creative approach to our product development, with flavor packed healthy items like our infused Spreadable Spun Honey, to our nourishing beeswax beard balms and lotion bars. Our artistic emphasis on our beautifully designed and well executed packaging and labeling is not only eye-catching and appealing but provides delicious, and medicinal high-quality products that you can utilize yourself or be proud to offer as distinctive gifts.

Gourmet Goddesses is a dedicated gluten-free, allergy-friendly bakery created to give people with dietary restrictions more choices they can feel comfortable enjoying. We specialize in celiac-safe baked goods made in our dedicated facility, with a focus on great taste and quality ingredients. We also partner with other small businesses through wholesale, allowing our products to be available beyond our bakery and giving more people throughout the area convenient access to gluten-free , allergy friendly options.

What makes your business unique?

What makes Gourmet Goddesses unique is that we are the first and only dedicated gluten-free bakery in the Berkeley County area. Our dedicated facility allows us to focus on creating celiac-safe baked goods while also offering options for customers with additional food allergies and dietary needs. We provide items that can be difficult to find locally, giving our customers a place where they can enjoy food with greater confidence and more variety.

Shequel is a 12-month subscription experience for women navigating separation and divorce. Through thoughtfully designed monthly boxes, personal letters, and digital content, Shequel brings meaningful support directly to her—because during one of life's most difficult transitions, reaching out for support can feel impossible.

What makes your business unique?

Shequel is so much more than a traditional subscription box or one-time care package. Every subscriber begins with Box 1, named “Here,” and follows the same intentionally designed 12-month experience, with each month addressing a different part of navigating separation and divorce. The journey moves forward without expecting her grief to follow a timeline. Shequel doesn’t require her to show up to a meeting, tell her story, ask for help, or be ready for something she simply isn’t ready for yet. Support comes directly to her door because she deserves to feel supported even when she isn't ready to reach out.

Shequel was created from a unique combination of professional knowledge and lived experience. As someone with a master’s degree in counseling who has also personally experienced divorce, I designed Shequel with an understanding of both the complexity of grief and the everyday realities that can be easy to overlook. The products aren’t simply things in a box;they’re intentionally chosen to complement each month’s message and create meaningful touchpoints she can carry with her throughout the journey.

Ten private, fully themed karaoke rooms. A real kitchen and cocktail program. A livestream studio built for creators. The first venue of its kind within 60 miles — and it is coming to Martinsburg.

What makes your business unique?

Country Roads Karaoke is the only private room karaoke venue within sixty miles of Martinsburg. Instead of one microphone at a bar with a room full of strangers watching, your group gets its own soundproofed, themed room booked by the hour, with a full food and cocktail menu and a server assigned to that room for the whole session. We have ten rooms, from a small space that fits five or six up to a High Roller Vegas suite that seats twenty five, and the venue is sectioned so families get their own side while adults get a full bar on the other. That combination of real privacy, a real kitchen, and a place that works equally well for a kid's birthday party at two in the afternoon and a bachelorette party at ten at night simply does not exist anywhere near here.