Lewisburg Small Business Week event to honor Cup O Code

Cup O Code will get the spotlight at the Campus Theatre as Lewisburg businesses look for more foot traffic, visibility and practical support. The Bucknell University Small Business Development Center will host the National Small Business Week event May 7 from 10 a.m. to noon at 413 Market St., right in the heart of downtown.

The gathering comes during National Small Business Week, which runs May 3-9, and is designed to bring together local entrepreneurs and community partners rather than stage a formal ceremony that stands apart from the daily life of Market Street. Steven Stumbris, the SBDC director, framed the event as a chance to reinforce why shopping small matters and how local businesses help hold the community together.

That message lands in a county where merchants depend on steady downtown traffic and local spending to get through slower periods. The Lewisburg program is expected to mix celebration with business support, giving owners a place to connect while also drawing residents into the center of town. The Campus Theatre setting matters because it keeps the event in a visible, walkable location instead of isolating it on a campus edge or in an industrial park.

The award at the center of the event goes to Cup O Code, which will receive the 2026 Charles H. Coder Entrepreneurial Leadership Award. Pennsylvania’s event listing says the company began as a small startup in 2016 and has grown into a multi-location business. It also says Cup O Code has supported fellow entrepreneurs and strengthened the local business community, a profile that helps explain why it stands out in a region where small firms often compete for the same limited pool of customers.

Bucknell’s SBDC serves Juniata, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder and Union counties, and it provides confidential, no-cost consulting along with training workshops. That broader mission gives the Lewisburg event a regional reach, not just a local one, while still putting Main Street at the center of the story.

The Charles H. Coder award carries Bucknell history as well. It is named for Charles Hestin Coder Jr., Bucknell’s former SBDC director and mechanical engineering chair, and previous recipients have reflected a broader view of entrepreneurial leadership across central Pennsylvania. In Lewisburg, the honor will also serve as a public measure of how much a growing local company can shape the business climate around it.