Members of the Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities or CEO program have spent the weeks since school started visiting area businesses and learning what it takes to become an entrepreneur. Next semester, the 19 students in the program will shift their focus creating a business plan of their own and marketing those businesses at the annual showcase.
Preparation continues for the southwest Minnesota Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities (CEO) program 2018-19 school year.
“In your everyday school life, you don’t get to go out and go business to business almost every day,” said Booth. “We get to meet with people, see how they work their business, and see how they work as a person… We are independent. We aren’t told, hey, have your homework done this day. We are told, get it done, or don’t get it done. It’s you. You fly or fail, and usually we fly. We do pretty well as a team.”
The Union County CEO program recently hosted its annual Meet the Mentors breakfast at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church and was the first meeting of the program’s 2017-18 class with their mentors from the business community.
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