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This week we were back on campus at Carl Sandburg College! We used the one button studio, and the ovation virtual reality to start preparing for Banker Day next week.
Happy Friday and Happy Valentine's Day! We want to take this opportunity to tell our investors, site hosts, speakers, board members, school districts, business leaders, families, and ...
Thursday was a cold morning but we were excited to tour JetAir. From Porshe airplanes, to medical transport, personal charter, and shipping Stearman airplanes all over the world. We ...
Wednesday we visited Hinchliff-Pearson-West Funeral Home. This business has served our community since before 1950. It has always been locally owned and operated, and in 2017, long ...
Monday was a work day/catch up day. Tuesday we had coffee with our mentors and went through our Business Plans with them.
This morning we toured B.D.i. They are based in Galesburg and specialize in wedge wire screens and profile screens. These stainless steel filtration systems are used in multiple ...
On Thursday we met with Noah Postin of the Knox County Area Partnership to go through the 2nd draft of our business plans. It has been awesome to work with Noah on developing our ...
On Wednesday we visited Lackey & Sons Monuments. Owned by the Ponder family, this is one of my favorite site visits! They have been in business since 1922! Thank you for a great ...
We started off the week with some LinkedIn Learning training. Some of our key concepts this semester focus on marketing our businesses, and we found some great tools through LinkedIn. ...
On Friday we visited Crossfit Wig Wag. Aleks and Mav Rassmussen have been open a year and a half. It was nice to talk about the good bad and ugly of opening a business with someone ...
Thursday we met with Josh Gibb to talk about the difference in nonprofit vs. for profit business structures. We have visited both types of businesses this year and it was great to tie ...
This morning was ROBUST! We had back to back student recruitment presentations. We started at Abingdon-Avon High School, and then scooted over to Knoxville Sr High School. It was a ...
