Marcus Garstecki, Area Dean of Enrollment Management,
welcomes students to the 2010 “Entrepreneurship Day” Wednesday at North Platte Community College. Sixty-five students from ten area high schools attended the event.

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The Mid-Plains Center for Enterprise combined forces with the business department at North Platte Community College to host the 2010 “E-Day” for area high school students Wednesday at the college. Volunteers from the NPCC and McCook Community College chapters of Phi Beta Lambda, the student business organization, helped with the event.

 

E-Day, or Entrepreneurship Day, was designed to help students develop the critical entrepreneurship skills necessary to survive and succeed in today’s business world. Sixty-five students from ten area high schools attended the event.

 

“This is a chance for us to plant a seed that will better the chances of keeping our small communities alive,” said Melissa Garcia, Area Program Manager and E-Day coordinator, adding, “We are very excited to see that our numbers have doubled. It’s great to see that teachers and schools are supporting entrepreneurship.”

 

During the day, teams of students created a fictitious business from the ground up. The process included naming the business; filling out a loan application; creating a budget; visiting with a realtor and producing a physical store layout; updating financial statements and paying off necessary company bills; and filming a television commercial for their company.

 

The teams were each required to present their business to judges and try to convince them they would be successful. Following the presentations, awards were presented to the top three teams.

 

The first place team was Samuel Fisher of Paxton, Dani Ellis of Callaway, Owen Saner of Sandhills and Megan Aguallo of Sutherland with Saddle Up Coffee.

 

Second place winners were Jessica Janovits of McCook, Cody McKnight of Ogallala, Megan Hanna of Thedford and Ceaser Maldonado of Sargent with CCMP Photography.

 

In third place were Blair Youngs of Paxton, Brett Barnes of Sandhills, Justin Belsky of Wallace, Hannah Meyer of Callaway and Christian Hoffman of McCook with Compass Graphics.

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