With LLCEO Program, Students begin the journey of a lifetime

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[October 04, 2017] 

LINCOLN

While most high school students are thinking about school supplies, classes and extracurriculars, students of the Land of Lincoln CEO class are thinking about what it looks like to start and run their own personal businesses. On August 28th, our community began the CEO program year- just the first in a series of steps to help cultivate real life skills in our students and to enter our community into a national network of high caliber, young leaders.

“CEO” stands for Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities. It is a year-long, experientially learning based course, designed to utilize partnerships in our community to provide an overview of business processes and development.

Throughout the program year, students will visit local businesses, learn from guest speakers, participate in operating a class business, write a business plan, and, from concept to reality, build their own legal, functioning entity.

It is with this program that our community seeks to develop and invest in the next generation. Being faced with real-life challenges has proven results of developing young people who are leaders and problem solvers. It is with this knowledge that they can see, with refreshed perspective, the opportunity that their community holds.

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This program’s dedication to that mission, paired our community’s engagement, will provide each CEO student with the opportunity to develop such skills, setting them up for future successes, and allowing them, along the way, to participate in the experience of a lifetime.

Students selected for the LLCEO class of 2018 are:

  • Talia Andrade - Hartsburg-Emden High School

  • Felipe Buenrostro - Mount Pulaski High School

  • Emma Cooper – Lincoln Community High School

  • Dustyn Gaston – LCHS

  • Austin Hayes – H-E HS

  • Lyndsay Lang – LCHS

  • Zac Luken – LCHS

  • Hayley Matson – H-E HS

  • Mya Roberts – LCHS

  • Emma Schoth - MPHS

Want to get involved? CEO classes are open to the community! Simply visit our website www.llceo.com to contact our facilitator today!

[April Doolin]

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