Stress can be good. And our students are feeling the pressure this week as their business plans are due before our “banker day”. We spent the morning with our mentors, combing through ...

The students met at the U of I extension office with the winning trivia team to present a check, donating to 4-H. The students were able to give $2,405.70 back to the community! We ...

This year, CEO has 4 students wanting to get into the food industry. The class “zoomed” with Kari Lane from Egyptian Health Department to find out everything they need for their ...

Hailey Winkleman from Evil Eye Creative Studio came and shared her creativity with each student. She started the morning asking them to “doodle” to get their creative juices flowing. ...

Katharine Stewart is an expert on all things business plans. She spent the morning with our group walking through every section to include and what information goes in it. The students ...

Holly Healy came and talked to the group about the City of Carmi. Holly has been involved with the CEO program since it began, and had great advice for students who want to come back ...

Matt Henson from Living the Adventure Ministry came and talked to the students about running his 501C3 non-profit. Matt covered the importance of marketing and using the correct logo. ...

We are so thankful for our mentors! It was a great day to chat about the success of Blast Through the Past and try to work on ideas for personal businesses.

CEO toured the current Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year, Little Sprouts Learning Center. Beth Conner told the students what it feels like to switch from working for someone to ...

Justin Dartt and Kelsi Hunsinger hosted our class for a morning of financials. Our CFO Alexa Knight did a fantastic job of keeping track of our income and expenses. So the morning was ...

JC Tinsley from WRUL came and recorded our students for open line. He also became our speaker for the morning and told the students all about the marketing the radio station does to ...

Ryan Follis from Midland Institute came and spoke to our class about what it takes to succeed in the real world. He told the kids to “fail faster”. Make a point to take the risk and if ...