How to you bridge the gap between generations? Over the course of a 10-month school year, Midland Institute CEO students visit and listen to 50 to 70 small business owners who reside in their hometown, but even with learning from the business community, students often struggle with ways to connect with those leaders.
With its roots in Effingham County, the popular CEO program for high school students has spread across the state and beyond since it began in 2008. But it never took up in Shelby County. Until now.
When you graduate in a class of 50 students in a high school where your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents attended, the world may seem fairly small. But when students in Winchester, IL gained the opportunity to participate in the Midland Institute for Entrepreneurship CEO program, the world got a little bigger.