We have transitioned BestPrep’s Annual Luncheon event to a completely virtual platform, now called the Annual Lunch-In! Join us on October 5, 2020 at 12:00pm from your home or office to honor our most outstanding volunteers, teachers, and students from the 2019-2020 school year. Stay where you are, having your lunch in, and participate in […]
Day 3 was opened by the greatest program manager, Janae, and our theme was “Making Moves,” sponsored by the Allstate Foundation. Our first keynote speaker was Rob Goggins, the CEO of Great Clips. A little background on Great Clips: It was established in 1983 and today has over 1,200 franchisees, $1.6B in sales last year, […]
Day 2 of eMBV is themed, “Financial Keys” and it was sponsored by the Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship, so of course, we want to give a big thanks to them! The Director of the Center, Margrette Newhouse, had a very nice welcoming message for the students. After the kick-off hosted by Janae, we had a very motivational keynote […]
It was a very exciting day for us as we started day one. Today, the theme was “Dare to Dream, sponsored by Arby’s. We started the day off with Program Manager Janae Olinger’s welcome to eMBV and then we had the opportunity to hear from our keynote speaker, John Thomas, former NBA player, and the Vice […]
We wrapped up the third and final day of virtual Minnesota Business Venture (eMBV) today! Students started off the morning with a keynote address from Roz Tsai, the Vice President of Talent, Learning, and Org Effectiveness at Thrivent. Tsai inspired students as she spoke about her journey of developing and emerging as a leader. She […]
Today marked the second day of virtual Minnesota Business Venture (eMBV)! After a kickoff speech given by eMBV Program Manager Janae Olinger, students had the pleasure of hearing from keynote speaker Enzo Vinholi, an innovative and tech-savvy business student from the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas. Vinholi spoke about the […]
We were thrilled to launch the virtual Minnesota Business Venture program (eMBV) today! At 9 o’clock this morning, around 200 students, along with eMBV staff and student leaders, opened their electronic devices to officially begin their journey with eMBV. Although this year’s Minnesota Business Venture is not being held in-person due to the challenges presented […]
BestPrep’s Communications Intern and past Minnesota Business Venture (MBV) student, Peaches Avre, spoke with another MBV alum and Corporate Wellness Manager at Gympass, Tarik Kidane, who shared his experience at camp and how it has helped him in his career. Tarik attended BestPrep’s business and career high school summer camp, MBV, as a student in […]
