Our local business community partners with area schools to create project-based experiences for students by providing funding, expertise, meeting space, business tours, and one-on-one mentoring. Students earn high school credit upon successfully completing the two-semester course.
CEO students visit area businesses, learn from guest speakers, participate in a class business, write business plans, and start and operate their own businesses. Business concepts learned through the experiential CEO class are critical; the 21st century skills of problem-solving, teamwork, self-motivation, responsibility, higher-order thinking, communication, and inquiry are at the heart of a student’s development throughout the course.
The CEO program is locally managed by a board of directors composed of professionals from our own business community, and is powered by Midland Institute for Entrepreneurship. 2023-24 is the first year of the CEO program in Kankakee County. Follow our page to learn more about what Kankakee County CEO students are accomplishing this school year!
Our local business community partners with area schools to create project-based experiences for students by providing funding, expertise, meeting space, business tours, and one-on-one mentoring. Students earn high school credit upon successfully completing the two-semester course.
CEO students visit area businesses, learn from guest speakers, participate in a class business, write business plans, and start and operate their own businesses. Business concepts learned through the experiential CEO class are critical; the 21st century skills of problem-solving, teamwork, self-motivation, responsibility, higher-order thinking, communication, and inquiry are at the heart of a student’s development throughout the course.
The CEO program is locally managed by a board of directors composed of professionals from our own business community, and is powered by Midland Institute for Entrepreneurship. 2023-24 is the first year of the CEO program in Kankakee County. Follow our page to learn more about what Kankakee County CEO students are accomplishing this school year!