KEARNEY – Multi-directional skateboard wheels, television mounts for residence hall rooms, a foster care app and online music school. These inventions all have something in common. Those four products and many others won cash through Big Idea Kearney, an annual contest hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Rural Development in the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s College of Business and Technology. The competition, in its eighth year, is looking for the next batch of new … [Read more...]
Internships introduce UNK business students to career opportunities; 130 in workforce this summer
There are 130 students from UNK’s College of Business and Technology working as interns this summer, with 105 in Nebraska and 25 in other states across the country. By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Tianna Engen won’t need to look for a job when she graduates from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in July. She already has that taken care of. The business administration major with an accounting concentration was hired last month as a corporate accountant at The Buckle’s … [Read more...]
UNK launching new student entrepreneurship program, living-learning community
By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – A new program at the University of Nebraska at Kearney will give aspiring entrepreneurs a leg up in the business world. UNK’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Rural Development is launching a living-learning community next fall to connect innovative, forward-thinking students and allow them to collaborate in settings outside the classroom. The goal of the program is to foster creative thinking, introduce students to the local business … [Read more...]
Janet Lear fell in love with teaching at UNK; retiring after 17 years
By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Janet Lear has received plenty of awards and honors during her 17 years of teaching at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She was named the University Business Teacher of the Year by the Mountain-Plains Business Education Association in 2013, won several BEST Awards from the Nebraska Department of Education for her influence on business and marketing education in the state and earned the title of Nebraska Phi Beta Lambda Adviser of the … [Read more...]
Have a great business idea? Big Idea Kearney can help
KEARNEY – Big Idea Kearney has helped area entrepreneurs launch many successful business ideas in the six years since the contest was first hosted. Past winners of the contest developed business models for a double-sided peanut butter jar, automatic irrigation shutoff and multi-directional skateboard wheels, among others. Entries again are being accepted for the business idea contest, which is spearheaded by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Rural Development in the University of … [Read more...]
