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The following Career Service positions are open:
- Purchasing assistant, University Support Services
- Senior secretary, Institutional Advancement
- Cook, Market Place
- Secretary, Grants Accounting
For additional information or an employment application, view the
announcement at
http://YourFuture.sdbor.edu.
Altmyer presents at national
Stock Market Game Symposium - top
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Don Altmyer, associate professor in the College of
Business and Technology at Black Hills State University, has been
invited to present at a session of the annual Stock Market Game (SMG)
Symposium in Memphis, Tenn., in June.
The topic of his presentation “Strategies for teacher
training workshops in a geographically-large/population-small rural
state,” profiles the workshops delivered by Altmyer at four high schools
throughout South Dakota this past January. A total of 31 teachers from
29 high schools received training in economics and personal finance at
Watertown High School, Brandon Valley High School, Douglas High School
and Custer High School during the workshops. Teachers received
curriculum materials by subject and grade level with content conforming
to national standards in economics and personal finance.
Effective this fall, the South Dakota Board of
Education is requiring an economics/personal finance course for all high
school graduates. The fall 2006 South Dakota Stock Market Game begins
Oct. 2 and concludes its 10-week session Dec 8.
Altmyer has been the coordinator for the South Dakota
Stock Market Game since 1997 and the director for the BHSU Center for
Economic Education since 2003. The SMG Symposium brings state
coordinators and teachers together to receive training in curriculum
materials and technologies and to share successful ideas in delivering
the program. This year’s theme, “Expanding Educational Excellence,”
profiles a new teaching curriculum to deliver the program in a variety
of subjects and grade levels.
The SMG is a national educational program based on the
U.S. equity market system for students in grades 4 through 12. The SMG
takes place in the classroom under the supervision of a program-trained
teacher. Approximately 500,000 students and 12,000 teachers across the
nation participate each year.
Many students, whose background circumstances would
not otherwise easily intersect with the world of investing, awaken to a
sense of personal opportunity and real world hands-on learning according
to Altmyer. The SMG program is administered by the Foundation for
Investor Education, a non-profit organization advocating investor
education in the United States.
Altmyer earned a bachelor’s degree in business
administration from Duquesne University and a master’s degree from
California State University-Fullerton. He joined the BHSU faculty in
1995. For more information on the program, visit
www.smgww.org or visit
www.bhsu.edu/stock+market+game.aspx or call Altmyer at 642-6266.
Black Hills State University will
host teachers' institutes - top
BHSU faculty member Jace DeCory will
be among the speakers at the Tribal Governments and Indian Land
Teachers’ Institutes for K-12 teachers this summer at Black Hills State
University.
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The Office of Native Educational Endeavors (NEE) at
Black Hills State University will host two Tribal Governments and Indian
Lands Teachers’ Institutes for K-12 teachers this summer. The first
institute will be June 19-23, and the second institute is scheduled for
July 17-21.
According to John Glover, NEE director, teachers from
the states of South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and
Montana will be in attendance. The three main areas of focus for the
institutes are tribal government, Indian land, and sacred Indian sites.
Participants will be shown methods and materials useful in conveying
this complicated material to their students. A distinguished list of
guest lecturers including college faculty, tribal judges, and attorneys,
are scheduled to share their expertise.
The NEE office, a cooperative venture between the
University of South Dakota Law School Foundation and BHSU, is providing
the institutes. Major funding comes from the Indian Land Tenure
Foundation, a private non-profit entity with main offices in Minnesota
whose mission is to ensure that: "land within the original boundaries of
every reservation and other areas of high significance where tribes
retain aboriginal interest are in Indian ownership and management." The
South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment
for the Humanities, is co-sponsoring the institutes.
Participants receive free tuition as well as $550 to
be used for curriculum and expenses. The participants will earn three
renewal credit hours, approved by the South Dakota Department of
Education.
According to Glover, there are a few spots available
in both sessions. For details, contact institute director, Urla Marcus,
at 642-6048, or email
UrlaMarcus@bhsu.edu. A printable informational brochure and
application can be found on the NEE webpage
www.bhsu.edu/artssciences/indianstudies/nee/.
University students attend
N2TEC 2006 Summer Institute - top
Ed Sobey (right), Launch Invention
Workshop presenter, looks on as Ryan Gillen prepares to launch a rocket
his team created during the N2TEC Seminar at Black Hills State
University. Gillen is one of 20 students from BHSU, the University of
South Dakota, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, South Dakota
State University, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln attending the
10-week institute designed to engage students in the entrepreneurial
process.
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Twenty students from universities across South Dakota
are currently participating in the 10-week National Network for
Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (N2TEC) Summer
Institute on the campus of Black Hills State University. Several
institute workshops are open to the general public as well.
The students, who are in the Science and Technology
Entrepreneurship Program (STEP), were organized into teams, each
including a science or engineering major, a business or management
major, and an education or other major. Each STEP team was then
partnered with a community entrepreneur mentor team and faculty
researchers.
According to information from the N2TEC program, the
institute, which is led by a team of technology entrepreneurship
faculty, professionals and entrepreneurs from around the United States,
attempts to engage attendees in “the art, mindset, and process of
entrepreneurship from opportunity identification and vetting to building
an growing a new venture.”
Several of the N2TEC Summer Institute workshops are
open to the public at a cost of $39 per session. All workshops, with the
exception of the Monday, June 12 session, will be held on the BHSU
campus. The June 12 session will be held at Hudson Hall in downtown
Spearfish. A workshop schedule follows:
- Monday, June 5 – Entrepreneurship and Economic
Development with Ashley Swearingen
- Wednesday, June 7 – Integrating Entrepreneurship
into the Curriculum
- Monday, June 12 – Feasibility Analysis: How Do I
Know This Business Concept Can Fly?
- Wednesday, June 14 – Investing in New Ventures:
Analyzing a Potential Business Opportunity
- Monday, June 19 – The Business Plan: What It
Takes to Build a Successful New Company
- Tuesday, June 27 – Introduction to
Entrepreneurial Finance: Bootstrapping
- Thursday, June 29 – Early-Stage Funding: Creative
Ways to Fund a Start-up Venture
- Monday, July 10 – Growth Funding: Tapping into a
Wealth of Funding Sources for Second-stage Companies
- Wednesday, July 12 – Bringing New Technology to
Market
- Monday, July 17 – Growing and Managing the
Business
- Monday, July 24 – The Legal Aspects of
Entrepreneurship
- Tuesday, July 25 – How to Give an Effective Pitch
for Your Business
For more information or to register for an N2TEC
workshop, see www.n2tec.org or
www.n2tec.org/hpc/SummerInstitute.asp#purpose. General information
about the N2TEC Summer Institute may also be obtained by calling the
BHSU Center for Business and Entrepreneurship at 642-6091.
BHSU hosts business plan
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Winners in the first annual business
plan competition at Black Hills State University included: front row,
left to right, Jobeth Stenerson, Anita Sandretto, Elise Foltz, Lindsay
Holum; back row, Lewis Hettinga, Scott Lindeman, Dustin Jensen, Rory
Maynard, Tyler Goodrich and Harley Lux. Not pictured are: Clayton Bryan,
Dustin Jensen, Damon Punt, Seth Artz, Scott Lindeman, Rocky Ruzicka,
and Anna Hermanson.
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Business students at Black Hills State University recently
participated in a business plan competition hosted by the Center for
Business and Entrepreneurship.
Students earning first place in the five separate divisions for the
business plan competition were as follows: Clayton Bryan, Spearfish;
Dustin Jensen, Rapid City; Cassie Kimball, Spearfish; Harley Lux, Lead;
and Damon Punt, Mitchell. Earning second- and third-place honors were
the following students: Seth Artz, Spearfish; Lewis Hettinga, Spearfish;
Lindsay Holum, Gillette, Wyo.; Scott Lindeman, Glenham; Rory Maynard,
Spearfish; Rocky Ruzicka, Belle Fourche; Anita Sandretto, Red Lodge,
Mont.; and Jobeth Stenerson, Hardin, Mont.
In addition to preparing a complete business plan that was evaluated
by a team of judges, each student or team delivered a formal 17-19
minute presentation about their plan and then answered questions.
Students were evaluated on factors that included creativity,
presentation skills, realism and quality of the business plan. Judges
for the business plan competition were area businesspeople Bob Burnett,
Bruce Byrum, Terry Caudill, Jodie Henry, Jeremy Hoven, Joe Jorgenson,
Bob Knapp, Greg Kruskamp, Amy Lee, Bob Meyer, Mitch Moe, Eric Neis,
Terry Sheehan, Bryan Walker, and Jayna Watson.
Another feature in this two-day event was the elevator pitch
competition in which each student prepared a two-page overview of a
business idea or concept, delivered a 7-9 minute presentation and
answered questions posed by the judges on the business concept. Tyler
Goodrich, Spearfish, earned first-place honors and Elise Foltz,
Spearfish, and Anna Hermanson, Hot Springs, tied for second place.
Judges for this event were area business people Scott Gannaway, Lisa
Langer, Jo Lutness, and Mark Papousek.
For more information on the Center for Business and Entrepreneurship,
the business plan competition, and/or the entrepreneurial studies
specialization at BHSU, contact Dr. Priscilla Romkema by email at
PriscillaRomkema@bhsu.edu
or call 642-6091 or Professor Verona Beguin by email at
VeronaBeguin@bhsu.edu or call
642-6398.
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