Food, Inc. at Bijou Show House

The Bijou Show House is excited to bring Food, Inc. to Beach, ND August 14-19, 2009. Food, Inc. is a film by Robert Kenner. It lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, showing how our nation’s food supply is controlled by corporations that put profit ahead of the health of consumers. Food, Inc. reveals surprising, even shocking, truths about what we eat and how the food was produced. It also shows what our nation has become and where we’re going from here.

The Bijou Show House is located at 82-1st Street East in Beach, North Dakota and can be reached at (701) 872-2445.

Kim Hayes
Talent Initiative Assistant
Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Web Bootcamps

Beginning in September, the Strom Center together with SBDC will be hosting web bootcamps. There will be a variety of times and locations, with some one-day sessions and some 3-day sessions. The first bootcamp will be held in Dickinson at the Strom Center and will begin September 14 and continue on September 28 and October 5, with each day running from 6 to 9 pm. A one-day session will be held in Dickinson on September 21 from 8:30 am to 5 pm. There will be a one-day boot camp in Beach on October 13 at the Learning Center from 8:30 am to 5 pm. Medora will be holding a 3-day bootcamp at the DeMores School on October 19, November 2, and November 16 from 6 to 9 pm. Hettinger’s 3-day bootcamp location is TBD and will be a 3-day session that will be on October 7, October 21, and November 4 from 6 to 9 pm. Killdeer’s bootcamp will be at the Dunn County JDA on October 27, November 10, and November 24 from 6 to 9 pm. There will also be web bootcamps in Bowman and Mott/Regent with location and time to be determined.
The cost to attend is $100 per attendee. Scholarships are availble to help cover the cost. To find out more about a scholarship, contact your local JDA/EDA. For more information about the bootcamps, please call the Strom Center at (701) 483-2756. If you would like to attend one of the web bootcamp sessions, register online.

Kim Hayes
Talent Initiative Assistant
Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Nonprofit Training Opportunities

There are different training opportunities available for nonprofit organizations. The best part is there are different types of trainings available. There will be sessions on August 3 in Fargo, August 4 in Bismarck, August 5 in Minot, and August 6 in Grand Forks for nonprofit executive directors, management staff, and those who aspire to these roles called “Managers do things right, while leaders do the right thing”. There will be sessions for nonprofit board members and executive directors called “A nonprofit’s number one asset is its board” on September 14 in Fargo, September 15 in Bismarck, September 16 in Minot, and September 17 in Grand Forks. A final series of sessions will be called “A new, faster approach to strategic planning” which will be for nonprofit executive directors, management staff, community leaders and funders on October 13 in Fargo, October 14 in Bismarck, October 15 in Minot, and October 16 in Grand Forks.

All seminars are only $25 per person. The trainings are being provided by Impact Institute. To register for one of these trainings, visit www.impactgiveback.org or for more information call (701) 271-0263.

Kim Hayes
Talent Initiative Assistant
Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Homemade Butter and Ice Cream Demonstration

The Dickinson Museum Center will be presenting a demonstration on how to make homemade butter and ice cream, tomorrow, July 25, at 10 am. The museum staff will how how to use a butter churn as well as an old-fashioned ice cream maker. The demonstration will take place at the Dickinson Museum Center (adjacent to the Dakota Dinosaur Museum) in Dickinson, ND and is free and open to the public. For more information call the Dickinson Museum Center at (701) 456-6225.

Kim Hayes
Talent Initiative Assistant
Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Strom Center Staff – Sheri Monroe, Business Challenge Administrative Secretary

Sheri Monroe has worked at Dickinson State University since May 2009 as Administrative Secretary for Business Challenge. Sheri is originally from Belfield, ND and has lived in Dickinson for the last 13 years.  She is a Corporate Travel Agent with past work experience with American Express out of Dickinson and Reservation Center out of Agoura Hills, CA.  Sheri is married to Scott Monroe, currently employed with Dynapump.

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