A local entrepreneurship program is recruiting its next batch of students for the school year 2026-27.
Melanie Brown is the facilitator for the Central Illinois CEO program that brings in students from Blue Ridge, Clinton, Maroa-Forsyth, and Warrensburg-Latham High Schools. She indicates recruitment is underway for next year's group of students.
Brown emphasizes the program is not necessarily for students with the highest grade point averages or those students who are headed to four-year universities. She is hoping students who want to learn and grow will consider the program.
Students can also attend an 'experience CEO day' where students get the chance to be a part of a classroom day with the current CEO students. Brown notes that the classroom day for the CEO program isn't your traditional classroom day.
Brown calls the program a safe place to fail. Students establish a class business in the first semester and an individual business in the second semester. She points out that there are a multitude of lessons they learn along the way.
There is still plenty of time for students who will be entering either their junior or senior years of high school to join the CEO program. Visit centralillinoisceo.com for all the information, or find them on Facebook and Instagram.
