By Sally Paulson
The Bismarck-Mandan Student Chamber of Commerce is searching for several students to serve on its board for the 2011-12 academic year. The board consists of local high school juniors and seniors who are interested in learning more about their community.
Students involved in this board focus on the same issues that the Chamber’s board of directors focus on, such as transportation, government affairs, local issues, education and economic development. Students are privy to meetings with local and state officials and company CEO’s and owners. The students get to ask …

The Bismarck-Mandan Student Chamber of Commerce announces the recipient of its inaugural scholarship. Mandan High School Senior Thomas Peterson received the Student Chamber Scholarship during a school assembly on May 11.
According to Student Chamber staff coordinator Sally Paulson, the scholarship was created as a way to recognize students for their active participation on the Student Chamber and for their leadership tendencies outside of the Chamber.
“Our intent is to recognize an outstanding local student and to provide some financial relief for their first year of post-secondary school,” Paulson says.
The $500 scholarship …

By Kylie Blanchard, Clearwater Communications

Connecting business and education is key to a community’s success and educating the community’s youth to be tomorrow’s business leaders helps to ensure its vitality. The Bismarck-Mandan Chamber of Commerce plays an active role in facilitating relationships between business and education, and promotes and coordinates many business education programs throughout Bismarck-Mandan.
 
“One of these entities can’t exist without the other,” says Sally Paulson, Bismarck-Mandan Chamber program director. “The Chamber has made this connection a priority and has even included it in our strategic plan.”
She says this …

The Bismarck-Mandan Student Chamber of Commerce had an exciting opportunity to meet with and ask questions of local educational leaders on Jan. 6 at Sunrise Elementary.
Dr. Larry Skogen from Bismarck State College, Erin Green from Rasmussen College, Wilfred Volesky from Mandan Public Schools and Scott Halvorson from the BPS School Board shared their time and expertise with the Student Chamber members.
Panelists spoke about daily challenges, school and higher education costs, alternatives to traditional learning, and the potential changes that current legislative initiatives may bring. The leaders also shared who they …

Can you name a person who has had a tremendous impact on you as a leader? What is one characteristic you believe every leader should possess?
These were a couple of the questions posed to community leaders at the first Bismarck-Mandan Student Chamber meeting on Friday, Oct. 15. Leaders Annette Behm- Caldwell, owner of Open Road Honda, Doran Schwartz, CFO for MDU Resources, and Terry Kraft, owner of American Family Insurance/Terry Kraft Agency, were the panelists for this young leadership group. The three did a fantastic job not only answering the …