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Rural Voices Contest Still Going Strong after 10 Years

Rural Voices Youth Contest LogoThe NCRPC is once again offering the Rural Voices Youth Contest for high school seniors in North Central Kansas – marking ten years since the contest began.

The contest was created to give a voice to youth in North Central Kansas and to promote thoughtful reflection on rural Kansas. Students may submit a written essay of a short video based on the year’s contest theme of “Rural Kansas…My Legacy.”

The top entry in each category will receive a cash award of $850 and will be published the EyeonKansas.org site, an affiliate of the NCRPC. More than $15,000 has been awarded to high school seniors from around the region since 2006.

The contest deadline is November 16, 2015. Click here for additional contest information and registration details.


A New Look at Entrepreneurship

ELI Workshop

ELI Workshop

Several NCRPC staffers recently spent a day learning about the Entrepreneurial Mindset. The day provided a new look at what entrepreneurship means and how important the early phase of “searching” is to business development. The curriculum, the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program, is being utilized at several community colleges and small business development centers in North America. Entrepreneurial thinking is a newish concept for education today in that entrepreneurs have a mindset allowing them to identify problems in their environment, to take action, to test possible solutions, and then ultimately to manifest something that will provide value for other people. To learn more, check out their website https://elimindset.com/ or read the book, “Who Owns the Ice House?” also available at the site and at many popular outlets.


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