{"id":49358,"date":"2025-03-25T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=49358"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:33:02","slug":"american-indigenous-business-leaders-place-first-in-business-plan-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/25\/american-indigenous-business-leaders-place-first-in-business-plan-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"American Indigenous Business Leaders Place First In Business Plan Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bemidji State University&rsquo;s American Indigenous Business Leaders (AIBL) team achieved first place in the university division of the Business Plan Competition at the National Business &amp; Leadership Student Conference this month. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The winning team included students Justin Keezer from Waubun, MN; Dax Anderson from Red Lake, MN; Nathaniel McDonald from Bemidji, MN; Carter Eckblad from Bemidji, MN; Mia Wilke from Belcourt, ND; Joshua Briski, Jr. from Cass Lake, MN and Caitlyn Lueck from Cass Lake, MN. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They were guided by mentor Robert &ldquo;Bob&rdquo; Tessier, a senior manager in hot beverages at Sodexo Supply Management, who was connected to them through AIBL and provided valuable support throughout the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Their success highlights their dedication, innovation and leadership in business planning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bemidji State University&rsquo;s American Indigenous Business Leaders (AIBL) team achieved first place in the university division of the Business Plan Competition at the National Business &amp; Leadership Student Conference this month. The winning team included students Justin Keezer from Waubun, MN; Dax Anderson from Red Lake, MN; Nathaniel McDonald from Bemidji, MN; Carter Eckblad from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":49360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1022,1046,681,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsu-in-the-news","category-indigenous-sustainability-studies","category-news-updates","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49358\/revisions\/49365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}