Cross County Hosts Inventure Day Put on by UNL Extension

  • This team of Cross County eighth graders won the judges’ choice award with Seize 360. Pictured are front row (l to r) Ema Dickey and Matthew Frazier, back row (l to r) mentor Maggie Rasmussen, Britney Arcos-Moore, Sawyer Anderson and Nathaniel Avers.
    This team of Cross County eighth graders won the judges’ choice award with Seize 360. Pictured are front row (l to r) Ema Dickey and Matthew Frazier, back row (l to r) mentor Maggie Rasmussen, Britney Arcos-Moore, Sawyer Anderson and Nathaniel Avers.
  • Here is a team from Shelby-Rising City giving their quick pitch presentation. Pictured is Melanie Sanchez, Kendall Nickolite, Logan Lindsey, Hayden Reznicek, and Kenny Pearson.
    Here is a team from Shelby-Rising City giving their quick pitch presentation. Pictured is Melanie Sanchez, Kendall Nickolite, Logan Lindsey, Hayden Reznicek, and Kenny Pearson.

    The University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension Office held Inventure Day at Cross County School on Monday, April 11th. Over 70 eighth graders from Cross County, Osceola and Shelby-Rising City participated along with twelve community mentors from those three communities.

    Entrepreneurship is crucial to the economic vitality of all communities. Research shows that educational programs focused on non-cog…