BizTank NonProfit Career Exploration for Students in Delavan, WI

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Welcome to BizTank

about biztank

BizTank is the brainchild of Jeff Peterson, Co-Founder/CEO of Geneva Supply, Inc. It’s an idea that takes the passion from one’s career and enlightens the minds of the communities’ youth, specifically, Junior and Senior high school students.

BizTank is for the dreamers, the planners, the “know-it-alls” and the “I’m-not-quite-sure-I-know-what-I’m-doing-with-my-life” type of kids.

Any kid that’s willing to take a chance towards creating a future they truly enjoy, are welcome.

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Students get exposure to the world of business through a stimulating and interactive program. Guest speakers explain the drive, hard work, the directions their lives have taken, their successes and of course, failures.

BizTank consists of three unique 8-week Seasons throughout the year, meeting once a week on Wednesday nights from 6:30-8:30 PM CST (dinner is provided from 6:00-6:30 PM) and is offered to Junior or Senior students from any local area high school and beyond. Not local? Livestreaming is also available!

Location: 1501 E. Wisconsin St. Delavan, WI 53115

Telephone: (401) BNP-TANK (401-267-8265)

Email: hello@biztanknonprofit.org

When: Wednesdays 6-8:30 PM CST

mission

BizTank's Mission & Vision

We are cultivating a group of driven individuals (or at least kind of driven) that see the value in going above and beyond the classroom requirements, and care enough about their future to try something new and to step outside their comfort zones, because as many of us know,
that’s really where all the fun is!

A WORD

From Our Founder

“As a society, we ask a lot from our high school students. With no real-world experience, we expect them to have life figured out. To know what they want to be when they grow up, and whether to invest tens of thousands of dollars into education. At BizTank, we give students a chance to have experiences and hear stories directly from industry leaders. The next big idea can come from our community and I am blessed to be able to help cultivate those ideas with our BizKids.”

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Spring 2020 Season

April 8th

Jill Allen

Jill is an accomplished business and healthcare executive with progressive experience within Managed Care and Medical Management. Throughout her career, Jill has been cultivating partnerships and building lasting relationships across all business sectors, including Fortune 500 organizations.

April 15th

Tyson Franklin

Tyson has won numerous Australian business awards, written two books, It’s No Secret There’s Money in Podiatry and It’s No Secret There’s Money in Small Business, runs two podcast shows called It’s No Secret with Dr T., and the Podiatry Legends Podcast, is a professional speaker and currently mentors podiatry business owners.

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April 22nd

Tom Stuermer

Tom is Accenture’s Global Managing Director for Ecosystem. In this role Tom is responsible for setting the strategy, forming and elevating strategic partnerships, growing the ecosystem sourcing business, and developing new business opportunities with Accenture’s top partners, defining new, differentiated campaigns, and for enabling the commercial capabilities of Accenture to drive that mutual success.

April 29th

Tony Goff

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May 6th

Jerry Jendusa

Jerry co-founded STUCK Management, STUCK Fund 1, and STUCK Coaching to follow his passion of helping small businesses grow by giving back to entrepreneurs. He does this by telling the story of how he grew his company, EMTEQ, from a basement start-up to an international 100M business, and what lessons he learned along that journey.

May 13th

Jason Feifer

Jason Feifer is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine, and host of two podcasts: Problem Solvers, about entrepreneurs solving unexpected problems in their business, and Pessimists Archive, a history of unfounded fears of innovation.

May 20th

Brad Arnett

Brad Arnett has been working professionally with athletes of all ages to meet their goals for
more than 20 years. He was a four year
letter winner for the football team at the University of
Wisconsin
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Whitewater, two of which as a starter, earned all
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conference and All
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American
honors his senior season, and was inducted into UW
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Whitewater Athletic Hall of Fame in the
fall of 2013. In l
ate 1993 Brad began his career as a strength and conditioning coach for the
University of Wisconsin
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Whitewater. After completing his degree in Corporate and
Community Heath in 1995 at Whitewater and his Master’s degree in Kinesiology in 1996 at the
Univer
sity of Minnesota, Brad remained at the University and worked for 6 years as the
Director of Olympic sport strength and conditioning program. Brad is CSCS certified and a
USAW club coach.

May 27th

Katrina Cravy

With more than 20 years of media experience, Katrina is now a member of the National Speakers Association. She’s on a personal mission to help teams and executives be their best on camera and communicate with confidence during the good times and the bad. Her book, “On-Air – Insider Secrets to Attract the Media and Get Free Publicity” promises to make you think like the media.

June 3rd

TBD

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OUR PROGRAM

A Message From Our Alumni

Who better to explain what BizTank means to our participants than actual people who joined the program? Watch the video below to understand the impact BizTank has on the future of our community.

Kids In The Tank Podcast

BizKids create their own episodes for the Kids in the Tank podcast. They research the guest speaker and his/her business, ask the questions, record, and with the help of the BizTank team, edit and produce.

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Scholarships

All participants who successfully complete the BizTank program receive a ($250-$500/per season depending on funding) scholarship towards any type of continuing education.

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Career Exploration

BizTank is here to build bridges between employers and students. We want to spark an interest in these kids and help them prepare for the real world, and we hope that local businesses are willing to partner with us by offering them opportunities to do a job shadow, an internship, or possibly, summer employment.

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BizTank Speaker Series

Tune in live at 7:00 PM CST every Wednesday, while in season, to hear the night’s Keynote Speaker. Not able to view the presentation live? View our full access, on-demand library of past speakers.

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in the news

Our News & Announcements

We always have a lot going on and we are thankful to everyone that helps make BizTank a reality!

Tyson E. Franklin

Tyson E. Franklin is a Queensland University of Technology graduate and over the past 30 years has opened, sold, taken over and relocated …

Jill Allen, RN, MS | Cultivating Partnerships

Jill Allen is an accomplished business and healthcare executive with progressive experience within Managed Care and Medical Management. Throughout her career, Jill has …

Gloria Heiss is passionate about literacy! TankTalk presentations had to be at least 3 minutes and could be about anything.

Literacy… My Passion by Gloria Heiss

We try to help prepare the participants/kids, a.k.a. BizKids, for real life experiences in a way that they may not realize they’re learning, and although they …

Tank Talk Free Personal Branding Seminar At BizHub October 2

Come join us on Tuesday, October 2 from 6-8 for a free seminar on Personal Branding! This event is for anyone looking to …

We took the BizTank summer interns along and hooked them up with job shadows and educational days at both Amazon and Microsoft.

BizTank Interns Take on Seattle

Geneva Supply’s CEO, Jeff Peterson, the product managers, and the digital marketing team had several meetings at Amazon …

BizHub Opens in Whitewater Innovation Center

What Is BizHub? Geneva Supply, Inc. has launched BizHub to create an innovative and energized workspace by partnering with the UW-Whitewater and the …

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We are a non-profit organization relying on funding support for scholarships, technical equipment (laptops, etc.), and on-topic field trips. We believe the next big idea can come from a kid within the community, your community, so please consider supporting us so that we can help them, dream that dream.

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