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VIDEO: Sharks Decide on Business Plans

In an effort to prepare them for their presentations, teachers have organized a "Shark Tank" competition for Minnetonka students.

Video and text from Minnetonka Schools:

VANTAGE students are close to presenting their real world business projects to their clients.

In an effort to prepare them for their presentations, teachers have organized a "Shark Tank" competition. Students had to write their own business plans, financials and present them panels of professionals ranging from educators to private equity investors.

The "Sharks" decided if the students would advance and provide them insight.

When the Excelsior Bay Company won the competition, VANTAGE students had been exposed to three rounds of "Shark" assessment and a large amount of entrepreneurial know how.


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