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Minot Daily News SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2020

Education

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Minot State students pursuing dreams in

ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB By ANDREA JOHNSON

Staff Writer ajohnson@minotdailynews.com A club for entrepreneurs at Minot State University has long been helping students to pursue their dreams of becoming their own boss. In March – weeks before face-to-face classes at universities and K-12 schools were called off due to the coronavirus pandemic – club officers Madison Tiedman and Juliana Alarcon Diaz and club adviser Chuck Barney said local businessmen and women have shared their experiences with people in the club. Owners of restaurants, breweries and bakeries, people in property management or who run a travel agency and some who have more than one business have spoken to the club. Tiedman said the club has tried to invite speakers with diverse backgrounds so every type of interest is represented. Tiedman is interested in working as a consultant for the bridal industry and has researched wedding trends for 20-somethings. Entrepreneurs who have spoken to the club have taught her the importance of planning for different eventualities and of doing the needed research into things she might not have thought of previously, such as research into intellectual property rights and obtaining a liquor license for a business. Alarcon Diaz is interested in starting a business that would sell authentic bubble and boba tea, a drink that is popular in shops on the West Coast.

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Juliana Alarcon Diaz, right, and her business partner, Hiromu Ogahara, left, have come up with an idea for a bubble/boba tea business called Megami Drinks Bar. There is one authentic bubble tea shop in Fargo, said Alarcon Diaz. She said the flavored drink is sweet and, while it is not necessarily healthy, it is fun and tasty. Alarcon Diaz said she has

learned that an entrepreneurship cannot be afraid of taking calculated risks when launching a business. Planning and the location of the business is also important and the marketing for the business will be different

based on whether it is an online business only or has a physical location. Barney said another member of the club is interested in launching his own See MSU — Page 3

Aviation tech students learn to

F LY

HIGH

By ANDREA JOHNSON

Staff Writer ajohnson@minotdailynews.com Students in the aviation technology program at Minot High School will be flying high thanks to the opportunities they have had to study piloting an aircraft while they are still in school. In February, a month before schools in the state were closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, juniors and seniors in Meric Murphy’s class were seated in front of simulators preparing for a symposium that was to be held in early March. Students were practicing the flight simulations that they would demonstrate at the symposium. One group of students had mastered a flight that would save the lives of all the passengers on United Airlines Flight 232 that, in reality, crashed into the gateway in Sioux City, Iowa in 1989, killing 112 people and injuring 171 after its engine exploded in midair while they were at cruising altitude at 37,000 feet. Students explained that a fan disk exploded and took out the hydraulic lines on the airplanes. The pilot’s ability to control the plane had been severely compromised and the pilot was forced to crash land at Sioux City. Murphy tasked the students with improving on the outcome faced by the actual pilot at Sioux City and to land the plane without killing anybody. Students in the class had initially thought they would reroute the plane to Edwards Air Force Base but then decided the plane would not have had enough fuel to make it there. Instead, they decided to reroute the plane to Minot See FLY — Page 2

Photos by Andrea Johnson/MDN

TOP LEFT and ABOVE: Minot High School aviation technology class students use flight simulators to learn how to handle serious situations.

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