For Immediate Release – December 5, 2022

Contact:
Brian Otten, Marketing Manager
Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce
715-848-5947 | botten@wausauchamber.com

Demo Day for The Branch to highlight efforts of student teams in fall session

WAUSAU — The Branch will host another Demo Day on Friday, December 9 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Northcentral Technical College’s Room E101 in Wausau. The event will include presentations by a team of college students to the leadership of the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce and Greater Wausau Prosperity Partnership. This event is open to the public.

Beginning in October, students in The Branch have worked as a team on an innovation challenge related to the Powerhouse property on Clark Island in downtown Wausau. The fall session includes five students representing the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, the UWSP at Wausau and Wausau West High School.

“The Branch asks students from around the region to solve complex problems and to be entrepreneurial while connecting to the companies that need this local talent.” said Dave Eckmann, President/CEO of the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce. “We live in a very talent-competitive economy and will for the next 25 years, making this program very important to develop and retain the young members of our community.”

The Branch is a workforce development initiative introduced by the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce, Northcentral Technical College and Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. in 2016. The program is an entrepreneurial skills accelerator which is designed to retain talent in central Wisconsin. The program’s previous Demo Day events can be viewed on The Branch’s YouTube channel.

AROW Global Corp, Ansay & Associates LLC, Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I., the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce, Incredible Bank, M3 Insurance, North Central Health Care, Ruder Ware LLSC and Westphal Staffing Inc are sponsors of the program. UWSP at Wausau and the Wausau River District are program partners.

Those interested in attending Demo Day should register at WausauChamber.com or RSVP by Wednesday, December 7 to Lukas Lindner at the Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce at llindner@wausauchamber.com or 715-848-5966.

For more information on the program, visit TheBranchWI.com.

Caption: The Branch will host a Demo Day on Friday, December 9 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Northcentral Technical College’s Room E101 in Wausau.

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