Ultra Machining Company COO Acts as Shark Tank Panelist
Ultra Machining Company Chief Operating Officer Jaci Dukowitz represents the business sector as a panelist during the annual Minnesota State Shark Tank Open.
Ultra Machining Company Chief Operating Officer Jaci Dukowitz represents the business sector as a panelist during the annual Minnesota State Shark Tank Open. Students, faculty and staff who are also inventors, entrepreneurs and trailblazers will convene for the Shark Tank “show down” with a cross-sectional panel of academic, non-profit and business leaders on Thursday, April 4 at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, MN.
Each year, representatives from 37 colleges and universities statewide create a wave of excitement as they reimagine education. Faculty, staff and students go before expert panels (the sharks) and pitch-in their creative and innovative ideas competing to win up to $25,000 in funding to financially further their endeavor. Funded projects aim to address obstacles to student success by using existing technologies, resources or practices in innovative ways.
UMC, a family-owned business based in Monticello, MN, began as a small-garage start up more than 50 years ago. Today, the company is a national precision-manufacturing leader producing complex parts for medical, aerospace and commercial industries.
For more information, please consider:
Event tickets and registration;
2019 Shark Tank Open video;
Minnesota State Educational Innovation event page;
Details on 2019 Shark Tank Innovation funding;
Jaci Dukowitz, UMC COO.
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