Here at BYU-Idaho, we have taken the challenge and are working to finalize a service project for the end of this week. The CEO organization will be holding a workshop of sorts for the local school children helping them understand the process by which a product is built and the cost associated with building it.

This week, November 15 - 21st has been deemed Global Entrepreneurship Week. The Kauffman foundation, the largest non-profit organization in the pursuit of entrepreneurial support globally has created a week that is desiged to promote and highlight the service and incredible innovations of entrepreneurs' worldwide.

Here at BYU-Idaho, we have taken the challenge and are working to finalize a service project for the end of this week. The CEO organization will be holding a workshop of sorts for the local school children helping them understand the process by which a product is built and the cost associated with building it. We will be using a innovative software developed by the Acton MBA program to teach their MBA students one this to look for when producing a new product. The program, RoboRush, is a online game for what seems to be little children although its insight is powerful while engaging and fun for the children. We are very hopeful that this project will work out. Click here for additional information about Global Entrepreneurship Week. For More on CEO and our upcoming service project, please check back soon. Additionally, you can join us on Facebook for continuous updates.

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REXBURG — Now citizens can vote not just for politicians, but also to help "save" the Romance Theatre.

The Rexburg theater has been nominated for Hampton Hotels' Save-A-Landmark program in 2011.

The voting process is already under way at www.hamptonlandmarks.com and will continue through Nov. 30. The prize is $30,000, which will go to the restoration of the winning structure.

In Idaho, the Romance is competing against the Potato Museum in Blackfoot and the Rock Creek Station, a cabin on the historic Oregon Trail near Twin Falls.

Winners will be announced the first week in December, just in time to coincide with International Volunteerism Day.

Restoration of the historic theater is already under way with a Saving America's Treasures grant.

The goal is to restore the facade and interior to its original look.

Local Romance Theater Committee members say the venue is planned as a focal point for the performing arts in the upper valley.

The Romance was built in 1917 and was originally known as the Rex in the days of vaudeville and silent films. It was remodeled and renamed in 1935 and began showing movies with sound.

After the Teton Dam broke in 1976 and flooded the theater along with the town, it was remodeled once again and became known as the Westwood Theater.

Later, with only a single screen competing with newer multiplex theaters, the Westwood closed in 2001.

The city bought it in 2005, and restoration has been picking up the pace since then.

The restoration committee hopes that citizens will help the theater gain more votes than a cabin or potato museum.

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Posted: Friday, November 5, 2010 11:21 pm | Updated: 8:21 am, Mon Nov 8, 2010.

JOSEPH LAW jlaw@uvsj.com