This week, 18 student entrepreneurs had the opportunity to pitch their business ideas in a real-life “Shark Tank” competition with a $100,000 prize on the line at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Analise Erlbacher speaks during a pitch for her team’s startup, Buoy, on Thursday in the Willa Cather Dining Center on the University of Nebraska City Campus. Nine teams from the Raikes School Startup Studio pitched their ideas to a panel of judges to compete for five prizes of $100,000 each from Invest Nebraska.
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PhotoFiles: Inside University High School in Lincoln
Counseling
Director of Student Personnel Services Berverly Mosher counsels Jeanne Groth and Gary Nelson about college options in January 1961.
Frank Morrison
Gov. Frank Morrison speaks to a group of students in September 1961.
Cheerleaders
The newly selected cheerleaders for the 1957-1958 season pose for a photo in front of the school. From left to right, Sharon Pickel, Beth Dering, Pat Sieck, Kathy Craiglow, Marilyn Miller and Lynette Bonow.
Caricature shirts
In November 1962, bandmaster Orlan Thomas is surrounded by band performers, (from left) Andrea Block, Kathy Deines, Martha Porter and Dan Minchow, each wearing a shirt stenciled with a caricature of Thomas on it.
Thunder Thornton and Don Bryant
In Nov. 1961, Husker Bill "Thunder" Thornton, who would go on to become the Huskers' first black football captain, and The Star sports editor Don Bryant field questions from the University High School journalism class.
Auto mechanics
Monica Lewis (left) and Chris Aaroun in an auto mechanics course in January 1967.
Cheering
Fans cheer in February 1959.
Commencement
Bob Knight, Rita Knight, Barbara Vest and Margie Giebelhaus, who had attended classes together since kindergarten, receive their diplomas in June 1962. There were 59 students in the 1962 University High School graduating class.
'My Fair Lady'
In University High's April 1967 production of "My Fair Lady," Bob Hiskey, playing Freddy Hynsford Hill, tries to win the heart of Kath Gove's Eliza Doolittle.
Dining hall
Students study and eat in the dining room in 1955.
Hardware
In 1960, the University High band took a superior rating at the Nebraska High School marching band festival for the second straight year. From left, Director Orlan Thomas poses with band president Keith Tim Butts and drum major Keith McCreight in November 1960.
Reunion
Before a reunion in 1967, Bob Weichert, Jeryce Hennecke and Mary Francis Danley prepare signs.
University rendering
A 1954 rendering of the university.
Commencement
University High seniors march into the Nebraska Union ballroom for commencement exercises in June 1965.
