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Small business tackling big world challenges
While there are many arguments for the value realized by a community when an entrepreneur starts ...
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Why I help El Dorado inmates work for second chances
As a program provider at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, I teach cognitive and life skills p...
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Fredericksburg Students to Grow Business Skills with New Entrepreneurship Program
FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS – Youth Entrepreneurs (YE), a national nonprofit organization, has la...
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Youth Entrepreneurs: Teaching students about business, with a local focus
The phrase “youth entrepreneurs” often brings to mind technologically savvy young people in hoodi...
What We Teach
Professional Development for Educators and Immersive Experiences for Students Yield High Dividends
Given the demands required of current students to succeed in the future workplace, the 21st centu...
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Educator and Student Summits Foster Transformations in Detroit
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Youth Entrepreneurs exists to empower and mobilize educator...
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Field Trips: Opportunities to Increase Graduation Rates, Future Salary
In recent years, lower classroom budgets, standardized testing and increasingly rigid education r...
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Win-Win in the Classroom
If you want to be the kind of educator students remember and cherish, you have to take the time t...
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Professional Development with a Side of Transformation
During the transformational experience of YE Summit, alumni were given many opportunities to netw...
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Why my support is a moral obligation: A Partner's Story
For many of us, our mission to transform the lives of young people is personal. For Bruce Lee, it...
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Passion to Purpose: An Educator's Story
Josh Patterson isn’t a traditional educator. Two years ago, the Chaparral School District&r...
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A Summer to Remember: An Alumna's Story
When Victoria Xayaphet, a recent graduate from Truman High School in Independence, Missouri, arri...
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Class unlocks entrepreneurial thinking
Youth Entrepreneurs is inspiring entrepreneurial thinking inside the El Dorado Correctional Facil...
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Teaching Entrepreneurship is Experiential
The process of guiding students from concept to comprehension is a unique journey. Talented educa...
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Insiders: The Alumni Helping Make the YE Summit a Reality
This summer, Youth Entrepreneurs is hosting the second annual YE Summit in Detroit, Michigan. The...
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The Guardian of YE Summit
From July 15-19, 300 Youth Entrepreneurs students will participate in the second annual YE Summit...
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Opinion: Summer is season for entrepreneurship
While I understand and support the need to use standard instruction and testing to make sure our ...
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The Big Idea 2019: Bigger Than Ever
On May 29, twenty Youth Entrepreneurs students from around the country flew into Detroit, Michiga...
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The Tennis Ball that Will Change The Way You Teach
In Youth Entrepreneurs, experiential learning is at the heart of our curriculum. By creating acti...
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Enid Student Wins Grant at Entrepreneurship Expo U.S. Nationals Presented By Youth Entrepreneurs
DETROIT, MICH. - Kynlee Skaggs, a student at Enid High School, was awarded $2,500 at the National...
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Fort Worth Students Wins Grant at Entrepreneurship Expo U.S. Nationals Presented By Youth Entrepreneurs
DETROIT, MICH. - Darius Ford, Zarian Thompson and Kameron Sanders, all students at Young Men&rsqu...
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Hogeland Student Wins Grant at Entrepreneurship Expo U.S. Nationals Presented By Youth Entrepreneurs
DETROIT, MICH. - Cord Schneider, a student at Chinook High School, was awarded $6,000 at the Nati...
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Kansas City Area Students Win Grants At Entrepreneurship Expo U.S. Nationals Presented By Youth Entrepreneurs
DETROIT, MICH. - Kiley Daniels, a student at Liberty North High School in Kansas City, Missouri, ...
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Wichita Students Win Grants At Entrepreneurship Expo U.S. Nationals Presented By Youth Entrepreneurs
DETROIT, MICH. - Reema Moussa, a student at The Independent School, was awarded $12,500; Nick Jac...
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Two Students Who Shined at the YE Pitch Competition
Last year’s The Big Idea competition has grown to become the National Invention Convention ...
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YE’s Partnership with the STEMIE Coalition Grows Stronger
In 2018, Youth Entrepreneurs partnered with the STEMIE Coalition (STEM + Invention + Entrepreneur...
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Student of the Month: Auhneiyce Grissom
Auhneiyce Grissom, a student at Hutchinson High School in Hutchinson, Kansas, wanted to find a cl...
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Before Aaron Cummings became a famous Youth Entrepreneurs teacher at Watford City High Scho...
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Entrepreneurship education inspiring second chances
At one prison in rural El Dorado, Kansas, two educators have teamed up to help inmates prepare to...
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Artificial Intelligence and Putting Principles before Profits
Profit is a powerful motivator. But some things are more important than revenue. This story detai...
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Young Business Minds Test Their Products
The students in the Youth Entrepreneurship Program set up shop in the school hallway where studen...
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River Rouge students launch fashion lines, cosmetics brands, more at 'Market Day'
Selling food, cosmetics, clothing and home goods, 27 pop-up businesses simultaneously opened in R...
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Detroit’s Youth Entrepreneurs, Teaching High School Student The Art of Entrepreneurship
Looking for an engaging elective course and alumni program that prepares students for success in ...
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Youth Entrepreneurs bringing National Summit to Detroit Key corporate sponsors on board to support the future of entrepreneurship, innovation and personal transformation
DETROIT, MICH. - More than 300 high school youth from across the country who have graduated from ...
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Student of the Month: Lucero Laborin
Across the nation, hundreds of Youth Entrepreneurs students are celebrating everyday successes, b...
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River Rouge students learn entrepreneurship, sell goods during 'Market Day'
Market Day at River Rouge High School
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Preparing Students for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet
“Many students in today’s world haven’t been given the latitude to experiment. ...
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Three Resources for Entrepreneurial Educators
Youth Entrepreneurs exists to inspire a better future, equipping young people with the values and...
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How an educator connection can change everything
James Harris was a 4.0 student … who went to a youth detention center for possession of ma...
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Fyre Festival: The value of sound judgment
In the spring of 2017, “luxury music festival” goers converged in the Bahamas for a s...