SUBMITTED by Elizabeth Terry, Sodus Central School District (12-May-2009)
The Sodus Central School District is excited to announce its plans to pilot the Young Entrepreneurs Academy in Sodus High School, in the fall of 2009. The Young Entrepreneurs Academy or YEA!, is an innovative program that guides students through the process of starting their own real business or social movement.
Created at the University of Rochester in 2004, the program began as a weekly class taught by a local entrepreneur who ushers students through the actual steps it takes to create a business or social movement, from the ground up.
In 2009 after the addition of the program's high school model, the program embarked on a national expansion and has since become a 501c3, non-profit corporation. The high school model allows for secondary educational facilities to purchase the program and offer it as a credit bearing elective during the school day.
During the program’s inaugural year at Sodus High School, YEA! will launch one class at Sodus High School that will be available to students in grades 11 and 12. The class will fit into the regular school day and taught by an entrepreneurial minded instructor.
Over the course of the year long program, students work in close cooperation with local leaders of industry, community members, and educators to develop ideas and objectives, write business plans, pitch potential investors, obtain funding, register with government agencies, open bank accounts and much more. Students as a class take field trips to local businesses, hearing first-hand from local entrepreneurs. All lessons are hands-on and business mentors, graphic designers, and local entrepreneurs support the students throughout the program.
The Young Entrepreneurs Academy at Sodus High School is now accepting applications for the YEA! Class of 2010. The deadline to apply is May 22, 2009. For more information, call Mrs. Terry at (315) 483-2331 X 6139.
About the Young Entrepreneurs Academy
The Young Entrepreneurs Academy, or YEA!™, is a groundbreaking educational program that takes students in grades six through twelve through the process of starting and running real businesses over the course of a full academic year. Students work in close cooperation with local leaders of industry, community members, and educators to develop ideas and objectives, write business plans, pitch potential investors, obtain funding, register with governmental agencies, develop their brand identity and much more! By the end of the class, students own and operate fully functioning businesses that can be carried on after graduation. Students learn to make a job--not just take a job! YEA!’s™ direct mission is to help students embrace their passion, energy, creativity and talents, launch a venture, and view entrepreneurship as synonymous with success and freedom. In 2008, YEA!™ “spun-off” from the University of Rochester, where it was formed in 2004 with support from the Kauffman Foundation, to create its own not-for-profit corporation, YEA! Inc., which is currently launching sites in colleges, universities and high schools across the country to provide comprehensive, exciting entrepreneurship education, leadership development and innovation training to youth between the ages of 11 and 18 years old in the United States thereby making the program available to students at a variety of geographical regions, and providing them with skills they need to succeed in the 21st Century. For more information about the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, please call 585.272.3535 or visit www.yeausa.org.
Begin as a student and finish as a CEO!©
The Sodus Central School District is excited to announce its plans to pilot the Young Entrepreneurs Academy in Sodus High School, in the fall of 2009. The Young Entrepreneurs Academy or YEA!, is an innovative program that guides students through the process of starting their own real business or social movement.
Created at the University of Rochester in 2004, the program began as a weekly class taught by a local entrepreneur who ushers students through the actual steps it takes to create a business or social movement, from the ground up.
In 2009 after the addition of the program's high school model, the program embarked on a national expansion and has since become a 501c3, non-profit corporation. The high school model allows for secondary educational facilities to purchase the program and offer it as a credit bearing elective during the school day.
During the program’s inaugural year at Sodus High School, YEA! will launch one class at Sodus High School that will be available to students in grades 11 and 12. The class will fit into the regular school day and taught by an entrepreneurial minded instructor.
Over the course of the year long program, students work in close cooperation with local leaders of industry, community members, and educators to develop ideas and objectives, write business plans, pitch potential investors, obtain funding, register with government agencies, open bank accounts and much more. Students as a class take field trips to local businesses, hearing first-hand from local entrepreneurs. All lessons are hands-on and business mentors, graphic designers, and local entrepreneurs support the students throughout the program.
The Young Entrepreneurs Academy at Sodus High School is now accepting applications for the YEA! Class of 2010. The deadline to apply is May 22, 2009. For more information, call Mrs. Terry at (315) 483-2331 X 6139.
About the Young Entrepreneurs Academy
The Young Entrepreneurs Academy, or YEA!™, is a groundbreaking educational program that takes students in grades six through twelve through the process of starting and running real businesses over the course of a full academic year. Students work in close cooperation with local leaders of industry, community members, and educators to develop ideas and objectives, write business plans, pitch potential investors, obtain funding, register with governmental agencies, develop their brand identity and much more! By the end of the class, students own and operate fully functioning businesses that can be carried on after graduation. Students learn to make a job--not just take a job! YEA!’s™ direct mission is to help students embrace their passion, energy, creativity and talents, launch a venture, and view entrepreneurship as synonymous with success and freedom. In 2008, YEA!™ “spun-off” from the University of Rochester, where it was formed in 2004 with support from the Kauffman Foundation, to create its own not-for-profit corporation, YEA! Inc., which is currently launching sites in colleges, universities and high schools across the country to provide comprehensive, exciting entrepreneurship education, leadership development and innovation training to youth between the ages of 11 and 18 years old in the United States thereby making the program available to students at a variety of geographical regions, and providing them with skills they need to succeed in the 21st Century. For more information about the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, please call 585.272.3535 or visit www.yeausa.org.
Begin as a student and finish as a CEO!©
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