Florida Celebrates National Entrepreneurship Week

 Doug Wetzel is the winner from Florida for the National Council on Economic Education's essay contest in celebration of National Entrepreneurship Week. Students were asked to write a 500 word essay about an entrepreneur from their state whom they felt deserved recognition.  Doug, a 9th grade student, wrote his essay on Anthony Rossi, the founder of Tropicana, and he is a student in Mrs. Sandra Yancey's class in the Academy of Entrepreneurship at Buchholz High School.

 Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College in Asheville, NC Celebrates National Entrepreneurship Week

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, (A-B Tech), Asheville, NC, sponsored several events through the Business Administration Department. Students from four classes at Asheville-High School participated in an all day business start-up simulation using REAL Enterprises’ curriculum.

Wisconsin Young Entrepreneurs of the Year winners

 Business Plan Competition at Brooks High School, Chicago

Wall of Fame featuring community Entrepreneurs

North Carolina's Haywood Community College celebrates National Entrepreneurship Week

Haywood Early College students had their first taste of the entrepreneurial world from viewing videos of local entrepreneurs. After viewing the videos, students discussed various aspects of each one such as the similarities and differences, the local competition, and the challenges each business owner faced. The class also discussed what it takes to be an entrepreneur and these adjectives were used to describe the requirements: risk, courage, dedication, commitment, capital, high energy, contacts. Videos from HCC's series "Focus on Haywood County Entrepreneurs" available to be viewed at the Apple iTunes Stores as a podcast.  The link to view the videos using the RSS reader is at http://www.haywood.edu/ent.rss. 

Students Interviewing Local Entrepreneurs from Coldwater Michigan

Branch Area Career Center Entrepreneurs Wall of Fame

Michigan Governor's Proclamation for National Entrepreneurship Week

1st Annual Buffalo, New York Business Idol Competition
The Buffalo Public Schools Career and Technical Education has partnered with the Small Business Development Center, Bryant and Stratton College, Empower Youth Entrepreneurs and MattiRouse, International to offer the 1st Annual Buffalo Business Idol Competition to celebrate National Entrepreneurship Week. 2008 Semi Finalist and Judges pictured below.