Empowering students through entrepreneurship and design thinking — from edutopia.org by Kim Saxe
Excerpt:
Entrepreneurship in pre-collegiate schools is spreading like wildfire! In 2011, a venture capitalist parent and I decided to pilot an Intro to Entrepreneurship elective for our seventh and eighth graders at The Nueva School. We were stunned when 23 of the roughly 100 students in those grades signed up for the course. This past year, we actually had to turn away seven students who wanted to repeat the class. Clearly, we had hit a chord with today’s youth.
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Part 2 of this blog will focus on synthesizing and envisioning solutions, the miracle of iteration, and some of the personal transformations by students who participated in the program.