Applications to Young Entrepreneurs Academy Available

June 14, 2012

Frisco ISD students who want to learn about what it takes to be an entrepreneurs or start a company are invited to apply for the next Young Entrepreneur Academy, a program sponsored for FISD students through the Frisco Chamber of Commerce.

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 the Frisco Chamber of Commerce at (972) 335-9522 or visit www.yeausa.org.

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2012-2013 GT ILA Novel List


6th Grade

The View from Saturday by E.L. Koinsberg

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi

 

 

7th Grade

Downsiders by Neal Shusterman

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton or Tangerine by Edward Bloor

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

 

 

8th Grade

Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Peace Like a River by Lief Enger

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare