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** Thoughts and ideas from Leah's query on social entrepreneurship in high schools: ** ======  Here are a few of the responses we received to the following question about social enterprise programs targeting teens: "I'm gathering data about High School Social Entrepreneurship  classes/programs, particularly those aligned with or based upon youth leadership development and or college preparation and access. I am already aware of a program at Penn. State University. I would appreciate knowing   about similar curricula and programs."  1) From Patsy Benveniste < pbenveni@chicagobotanic.org >  The Chicago Botanic Garden runs the Green Youth Farm, a youth leadership development program, in multiple Chicago area locations. See @http://www.chicagobotanic.org/community/index.php and click on GYF.  Students get defined entrpreneruial/business skills training through operation of farmer's markets. WIC demos and sales and business plan development for product/services. The Garden also runs a science education continuum for middle-high school students, Science First and College First. College First is strongly focused on college prep, application and matriculation--see @http://www.chicagobotanic.org/ctl/collegefirst

 Patsy Benveniste  VP, Community Education Programs  Chicago Botanic Garden  2) From Darian Rodriguez Heyman < darian@darianheyman.com >  I suggest looking into NFTE.com, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and Ashoka's YouthVenture- I'd imagine both of those have ties into all these programs, and I can provide contacts if useful.   Darian Rodriguez Heyman   Founder, CODE Green <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Lecturer, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> 3) From Jerr Boschee < jerr@orbis.net > <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Be sure to check out <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">http://www.sageglobal.org . . . I'm the Board Chair, but the key person is the founder and executive director, Curt DeBerg ( cdeberg@csuchico.edu ). We work with high school social entrepreneurs in <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> more than 20 countries and our eighth World Cup will be in Cape Town this summer. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> JERR BOSCHEE <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> 4) From Aparna Katre < aparnakatre@gmail.com > <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Global Challenge Award runs a competition using webquest method for high school students worldwide to research and design solutions to sustainability (initial focus has been on climate change and energy issues). They develop technical &/or business plans for the issue of their choice, some of which can be tested for viability and prototyping. Global Challenge Award is a nonprofit organization striving to become a social enterprise itself. Our focus is on middle and high school students to develop 21st Century skills in them leveraging the power of new media and engaging them in real-world issues of sustainability. Apart from the competition outlined above, we are in the early stages of short curricula units that engage students in challenge-based learning using "virtual world (Second Life for Teens)" to conceptualize solutions in a team environment. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Thanks <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Aparna <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">http://www.globalchallengeaward.org

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