MIDDLE SCHOOL

Building a Better Future

Improved academic skills
Experience entrepreneurship across the curriculum
Increased self-esteem and respect
Increased number of students identifying entrepreneurship as a career choice
Heightened awareness of the role of entrepreneurs
Encourage risk-taking & learning from failure
Learn to identify and recognize opportunities
Decrease in teen pregnancies and substance abuse
Improved economic literacy and understanding of capitalism
Improved financial literacy
Develop workplace literacy
Understand entrepreneurship process/ business plan
Become an educated, empowered consumer
Learn about opportunity cost
Embrace diversity/ socialization skills
Demonstrate conflict resolution/ negotiation/ sales-marketing/ persuasion skills
Learn how entrepreneurs give back
Learn how to make money
Recognize the contributions of entrepreneurs (they started small)
Foster and value idea generation