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Last Updated: December 18, 2009

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Land Grant Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium (June 4-6, 2008)

Would you like to know more about various programs that target youth with training, education and the practical skill-building that entrepreneurs need? Check out the proceedings from this event--you'll find the actual presentations as well as video clips of the various sessions. NERCRD Land Grant Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium

Webinars featuring programs for Young Entrepreneurs
- Missouri 4-H Youth Entrepreneurship: Cultivating “Cloverpreneurs” in the Show Me State. Steve Henness is Extension Associate with the University of Missouri Extension 4-H Center for Youth Development. Steve provides leadership for 4-H programs and events in Youth/Adult Partnerships and Youth Entrepreneurship. He directs the MU Extension Youth Enterprisers Program, a statewide AmeriCorps*VISTA project placing full-time adult volunteers in assignments to build community entrepreneurial capacity.
- Engaging Youth in Entrepreneurship. Join Mary Emery, Iowa State University, Laura Allen, Career Education Coordinator, Michigan State University Extension, Debra Kantor, University of Maine, and Patricia Fairchild, Nebraska 4-H Curriculum Design and Youth Entrepreneur Specialist for an informative session on how to engage youth in entrepreneurship. The session will introduce the Youth Entrepreneurship Community of Practice and their project to create a matrix of youth entrepreneurship programs. Patricia Fairchild will introduce the Nebraska curriculum and Laura Allen will present on the Beyond the Lemonade Stand PROJECT which used the curriculum “Be the E.” This session will wrap up our webinar series for the summer.
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- Hear how 2 different programs, Marketplace for Kids and the Kentucky Youth Entrepreneurship Camp, are creating interest in self-employment among the young people in their regions.

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