Youth Entrepreneurship Showcase, Y.E.S., is online and ready to register student teams. This is a great way to involve your students in critical and creative thinking as they compete in a statewide recognition — and more importantly have fun while practicing literacy, mathematics and higher order thinking skills. Teams of 2 to 6 students create a business plan for a good or service. This plan is submitted and statewide judges determine who makes it to the product development stage. Student teams can come from virtual, face-to-face classes or from non-classroom based teams such as after school programs, learning pods, churches or home school networks. They must have an adult sponsor who is not a relative. Teachers may submit multiple projects. This integrates nicely into Arkansas history.
Specific information on Expo Day will be available later. The cash awards for teacher and students are NOT going away! Awards will include “Best Business Plan”; “Best Retail Booth”, “Best Marketing Plan”, and “Most Innovative”. So help your students start brainstorming business ideas. A great tool to use to introduce Arkansas entrepreneurship would be Natural State Entrepreneurs, an online curriculum. Start your students with the Affinity Quiz to see which Arkansas entrepreneur they are most like. You can learn more about this curriculum here. Or use Mo Rocca’s Innovation Nation videos to introduce successful businesses. Or use Entrepreneurship Kids books written by Erica Swallow, an Arkansas native from Paragould. Use podcasts by Guy Raz titled How I Built This to get the juices flowing. Use this link to teach financial basics for entrepreneurs and their business plans. Your students will find many posts on various Arkansas entrepreneurs on this blog. Turn it into an assignment where they creatively share entrepreneurial characteristics with their classmates from their research. Involving your students in Y.E.S and teaching about Arkansas entrepreneurs should help to build pride in our entrepreneurial thinking! This information from the Camber of Commerce may be of use, click here.
For more information go to the Y.E.S. website. https://arcapital.com/yesforarkansas or to the attached guidelines.
- Important Dates:
- Now – Team registration open on YouNoodle
- November 19 – Business plans due in YouNoodle
- December 17 – Announcement of Top 25 finalists on the Y.E.S. website / home page
- February 26 – 2021 Virtual Expo Day
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