REVISIT THE HIGHLIGHTS of the 25th Annual Entrepreneurship Education FORUM and the unique experiences of Charleston, South Carolina

November 3 - 6, 2007

• Welcome and Many Thanks to our Sponsors

• Download the Keynote Presentation by Sam Leiken, Council on Competitiveness . It is important for educators to see the role they are playing in preparing young people to be competitive and innovative in creating their own businesses ....and to look at it in the context of where the rest of the world is growing in geometric numbers.

• USA TODAY and Rosalind Denning, Detroit Schools, were each awarded the Excellence in Education Awards for their outstanding contributions to the field of entrepreneurship education. Press releases for the Awards are available online for USA TODAY and for the conference presentation as a whole.

• THESE KIDS MEAN BUSINES$....Thanks to Zach Richter for providing the Private Showing of this PBS Special program that features a number of Consortium member organizations and the exciting message from their young students who are starting their own businesses. Remember that you can go to www.thesekidsmeanbusiness.org for continuing information about the show and resources for your entrepreneurship program. Download this letter as a sample approach to contacting your PBS station.

• Thanks to Michael Simmons, (Extreme Entrepreneurship Education) and his great panel of young entrepreneurs (Adam Witty, Lancie Affonso, Sheena Lyndahl, and Michael Shemtov) for providing the closing motivational message about entrepreneurship as we enjoyed a wonderful dinner aboard the USS Yorktown. It was a great night on this famous old aircraft carrier and a special ending for the experience provided by these young enterpreneurs. .

• 11 Teachers win Innovative Program Grants, up to $3,000 to support special entrepreneurship program activities. Thanks to the Coleman Foundation and the Appalachian Regional Commission for these awards to assist teachers provide creative activities to teach entrepreneurship in the schools.

• Meet the newly elected officers of the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education for 2007 - 2008

• Congratulate the scholarship winners.

• Download the list of entrepreneurship educators and leaders attending the conference.

  CHECK OUT THE PICTURES from the FORUM.
  Thanks to Dean Kanipe for taking all of these great pictures and to Michael Doyle for enabling us to give them to you as PowerPoints. You can click to stop on a picture and print and/or save it if you wish.

  • Opening session and Roundtables on Saturday.
  • Scholarship Winners
  • Speakers and Participants - Sunday and Monday
  • Grant Fund Winners
  • USS Yorktown Evening Out
  • Postconference Tour of AnteBellum Charleston with Friends

  Thanks to our session presenters who are sharing their conference materials here:

  • A-1 YESG - Toward Universal Entrepreneurial Literacy...Mike Caslin, NFTE, New York, NY
  • A-2 Bernelli Bizzmobile, Cindy Iannarelli, Bernelli University, Cecil, PA
  • A-3 Loving to Teach Those Who Think Like an Entrepreneur, Cynthia Greene, South-Western Cengage Learning, Cincinnati, OH
  • A-4 Transforming A Passion: Entrepreneurship and the Liberal Arts, Deborah Hoover, The Burton Morgan Foundation, Hudson, OH, Leo Charette, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
  • A-5 "E"...a Second Chance: New Start After Life Mistakes Ida R. Manning, IL Institute for Entrepreneurship Education, Zira J. Smith, University of IL Extension Cook County, Chicago, IL
  • A-6 Entrepreneurship Power and Possibility with DECA, Michelle Walker, DECA, Inc, Reston, VA
  • B-1 Beyond the Lemonade Stand...Involving Your Community, Malinda Todd, NC REAL, and Leslie Scott, NC Rural Center, Raleigh, NC
  • B-2 Building a Foundation for the Future: JA Entrepreneurship Programs, John Box, JA Worldwide, Colorado Springs, CO
  • B-3 Loving to Teach Those Who Think Like an Entrepreneur, Financial Literacy Through Entrepreneurship, Sherii Farmer, Priscilla Petrini, Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas, Wichita and Kansas City, KS
  • B-4 Partnerships for Articulation, Tim Mittan, Southeast Community College, Gregg Christensen, NE Department of Education, and Patricia Fairchild, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
  • B-5 Using Roundtables as a Vehicle for Peer Learning, and Survey Results Suzanne Barnett, Valdosta State University, SBDC, Valdosta, GA
  • B-6 Get in the Zone! Becky Grant, FBLA-PBL, Inc, Reston, VA
  • C-1 Creating Excitement in Entrepreneurship Education, Frank Kennedy, Cecil PA
  • C-2 Don't Wait for High School to Start Entrepreneurship! Pam Lawler, MicroSociety, Inc, Philadelphia, PA, Brenda Grant Stokes, Butler Elementary, Savannah, GA
  • C-3 Igniting the Spark! and Handouts.... Tee Shirt Marketing Competition, Business Scavenger Hunt , Business Plan Rubric, Kathy Gielow, CTE - Buffalo Public Schools, Buffalo, NY
  • C-4 Casting Your Net with Podcasting, Sherry Robinson, Penn State University, Hazelton, PA
  • C-5 Reaching & Teaching the Hard to Reach, Dorothy Browning, First Step Fund, Kansas City, MO
  • C-6 ESI...Opening the Books of an Experiential, Entrepreneurship Classroom, Patricia Fairchild, Nancy Eberle, University of NE - Lincoln; Gregg Christensen, Department of Education, Lincoln, NE
  • D-1 State Leadership Teams for National Entrepreneurship Week, Panel: Trey Michael (NC), Marilyn Kipp (ND), Constance Manchester-Bonenfant (NH), Ronni Cohen (DE) and Michael Doyle (Western NY)
  • D-2 All About YESCarolina, Jimmy Bailey, Jenny Whittle, YESCarolina, Charleston, SC
  • D-3 Help Kids Get It, Hank Kopcial, NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation, Washington DC
  • D-4 Entrepreneurship...Concept to Commercialization, Diane Sabato, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA
  • D-5 Online Small Business Modules: Driving Home Business Operations, Anna Koltchagova, Malinda Todd, NC REAL Enterprises, Raleigh, NC
  • D-6 Bring Entrepreneurship to Life Mathew Georghiou, Media Spark, Inc., Nova Scotia, Canada
  • E-1 Creating a State Consortium, Ida Manning, IL Institute for Entrepreneurship Education, Chicago, IL
  • E-2 Mixing Economics, Personal Finance, and Entrepreneurship in K-12, Carrie McIndoe, National Council on Economic Education, New York, NY; Jim O'Neill, University of DE; William Walstad, University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
  • E-3 Admiral's Galley Project: Discovering Hidden Strengths, Nancy Branch, Debbie Adams, Gulfport High School, Gulfport, MS
  • E-4 Creative Partnerships, Genelle Taylor, Lyles Center, California State University, Fresno, CA
  • E-5 Show Me the Money...Myths and Realities of Funding, Mary Dickerson, SC Women's Business Center, Charleston, SC
  • E-6 Think Like an Entrepreneur...Contextual and Innovative Programs, Brandy Bertram, Laura Dominguez, Making Cents, Washington, DC
  • F-1 Secrets of Winning a Leavey Award, and program description Donna Thomas, Vice President for Development,Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, PA; Donna Martin, Gainesville, FL; MaryAnne Hovland, Winnebago Schools, NE; and Tips for winning from Ronni Cohen, Claymont, DE
  • F-2 Inspiring Young Entrepreneurs via Interaction, Fun, and Focus, Jeffrey Reese,Chad Rieflin,Chelsea Allinger -Rochester, NY Parks / Recreation Program, Rochester, NY
  • F-3 We "MarkIT" So You Don't Have To, Lisa Yoder, Rusty Jolliff, Newton High School, Newton, KS
  • F-4 IDEA BOUNCE, Peter Hackbert, William & Kay Moore Chair of Entrepreneurship, Berea College, Berea, KY
  • F-5 Creating a Global Entrepreneurs Institute, Vito Amato, Cisco Entrepreneur Institute, Scottsdale, AZ
  • F-6 Entrepreneurship Experience for Everyone, Scott Reznick, Enterprise Prep TM, Harvey Cedars, NJ
  • G-1 Integrating Entrepreneurship in the National Standards for Business Administration, James R Gleason, Mark-Ed, Columbus, OH
  • G-2 Chasing the Dream, Ronni Cohen, DE Financial Literacy Institute, Claymont, DE
  • G-3 Entrepreneurship...Not Just for the Business Teachers Anymore, Susan Moak Nealy, Baton Rouge Community College, Carol Carter, Louisiana State University, Elizabeth Thompson, Livingston Parish School System, LA
  • G-4 NACCE Panel....Entrepreneurship Across Campus, Panel: Diane Sabato, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA; Tim Mittan, Southeast Community College, NE; David Forester, Haywood Community College, NC
  • G-5 Customized Programs Around the World, Juan Casimiro, Steve Berlin, Insight, Miami, FL
  • G-6 Makes Me Think Of....Developing a Creative Mindset, Cheryl Peters, Generation E, Battle Creek, MI

  PARTICIPANTS: Please send us your conference presentation powerpoints as well as your pictures to post for all to share. Send to Cathy Ashmore at cashmore@entre-ed.org.

  See details of the 2007 FORUM in Charleston, SC

  PLAN TO JOIN US NEXT YEAR,
  November 8 - 11, 2008, in AUSTIN, TEXAS

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