Boca Chamber Welcomes Young Entrepreneurs Academy Students
BOCA RATON– YEA! is back in business for another year.
TheYoungEntrepreneursAcademy, or YEA!, is an innovative program that guides students through the process of starting their own real business. The Greater Boca Raton Chamber and partner, theAdamsCenterfor Entrepreneurship atFloridaAtlanticUniversity, announce the start of the YEA! Program at the FAU College of Business for the 2012-2013 school year.
YEA! takes students from ages 12 to 18 through the process of launching a real business or social movement over the course of an academic year. By the end of the course, students own and operate fully-formed and functioning businesses, which may be carried after their graduation from the program. YEA! aims at teaching students at an early age how to make a job, not just take a job. YEA! was developed at theUniversity ofRochester with support from The Kauffman Foundation.
Business Partners to date for this year’s program are: FAUAdamsCenterfor Entrepreneurship, FPL, NCCI, Bluegreen Corporation, First Citizens Bank, Plastridge Insurance, Modernizing Medicine, Saint Andrew’s School and The Rendon Center for Dermatology & Aesthetic Medicine.
The students chosen through an application and an interview process are:
Shirley Bazua – Cardinal Gibbons High School
Justin Bentayou – Eagles Landing Middle School
Bronson Bloom – Pine Crest School
Alex Bruens – A.D. Henderson School
Taylor Burrell – Eagles Landing Middle School
Zachary Close – Home School
Kalvaince Die – A.D. Henderson School
Dylan Ehrnst – Boca Raton Community High School
Julia Galang – Coral Springs Charter School
Gabriela Heizer – Atlantic High School
Chaz Hermanowski – Saint Andrew’s School
Gabriel Louvet – Spanish River High School
Carly Manzella – Boca Raton Community High School
Lauren Miller-Petrovich – Boca Raton Christian School
Donald Nelson – Saint Andrew’s School
Drew Novak – St. Joan of Arc
Niki Patel – Boca Raton Community High School
Jorge Soares-Paulino – Boca Raton Community Middle School
Jordan Rand – Pope John Paul II High School
Lawrence Stoll – The Benjamin School
Jack Stoll – Palm Beach Day Academy
John Sutor – Boca Raton Community Middle School
Oliver Vinograd – Spanish River Community High School
Rachel Zietz – Pine Crest School
Tuana Tuba Yazi – Pine Crest School
The program requires a nine-month commitment from its young executives. In that time they brainstorm and form their enterprises, make pitches to potential investors, obtain funding, register their companies with governmental agencies and actually launch their own company or social movement! Business mentors, graphic designers and local entrepreneurs support the students throughout the program and all of the learning is real and experiential.
For more information, call 561.395.4433 ext. 236