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Multiple Entrepreneurship Programs, After School Activities, and Clubs for Rising Middle through High School Students
Launching Two New Programs!
Fall 2024: Middle School C.E.O.
Winter 2025: Innovate for Inclusion
Bring an activity-based entrepreneurship program into your classroom and engage your students
by having them work in teams to ideate and develop a start-up!
Entrepreneurship develops leaders through knowledge, responsibility, connection and academic achievement
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Project ECHO supports teachers in their classrooms with:
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Professional development, resources, and continuing support
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A student-focused curriculum that culminates with a showcase event
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On-line mentoring for student business teams provided by background-screened volunteers
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Virtual events to include C-Suite Speakers Series and Entrepreneur Chats
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Optional participation in the Business Plan Competition is worthy of college applications, and winning teams are awarded cash start-up funds (AKA scholarships!)
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What Does Project ECHO Offer?
Project ECHO (Entrepreneurial Concepts Hands On!) collaborates directly with middle and high schools to offer project-based entrepreneurship programs that are innovative and equitable and allow teachers to meet their students where they are. Implement your vision for student success through project-based learning, and watch your students develop leadership skills through committed engagement. When it's their idea, they're accountable.
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Participating teachers reported that their students developed their cognitive abilities, and demonstrated an increase in self-confidence, motivation, and drive to complete their projects.
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Through robust entrepreneurship programs, Project ECHO offers:
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student-focused curriculums
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professional development for educators
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university-hosted events
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mentorship, support and guest speakers
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assistance to schools to build community collaborations
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and features the High School Entrepreneurs’ Business Plan Competition
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Students complete Project ECHO’s entrepreneurship programs empowered by their accomplishments, with many juniors and seniors reporting college majors and careers are now in focus!
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Standing out in the Competitive College Landscape
Students are awarded a Certificate of Accomplishment at the conclusion of the competition, building their college portfolios and helping them stand out from their peers as they prepare to apply for college.
Innovate + Participate + Succeed
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More than 97% of teen participants indicated that Project ECHO's Business Plan Competition was their most memorable high school experience.
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Of high school students indicated that they will refer to Project ECHO on their college applications and future employment applications.
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Of participants could now lead a team. This is how we change the future and develop the next generation of leaders.
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90% of participants had an increased interest in business. This is important as teens start to plan for their careers and understanding what goes into running a successful business is value-added.
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Showed increased skills in finance, leadership, communication, self-confidence, teamwork and enthusiasm for school. It also helped them to decide a college major and make new friends.
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70+% identified their academic strengths, were influenced on their decision to go to college and had an increased confidence level to graduate from high school.
Programmatic Highlights
Project ECHO is designed to unleash the potential of all young people. We teach participants to draw both from their own strengths as well as to build upon the capabilities of others. Developing a new business idea from the ground up not only re-engages students in their academic journey, but it builds a more assured future for their next step into college and/or career.
RAY CHOU
DIRECTOR BREAKTHROUGH TRAINING CENTER
I would encourage schools considering Project ECHO to sign up immediately! Project ECHO is among the most caring organizations out there. Year in and year out, it provides loads of infrastructure for both students and schools looking to learn and teach entrepreneurship. The programs are always improving, and the leadership is top notch.
DR. SABA ARAYA
PRINCIPAL CITY HONORS INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
Some of the life skills that we have seen manifest in our students who participate in Project ECHO are confidence in public speaking, feeling successful in collaborating and working with a team, learning how to collect and analyze data, using social media for business, and using creativity to find innovative solutions to difficult problems. These life skills build a student’s career pathway toolkit needed for success in the future.
JAYANTHI RAJA
PARENT OF A HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR
"The most important things my son learned from participating in Project ECHO were creating a business plan and developing the self-confidence to learn to pitch a business. My son was learning things in his Project ECHO high school classroom that I learned in my MBA program".