Nurture Vermont’s entrepreneurial spirit: join entrepreneurs, policymakers, business leaders, educators and students in celebration of National Entrepreneurship Week at the Vermont State House on Tuesday, February 8th.
Career and Technical student organizations’ student leaders involved in DECA (an organization preparing students for marketing, hospitality and management), FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America), FFA (Future Farmers of America), and Skills USA (a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled work force) will inform legislators and the public about their programs during the morning in the state house cafeteria.
At 1:30 p.m. join Entrepreneurship Week ‘ Team Vermont in the Cedar Creek Room for a Governor's Proclamation recognizing and celebrating Vermont Entrepreneurship Week February 6th - 12th, followed by the announcement of the winners of the statewide ‘Building Entrepreneurship Education in our Schools’ entrepreneurship education/literacy poster contest for high school students. Students submitted drawings/artwork to highlight how and why developing entrepreneurship skills will help them now and into the future.
This event sponsored by ‘Entrepreneurship Week - Team Vermont’: Johnson State College, Vermont Small Business Development Center, Champlain College, Vermont REAL Youth Entrepreneurship, Vermont Commission on Women, Vermont Department of Education, and Community Economic Development at Central Vermont Community Action Council. The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, at www.nationaleweek.org, is proud to sponsor National Entrepreneurship Week 2011, reminding everyone that our economy GROWS because of our entrepreneurs and their creative thinking.