Entrepreneurship

Interested in helping kids in your program build their entrepreneurship mindset and skills? Check out the resources below!

Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge Out-of-School Time is Underway!

The Young Entrepreneur Institute (YEI) Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge OST is underway! This competition was created as a way to empower young people in afterschool and summer programs to flex their entrepreneurial mindsets by creating business ideas and pitching them. Problem-solving, empathy, communication, and creativity are just a few of the skills they practice by participating.

Program incentives include:

  • A free Pitch Challenge Toolkit for facilitating five 1-hour lessons 

  • Free staff training and student workshops

  • Registered programs with six or more students receive $50 to celebrate with a pizza, donut, ice cream, or other party.

  • Programs with a winning video will receive a $50 gift card

  • Every program will have a finalist for each age category with six or more students entering. Finalist entries receive $60.

The details:

The registration deadline for programs is June 15; register here.

The entry deadline is July 15.

Contest Timeline

Contest Rules


For more information, contact Marissa Wilson at mdwilson@us.edu.

VentureLab: Entrepreneural Mindset

VentureLab is a nonprofit organization that is helping create the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers through entrepreneurial learning. They offer curriculum and training opportunities to help youth in your program build their entrepreneurial mindsets - their ability to problem solve, embrace failure, and adapt - and their skills - creativity, idea generation, pitching and more!


Check out their website at https://venturelab.org for more information!