Young Americans hosts students at our facilities for financial literacy field trips to Ameritowne and global interdependency field trips to International Towne throughout the school year, but it was our Young Entrepreneurs turn to take a field trip on Saturday, January 10th. Nine youth owned ventures met at Open Media Foundation (OMF) to film and edit business commercials. OMF is …
What a phenomenal year this was for our youth business owners. The community shoppers didn’t do too badly either! With more than 150 businesses participating in two weekends of Marketplaces, December at Young Americans started of strong. This year’s batch of products were high quality and incredibly diverse. Shoppers could choose from lego ornaments, cake pops, melted crayon paintings, recorded …
Success Strategies is a free class we offer at Young Americans before each Young Entrepreneurs Marketplace to help business owners make a plan to be as successful as possible during the actual event. Our most recent class was hosted in October 25th, and had some brand-new business owners and their parents join us to learn and share about good vs. …
Young Americans was thrilled to partner with Boulder Prep High School, a Boulder Valley Charter School, to present our Founding Framework entrepreneurship curriculum to a group of their students. It was a week off between blocks for the entire school, but those with a curiosity for entrepreneurship showed up for four long and intense days to go through the process …
Two of the winners of our annual youth business competition, the Celebration for Young Entrepreneurs, were selected over the summer. We asked them each to patiently keep the news quiet so that we could announce them as the winners at our event in September — and make a big deal of things. Both of the winners did a wonderful job keeping …
For the 13th year in a row, Young Americans just selected the top youth business owners in the state. The annual Celebration for Young Entrepreneurs took place during Denver Startup Week, and there were several new elements this year that made the event more exciting than ever! The setting We hosted the event at the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship at …
It’s that time of year again! Summer is winding down, kids are going back to school, but don’t be too sad….because it time for The Celebration of Young Entrepreneurs! Take a moment to appreciate what these young people are doing to contribute to the community. It takes courage, insight, diligence, and dedication to take an idea to reality. Please join …
The following post was written by a young lady who attended our summer camp. She asked our staff if she could share her story through our blog, and we enthusiastically agreed! Read about her incredible experience in her own words here. Greetings to all readers of this blog! My name is Sonya Zakarian, an amazed student of this summer’s BYOB …
I really enjoyed celebrating a great week in Being Your Own Boss camp last week with a Business Expo and Shark Tank. Nearly 80 campers who had completed 5th and 6th grade worked all week on their existing businesses or new business plans and business pitches. By Friday after a pizza party and fun outside on our program deck, they …
With the help of our wonderful Daniels Scholar Intern, JD Yaklich, and Board member David Wolf, a former venture capital investor and adjunct professor, Young Americans just concluded the judging process to decide the winners and finalists for our youth business competition, the Celebration for Young Entrepreneurs (CYE). How it works Since we have such a close connection to all …
