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YES Summer Camp

June 9 - 20, 2008 (10 Days)
Youth Entrepreneurship Summer Camp (YES) Program
The YES Camp is a unique experience offered to high school students to expose them to the opportunities associated with entrepreneurship. This two week camp is designed to reach 20 high school students (10 & 11 grades) to introduce them to the concept of entrepreneurship. The YES Camp will inspire and encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice.

The YES Camp develops in students the passion and skills to succeed in the marketplace and in life by:

 

  • Stimulating economic thinking skills
  • Encouraging creative, intelligent risk-taking
  • Providing practical business experience, and
  • Instilling independence and personal responsibility

Participants will be encourage to think creatively, turn ideas into actions by starting a new business, developing an innovation for an existing business or solving a problem that improves the lives of others.

For a complete overview, click here.

To download the application, click here (Due May 9, 2008). For the Parent and Student Creed, click here. Also, please include a completed Consent to Reproduce Physical Likeness of a Minor form.


 

Ent Conference

January 31, 2008
Strategies for Small Business Success
Whether you are looking to start a business or take yours to the next level this conference has something for you! The US Small Business Administration reports that approximately 600,000 small businesses are started every year with over 54 percent having fewer than five employees.

Learn what training is separating the successes from the failures! The inaugural Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Conference
hosted by the US Department of Energy is a unique event that showcases profitable businesses, with powerful speakers and
relevant seminars that equips companies with, “Strategies for Small Business Success.”

Download the Schedule of Events here.

REGISTER for this event, please visit www.improvetheprocess.com

For directions to campus, click here. The conference hotel information is as follows:

CONFERENCE HOTELS

Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Ask for the Morehouse rate: $119
Reservation number: 404-577-1234

Hyatt Place Buckhead
Ask for the Morehouse Rate: $119
Wednesday 1/30/08 - Saturday 2/02/08
Reservation number: 404-869-6161



 

August 2, 2007
Military Geospatial Technology: Mentoring Technology

Summer 2007
Morehouse Magazine: Entrepreneurship Center Makes Significant Impact
on Minority, Small Businesses and Defense Contracting

June 20, 2007
Press Release: Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center Launches
YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP Summer (YES) Camp For Atlanta-Area High school Students

October 11, 2006
Press Release: LOCKHEED MARTIN FORMS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
MENTOR-PROTÉGÉ PACT WITH ALASKA NATIVE-OWNED BUSINESS