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Bridging Passion and Possibility: Chicago’s Approach to New Pathways

For the previous three years, Getting Smart has hosted regional New Pathways events sponsored by Britebound across the country, with the latest taking place in the great city of Chicago.

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Getting Smart Podcast

Live at Uncharted Learning Summit: Why Entrepreneurship Is for Everyone

In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, hosts Victoria Andrews and Shawnee Caruthers travel to Chicago for the Uncharted Learning annual summit, where they sit down with students, alumni, teachers, a first-year educator, a school champion, and a program director to explore what happens when entrepreneurship becomes the organizing principle of a school community. From Mika Chang discovering her business-minded identity to Connor Boundy reflecting on pitching venture capitalists as a teenager in the very first INCubatoredu cohort, and from Alan Carranza connecting delegation skills to life in the Army National Guard to Spiky founder Abigail turning a product into statewide policy advocacy, the episode braids together voices across generations, roles, and geographies to reveal what Uncharted Learning has built over more than a decade...

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North Shore INCubatoredu
North Shore City Lifestyle

North Shore's Next Gen Innovators

The North Shore has long been known for academic excellence, but increasingly, it’s also becoming a launchpad for young entrepreneurs.

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Chicago Tribune Naperville Sun

Naperville Central students’ ‘Plant Pal’ advances to national pitch contest

For some people, plants are like pets.

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INCubatoredu Frisco ISD
Prism News

Frisco ISD student startups win cash at INCubatoredu Pitch Night

Three Frisco ISD student startups left Pitch Night with real seed money and a clearer path from classroom idea to working product after judges heard their business plans and asked the kinds of questions founders face in the real market.

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Lyons Township High School
Shaw Local

Lyons Township entrepreneurs to present at INCubatoredu Pitch Night

The community is invited to attend Lyons Township High School’s Incubatoredu Final Pitch Night on May 11 at North Campus Reber Center, where student entrepreneurs will present their original business ventures after a year of hands-on development and one team will walk away with $1,500.

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Tour the Tennessee High School Program Producing Real Founders

Tour the Tennessee high school program producing real founders

Walk through the doors ofWilliamson County Schools’ (WSC) Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (EIC), and you might be greeted by one of Tennessee’s most promising future business leaders.

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WZMQ CBS News

Copper Country Intermediate School District holds inaugural CTE ‘Pike Tank’

HANCOCK, Mich. (WZMQ) – The Copper Country Intermediate School District has brought the popular tv show ‘Shark Tank’ to freshwater.

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Green Bay Press-Gazette

INCubatoredu class teaches high school students about building a business

Part of the next generation of entrepreneurs may well be the result of INCubatoredu, a course taught by Karen Hoffman, Lynn Fischer, and Tony Schaaf at Kimberly High School. And the ideas coming from students bodes well for the future of innovative business startups. 

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Farmers' Harvest

INCubatoredu partners with award-winning pizza restaurant

The sounds of bustling business and ovens roaring echo throughout the aged red-brick walls. New flavor aromas fill the air with the new collaboration between Lewisville ISD's INCubatoredu and Motor City Pizza.

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