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title: A look inside the Williamson County Schools Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center
description: "Inside Williamson County Schools’ Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center: students gain real-world business experience, mentorship, and skills to launch ventures like award-winning Spikey™."
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# [A look inside the Williamson County Schools Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center](https://www.unchartedlearning.org/newsroom/eic)

 Written by [Courtney Tate](https://www.unchartedlearning.org/newsroom/author/courtney-tate) | 09.12.25

Back to school looks a bit different for high school students enrolled in the Williamson County Schools Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (EIC). Opened in 2019, the EIC has a state-of-the-art facility with a podcast room, fabrication lab, meeting rooms, and an incubator-style environment and it offers a chance for students to grow in a nontraditional way, to experience real-world business situations. In the EIC, students gain real-world experience in entrepreneurship and innovation by crafting business plans, conducting market research, launching products or services and pitching for funding. Enrollment is determined through an application process that includes short answer questions, teacher recommendations, and an interview. The one common thread among all of the students of the EIC is that the students should have a drive or interest in offering a service, developing a product, starting a business, being an entrepreneur, or thinking outside of the box. 

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