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title: "No minimum age: trends show young entrepreneurs on the rise in the Lake Travis-Westlake area"
description: "Westlake High School is in its third year of offering the INCubatoredu course. Administration learned about it while interviewing and hiring Superintendent Tom Leonard. The program originated in his former district of Barrington, Illinois in 2014 and now has about 100 chapters across the country.

“It takes our entrepreneur course and makes it more dynamic and real-world by having the students create a business,” said Jerri LaMirand, Eanes ISD director of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics."
---

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# [No minimum age: trends show young entrepreneurs on the rise in the Lake Travis-Westlake area](https://www.unchartedlearning.org/newsroom/no-minimum-age-trends-show-young-entrepreneurs-on-the-rise-in-the-lake-travis-westlake-area)

 Written by [Sally Grace Holtgrieve](https://www.unchartedlearning.org/newsroom/author/sally-grace-holtgrieve) | 05.13.19

A group of businessmen sat in a conference room on a Wednesday afternoon in mid-February discussing complex issues—how to grow their mobile application user base, invested dollars remaining after product development 2.0 and the establishment of a legal component.

Eventually the bell rang, and the ***12th-graders* **headed to their next class.

Westlake High School is in its third year of offering the [INCubatoredu](https://www.unchartedlearning.org/student-programs/incubatoredu) course. Administration learned about it while interviewing and hiring Superintendent Tom Leonard. The program originated in his former district of Barrington, Illinois in 2014 and now has about 100 chapters across the country.

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