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The Leader

LHS hosts inaugural Pitch Night for new incubator program

These future business visionaries had spent the school year participating in one of the most challenging scholastic and career programs in the world - The Lewisville Independent School District’s (LISD) INCubatoredu program. This class, more commonly referred to by participants and instructors as the “Incubator program,” is changing lives of students who would prefer to enter the business world directly out of high school.

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Tech & Learning

Student Entrepreneurs Pitch Business Ideas to Investors

Students at Mountain Brook (AL) high school learn how to vet a business idea, design a business, and pitch the business to investors in a unique entrepreneurial curriculum.

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The Woodstock Independent

First Place Team a Clear Thinner

Students in the INCubatoredu class at Marian Central Catholic High School presented their innovative products or services to a panel of judges during Final Pitch Night on May 9.

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Daily Herald

Student startups win seed money at Dist. 303 pitch night

Come up with an everyday problem. Find a distinctive solution. Turn it into a small business.

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Rockford Register Star

Taking Teaching Beyond Books

ROCKTON — Dominick Welte took a business class as a sophomore at Hononegah High School, and he wasn’t especially eager to take another this year when he was approached by Hononegah business teacher Jason Brunke.

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Daily Chronicle

‘Teenpreneurs’ stage own version of ‘Shark Tank’

Ten months of work came down to a 10-minute pitch for 13 students this week at Genoa-Kingston High School.

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MediaCity Beat - Rochester Rising

Be CEO at 17: Rochester Public Schools launching entrepreneurship program

Students will get a hands-on experience in starting their own business through a new course being offered through Rochester Public Schools.

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Chicago Tribune - Naperville Sun

Naperville students pitch their business ideas to local 'shark tank' in fight for investment money

More than 50 student entrepreneurs from Naperville School District 203 high schools gathered for the 2019 Business INCubatoredu Pitch Night Monday at North Central College’s Wentz Hall, the culmination of a yearlong project in which teams developed their own product or service to gain investment funds in a “Shark Tank” style event.

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2019-05-05.Westlake High School. article
Community IMPACT Newspaper

No minimum age: trends show young entrepreneurs on the rise in the Lake Travis-Westlake area

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.

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