Young Entrepreneurs Academy Information Session

Bryn Mawr College will
host a Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) Night on Campus to inform interested
students (in grades 6-12) and their families about YEA!, a yearlong program
that guides middle and high school students in launching and running their own
real businesses.

                              Attendees will learn about the
structure, curriculum, and application process for the YEA! program. Students
and their families will also have the chance to meet recent YEA! graduates and
learn about their experience in the program and their businesses. Business leaders
can learn how to get involved with YEA! as a mentor, guest lecturer, or how to
join the “Investor” Panel. The local YEA! Program is sponsored by: Greater
Philadelphia Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs, The Foundation of the Delaware
County Chamber of Commerce and Bryn Mawr College.

                              YEA! brochures and applications will be
available at the event. The application deadline for the YEA! Class of 2013-2014
is September 27th.

WHEN:                            
September 19, 2013

                              7 p.m. – 8 p.m.

WHERE:             Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion
Ave., Dalton Rm. 300, Bryn Mawr PA

WHO:                  Free and open to the
public. Call 215-628-3875  to RSVP or etfisher@comcast.net.

ABOUT:       The Young Entrepreneurs
Academy, or
YEA!Ô, is a groundbreaking
educational program that takes students in grades six through twelve through
the process of starting and running real businesses over the course of a full
academic year. Students work in close cooperation with local
leaders of industry, community members, and educators to develop
ideas and objectives, write business plans, pitch potential investors, obtain
funding, register with governmental agencies, develop their brand identity and
much more! By the end of the class, students own and operate fully functioning
businesses that can be carried on after graduation. Students learn to make a job--not just take a job! YEA!’sÔ direct mission is to help students
embrace their passion, energy, creativity and talents, launch a venture, and
view entrepreneurship as synonymous with success and freedom. In 2008, YEA!Ô “spun-off” from the University of
Rochester, where it was formed in 2004 with support from the Kauffman
Foundation, to create its own not-for-profit corporation, YEA! Inc., which is
currently launching sites in colleges, universities and high schools across the
country to provide comprehensive, exciting entrepreneurship education,
leadership development and innovation training to youth between the ages of 11
and 18 years old in the United States thereby making the program available to
students at a variety of geographical regions, and providing them with skills
they need to succeed in the 21st Century. For more information about
the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, please call 215-628-3875 or visit www.yeaphiladelphia.org