by Julie Wood | Jun 28, 2017 | blog, Camps, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Lemonade Stand, teaching business, Uncategorized, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur camp
“Just because you’re a kid doesn’t mean you can’t start a business”. ~Sophia, youth entrepreneur camp attendee That was what Sophia said to me during our youth entrepreneur camp. And the best part is she was right! It is amazing the ideas that kids come up with during...
by Julie Wood | Mar 25, 2017 | blog, Camps, entrepreneurship education, Parents, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur camp
Did you love summer camp when you were a kid? (I sure did!). Some of my favorite memories as a kid were from summer camp. I loved staying in a tent or cabin, slurping slushies, singing fun songs, making s’mores around the campfire and learning all kinds of new things...
by Julie Wood | Jun 4, 2016 | author, blog, Camps, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Lemonade Stand, Parents, teaching business, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur
Spring is only a month away (even though in Wisconsin it keeps snowing every other day) and summer will be here before we know it. So it is time to start thinking about your kid’s summer camp. If you haven’t taken advantage of providing a summer camp...
by Julie Wood | Mar 5, 2016 | blog, Camps, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Parents, Teachers, teaching business, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur
Everyone loves a good video, especially kids! It’s always amazing to me that they can be somewhat loud and rambunctious and then a video comes on and voila; it’s like magic – they are mesmerized by the world of video, they pay attention and soak it in! That is why...
by Julie Wood | Feb 21, 2016 | blog, business operations, Camps, Economic Development, entrepreneurship education, Parents, Teachers, teaching business, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur, Youth Organizations
Teaching Business Operations with the Biz Ops Game is one of the kid’s favorite (and my favorite) activities that is used in the More Than a Lemonade Stand Youth Entrepreneur Curriculum. It is a business simulation board game that focuses on teaching business...
by Julie Wood | Sep 26, 2015 | blog, Camps, Economic Development, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Parents, Teachers, teaching business, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur, Youth Organizations, youth unemployment
My theory is that you can’t really teach kids how to be an entrepreneur if they don’t know what it is. The hard part is defining what an entrepreneur is! If you Google “What is an Entrepreneur”, you will get 149 million results in a matter of seconds. The first one...
