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 | Jan 3, 2016 | author, blog, Economic Development, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Lemonade Stand, Parents, Teachers, teaching business, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur, Youth Organizations
Choose a business idea. You can’t start learning about how to start a business if you don’t have an idea. Think about hobbies, interests, what you’ve learned, what you have experience in, what you’re good at what you like to do in your spare time. Test your idea with...
by Julie Wood | Oct 15, 2015 | blog, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Parents, Teachers, teaching business, youth entrepreneur, Youth Organizations
I am an avid reader of ideas for teaching entrepreneurship not only for improving my own teaching of entrepreneurship but also so I can help parents and teachers implement entrepreneurship education in easy and effective ways. Sometimes we forget about the everyday...
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...
