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Summer Programs - Business/Economics/EntrpreneurshipClick on any program to see a brief description, cost and contact information.
- Gillette Economics for Leaders (GEFL)
- These weeklong, residential programs provide students who have just completed their junior year in high school with an exceptional opportunity to learn important leadership skills. You will learn economics and leadership while engaging in games and simulations. Get a jump on your classmates in understanding economic principles. These programs are designed to help students develop an understanding and appreciation of different leadership styles, insight into economic behavior, and an economic way of thinking about public policy choices.
Program Dates: June-July
Duration of Program: 1 week
Estimated Cost: Contact Program
Application Deadline: March
Contact:
Gillette Economics for Leaders
260 Russell Blvd. Suite B
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-757-4630
Fax: 530-757-4636
Email: information@fte.org
Website: www.fte.org/students/efl/
- Howard University, NAACP Reginald F. Lewis Youth Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI)
- LEAD Summer Business Institute
- LEAD (Leadership, Education, and Development) is a national partnership of business and academia that encourages the best and brightest high school juniors to pursue careers in business. An unprecedented opportunity, LEAD selects talented and promising high school juniors to participate in comprehensive summer business institutes, at twelve of the top graduate business schools in the U.S., by providing students with a broad perspective of the business world, LEAD helps students choose the best career direction, and provides them with the information they need to map an educational path to success.
After the summer program, LEAD supports students through college and beyond by opening doors to our partners mentoring programs, internships and permanent jobs. LEAD gives students the necessary edge for success, and for LEAD?s partners, a way of recruiting & connecting with bright, motivated students to create an impressive pool of future executive talent.
Program Dates: Contact program
Duration of Program: 3-4 weeks
Cost: $750 per student plus travel costs.
Application Deadline: Contact program
Contact
Ayanna Dewer, Program Director
14 E Hartwell Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19118
Phone: 215-753-2490
Email: info@leadnational.org
Website: www.leadprogram.org
- Merrill Lynch Atlantic Fellowship
- The Atlantic Fellowship gives exceptional high school students in underserved areas of the US and UK the opportunity to explore the business world firsthand and to discover the variety of careers in the financial industry. The fellowship offers a comprehensive overview of the financial markets, intensive workshops with leading executive trading organizations, and face-to-face meetings with some of the most respected leaders of Wall Street and London?s financial district.
Program Dates: July-August
Duration of Program: 2 weeks
Estimated Cost: Contact Program
Application Deadline: June
Contact:
Daree Lewis
Director, Alumni & Philanthropy Programs - SEO
30 W. 21st St., Suite 900
New York, NY 10010
Email: atlanticfellowship@seo-usa.org
Website: www.seo-usa.org/
- National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), BizCamp
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The NFTE BizCamp is an intensive two-week program where high school students learn how to start small businesses of their own. The program teaches business concepts such as how to read and use the Wall Street Journal, income statements, and how to prepare a marketing plan. Field trips and guest speakers are included. We encourage artistically inclined students to apply. At the end of the program students will compete for venture capital.
Program Dates: August
Duration of Program: 2 weeks
Cost: Free
Application Deadline: June
Contact
Chris Brown
NFTE, 120 Wall Street, 29th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Phone: 212-232-3333 ext 391
Email: chrisb@nfte.com
Website: www.nfte.com
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