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June 12, 2017

After the results of 11 local high school students attending Augustana College’s Entrepreneurial Mindset Academy in Fall 2016, a pilot program at Sioux Falls schools will educate 20 students on the entrepreneurial mindset utilizing ELI programs in Fall 2017.  The experience of students like Carter Pfitzer influenced the decision to expand because as he said, he “valued his experience in the Mindset Academy so much that he was among students telling the Sioux Falls School…

May 23, 2017

Entrepreneurship is more than an academic discipline and reaches far beyond the concept of traditional business creation and small business management. Entrepreneurship is a mindset: a frame work for thinking and acting that can empower anyone to succeed. Algonquin College offers a Redefining Entrepreneurship keynote with ELI Founder Gary Schoeniger. Learn more here.

May 21, 2017

Independence Community College Ice House Facilitator Jim Correll was named one of 50 Kansans you should know for his early adoption of Ice House in Kansas. “The No. 1 thing holding rural Kansas back is mindset,” Correll says. “Every rural community should be offering the entrepreneurial mindset class. … Without the change to entrepreneurial mindset, most of the other stuff, won’t work.” Read the press release here and an article here.

April 17, 2017

The Delmarva Black Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Dover Partnership, and the Restoring Central Dover initiative have joined forces to offer a cutting-edge entrepreneur development program. The Ice House Entrepreneur Development Program offers the premiere entrepreneurial foundation in the nation. Read the full article here.

April 5, 2017

Independence, Kansas — April 5, 2017— Gary Schoeniger, Founder of the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI) and Co-Author of Who owns the Ice House? Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur will speak at a community keynote from 11:30 – 1:00 pm Tuesday, May 2 at the Historical Memorial Hall and Civic Center. Read more here.