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January 19, 2018

An exciting new project related to economic development and entrepreneurship is happening in Harlan County. Growing Our Own is an investment in students from Harlan County High School. The project has two arms. The first arm provides AIMS aptitude testing for students who want to live in and own a business in Harlan. The second arm of the project is an educational component that fosters the entrepreneurial spirit. This arm will begin with a group…

December 20, 2017

Several local organizations in Bennington, Vermont are launching the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program to drive the entrepreneurial mindset in their local community with the ultimate goal of growing the economy. Read more about their launch here.

October 19, 2017

Teachers from the Erie Public School District, Prepa-Villa, and General MacLane schools were certified as Ice House Facilitators after a three day training. The teachers will be launching the Ice House Student Success Program to students in Spring 2018. Read more here.

October 4, 2017

Erie County, the United Way, Erie Public Schools, and the Innovation Collaborative announce that the Ice House Program will inspire and instill the entrepreneurial mindset within more than 800 seventh-grade students.  The goal is to change the mindsets of young people in Northwestern Pennsylvania to be much more entrepreneurial. According to the Erie Schools Assistant Superintendent, Bea Habursky, they would learn “what character traits they would need in order to find a problem and solve a…

September 26, 2017

Rockhurst High School has established a partnership with the University of Missouri-Kansas City Small Business & Technology Development Center to provide entrepreneurial mindset curriculum to its students. The class — Entrepreneurship for Others — is a revamped version of the popular Ice House Entrepreneurship Program for adults. It’s available as an elective for Rockhurst juniors and seniors and is taught by the development center’s Rebecca Gubbels. “At Rockhurst, we want to ultimately challenge students to create solutions to solve problems and…