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An Entrepreneurial Mindset Drives Student Success in Mexico

September 11, 2017

(Monterrey, Mexico, September 1, 2017] –Since 2014, the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI) and Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (TEC) have partnered to successfully deliver entrepreneurial mindset curriculum to approximately 7,500 high school students across 37 campuses in Mexico. The partnership consisted of customizing ELI’s Ice House Student Success Program for delivery in Mexico, the training of approximately 200 teachers at TEC’s Preparatory school (Prepa Tec) to facilitate the program and establishing outcomes and evaluations tools to measure…

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Ice House Boot Camp to Revitalize Rural Communities

September 7, 2017

In this Community Boot Camp, we’ll share our experience with incorporating the hands-on creative experience with the entrepreneurial mindset philosophy using the revolutionary Ice House Entrepreneurship program to build the community mindset. It’s a powerful combination that has sparked innovations and success stories we never dreamed possible when we launched the concept in 2014 in our rural Kansas community. See when their next Boot Camps are being held here.

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YMCA to Launch Ice House for Women Entrepreneurs

August 30, 2017

Mindset Matters announces a partnership with the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI) and Royal Neighbors to provide the Ice House Women’s Entrepreneurship Class to ignite the entrepreneurial mindset and cultivate an entrepreneurial culture. “Understanding the content of the Mindset Matters program that Janita Pavelka is presenting in our area, I would like to recommend this course wholeheartedly to everyone that is interested in making their world a better place”, said Roger Allmand, former Chairman of Allmand…

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McPherson Chamber of Commerce Offers Ice House

August 24, 2017

Through the combined efforts of the McPherson County Entrepreneurship Community Board, McPherson College, Inman Entrepreneurship Community and NetWork Kansas, Ice House is offered to inspire and engage innovators and entrepreneurs of our community and county. Read more about their program here.

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How to Weave Your Way to a New Business with Ice House

August 22, 2017

When Johanna Miller started the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Missouri Kansas City’s SBDC, she knew how to knit a sock and wanted to open her own yarn store, but didn’t have the business savvy to pull all the threads together. “I never thought of myself as a business person. I didn’t think I could learn the things needed to run my own business. And I was very scared.” Today, she’s turning…

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