Press Room

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…

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…

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.