Press Room

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.

March 6, 2017

ELI Founder & CEO Gary Schoeniger conducts a book signing in the SXSWedu Bookstore. Check the SXSWedu schedule here.

February 27, 2017

For academic year 2016-2017, Struthers High School in Ohio implemented an innovative entrepreneurship program using ELI programs as a foundation.  Eighty students participated in an elective class that Principal Roger Day describes as a model for others to emulate across the area and potentially the nation. Read more about the program.