Industry Features, Press Releases & Impact on Students, Schools and Communities

Williamson County mayor says new entrepreneur center will build workforce
Students enrolled in the new entrepreneurship program in Williamson County Schools gazed in awe at the soaring ceilings and modern environment of the new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center on Thursday, during its grand opening....In its first year, 130 students, representing all 10 high schools, are enrolled in the district wide EIC program, which will use the entrepreneurship curriculum INCubatoredu to guide project development...

Midlothian ISD Invests in Entrepreneurial Students’ Futures
The INCubatoredu program will be available to Midlothian freshmen and sophomores this fall and will open to all high schoolers in August 2020.

Friendswood High School teens will end this course with “Shark Tank” style pitch
Friendswood ISD will bring the excitement, stress and challenges of real-world business experience to 20 teens this fall with a new program geared to foster the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Coding class coming to St. Anthony High School
EFFINGHAM — Students at St. Anthony High School will now get hands-on experience with the tech world through a new course offered at the school called MobileMakersEdu.

Rochester Public Schools INCubatoredu Recruits Volunteer Mentors
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A new program at Rochester Public Schools is turning to local businessmen and women for help with inspiring young entrepreneurs.

LHS hosts inaugural Pitch Night for new incubator program
These future business visionaries had spent the school year participating in one of the most challenging scholastic and career programs in the world - The Lewisville Independent School District’s (LISD) INCubatoredu program. This class, more commonly referred to by participants and instructors as the “Incubator program,” is changing lives of students who would prefer to enter the business world directly out of high school.

Barrington village board honors innovative high school students
Barrington village board members this week honored two teenagers for being among the state's top high school business innovators of the year.

Inspiring Entrepreneurs
Students win national contest and help break down gender barriers in business
A program initially launched to help support an Illinois school system looking to introduce business to its students, is now implemented in 363 classrooms throughout the country, impacting 25,000 students with support from 3,200 business community volunteers. INCubatoredu was launched at the start of the 2013-14 school year in the Barrington 220 school district in Barrington, Illinois, by Uncharted Learning, NFP, after a group of local entrepreneurs and community leaders observed that students who had obtained college degrees were still struggling to move out of their parents' homes and start their professions.

Miami University, Uncharted Learning Announce Partnership for Early Business Education
Miami University’s Institute for Entrepreneurship has announced a partnership with an Illinois-based nonprofit that offers entrepreneurial education. The goal? To bring business courses to area high school students.

Student Entrepreneurs Pitch Business Ideas to Investors
Students at Mountain Brook (AL) high school learn how to vet a business idea, design a business, and pitch the business to investors in a unique entrepreneurial curriculum.