Metro Detroit student entrepreneurs will take the stage to present their unique and innovative business plans before a panel of local leaders of industry and a public audience!
At the 2015 event, Fordson High School senior, Ahmed Beydoun, owner and CEO of BigTime Graphics was awarded $1,116 in startup funding, a $500 gift card and a membership to Sam's Club, courtesy of Sam's Club, and advanced to the Young Entrepreneurs Academy Saunders Scholars Regional Competition, where he competed for additional funding and the opportunity to compete in the National Competition!
Another student, to be chosen by our panel, will have the same opportunity!
The Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) is a groundbreaking and exciting 30 week class that transforms Metro Detroit middle and high school students into real, confident entrepreneurs. Throughout the class, students develop business ideas, write business plans, conduct market research, pitch their plans to a panel of investors, and actually launch and run their own real, legal, fully formed companies and social movements. Founded in 2004 at the University of Rochester with support from the Kauffman Foundation, the Young Entrepreneurs Academy today serves thousands of students in communities across America.
For more information contact Ron Hinrichs, Director of Events & Media Relations and YEA! Program Manager at 313-584-6100.
