Month: July 2012

As I mentioned in my previous post, Youth CITIES is actively supporting Ingrid Li’s campaign for youth entrepreneurship. Ingrid is an amazing Winchester High School student, and Founder of the Entrepreneurial Youth Society (EYS). EYS is dedicated to promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship among youth across America. If you are interested in supporting the campaign, feel free to drop by the State House (Nurse’s Hall) on July 25th at 10:30am. There will be a rotating list of speakers, followed by a networking reception. The State House speaker agenda includes the following: Representative Jason Lewis, District Winchester Representative Senator Katherine Clark, Vice-Chair of Committee on Small Business Representative Alice Peisch, Chair of Committee on Education Tim Rowe, CEO and Founder of Cambridge Innovation Center Vicky Wu Davis, Founder and Executive Director…

Youth CITIES is happy to support Ingrid Li on her youth entrepreneurship campaign at the State House on July 25th. Ingrid is a very passionate student at Winchester High School, and we are so excited to join her in bringing awareness to teens about the power of entrepreneurship.

I am very excited to be launching our brand new website! It is almost done, but some of it is still under construction. I’m very excited to have a “virtual incubator” available for any past or present Youth CITIES student, where mentors and peers can help make the idea into a reality...that will be available some time in early August....more info on it soon. The other program that I’m in the process of creating is a “Tech Tinkering Track”. Entrepreneurs get inspired in different ways, and by different activities. My goal is to have hands-on technology creation sessions where the goal is just to figure out how to build a product (whether it’s a robot, a videogame, a new design for a soda can top, etc) that somehow benefits a…