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Ignite entrepreneurial thinking with VentureLab’s free entrepreneurship education resources! Discover hands-on activities, downloads and printables, and ESTEAM-based challenges that empower students of all ages to develop essential skills, think critically, and collaborate effectively.
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The Struggle to Engage Girls in Steam Subjects

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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Too few girls pursue careers in technology, computer science, engineering, and the complement of eSTEAM subjects. All over the country, parents, teachers and industry leaders have studied, surveyed, incentivized, intervened, mentored, recruited. They’ve done everything they think they can do to encourage more girls to pursue eSTEAM. There are fantastic programs, such as First Bytes,…

Building a Youth Entrepreneurship Movement: Our Year in Review

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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In the spirit of reflection and appreciation for those who have made VentureLab’s tremendous growth possible, I want to share the impact that we are making in our efforts to spread youth entrepreneurship education around the world. A big THANK YOU, to those who support our work, donate to our cause, and help spread our mission…

Sparking Curiosity and Creativity in Girls

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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By thinking entrepreneurially and diving into ESTEAM education, girls can become the leaders that our economy and society needs. In these next few blogs, I will tell you the story of one brilliant entrepreneur, Bri Connelly, who learned grit and determination and applied it to her career. Computer science wasn’t on Bri Connelly’s radar as…

Diversity: Our National Imperative

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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Our nation’s future depends on instilling entrepreneurial skills in all students, with a focus on diversity and inclusion. Learn how fostering curiosity, confidence, and a growth mindset in young women can reshape the future of business and innovation.

Getting Serious About Entrepreneurial Education: Finland’s Story

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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You might think that the U.S. must lead the world in teaching entrepreneurial skills to our youth. Actually, no. Many school officials under pressure to raise test scores are understandably resistant to any proposal that requires more classroom time with so many competing demands. Good intentions have led the U.S. to obsess on raising standardized…

Wanted: Entrepreneurs

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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“True entrepreneurs are rare—and getting rarer. Yet it is crucial to our economy and national security that we find them,” says Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup, whose company closely watches social trends. “Without a growing entrepreneurial economy, there are no new good jobs,” he says. “We are focused on innovation. But what we need are…

The Importance of Entrepreneurial Education For Girls

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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I’ve been sharing the story of my life as an outlier—a Hispanic woman, engineer and entrepreneur—to show how my profound enthusiasm for encouraging girls to learn entrepreneurialism was born. I’m continuing my story here. While I was teaching entrepreneurship at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, I observed the lack of confidence of many young…

An Outlier Engineer: Using Experince to Springboard Into a New Feild

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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I’ve been sharing the story of my life as a Hispanic woman engineer, and why my career and background led me to being so driven to help teach girls entrepreneurialism and confidence. I’m continuing my story here. As a product development engineer at 3M, I designed copper connectors for automated test equipment. For a lot…

Talking About Failure

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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Dinner conversations at the Blakely household had an unusual twist. Each night at the table, Sara Blakely’s father would ask her, “What have you failed at today?” And she would recount her successes and setbacks, learning to move beyond failure. By the time she entered college, Sara Blakely was steeped in failure and experienced at…

Helping Children Acquire a Growth Mindset

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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Can children be induced to adopt a growth mindset? We encourage children to dream up new ideas, whether gigantic or nano-sized—often intersecting several disciplines. Whether or not children think they are “good” at various subjects, we encourage them to go where their ideas lead them. Who has ever accomplished something startlingly new without believing it…

Cultivating a Growth Mindset

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
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Your brain can change. It can grow. You can develop new abilities to do things you never thought possible. At VentureLab, we begin each entrepreneurial course with these types of thoughts. We encourage children to work through their fear of failure and dispel notions of their own “weaknesses,” pessimistic preconceptions, and subconscious thought patterns that can hold…

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