Developing Skills For The Future
Our world needs skilled, innovative workers. Not just any skills—but increasingly specialized as well as wide-ranging ones. According to a World Economic Forum Report, “New
August 22, 2017
Welcome to the VentureLab blog, your hub for innovative entrepreneurial education resources and inspiration. Explore engaging ESTEAM articles, discover free educational resources (hands-on activities and downloads) , and get inspired by classroom and individual success stories from our community.
The VentureLab Difference: ESTEAM
Discover how VentureLab’s unique ESTEAM framework merges entrepreneurship with STEM and the arts to foster innovation and critical thinking among youth. Our curriculum not only teaches important STEM skills but also applies them in creative, real-world contexts, empowering students to become motivated, team-oriented, and problem-solving innovators. Explore our approach to making STEM concepts relatable and engaging, particularly for girls and younger students, through hands-on projects and entrepreneurial education.
August 18, 2017
Engage Girls in STEM: Teach Them to Be Entrepreneurs
Teaching girls to think like entrepreneurs can be the key to unlocking their potential in STEM fields. At VentureLab, we encourage girls to innovate, problem-solve and take calculated risks, and we’ve seen a profound change in their enthusiasm and confidence as a result. By exposing girls to entrepreneurial concepts at a young age, they become more aware of opportunities around them and learn to think creatively. We’ve even seen 5-year-old students become entrepreneurs by identifying a problem, conducting market research, and ultimately creating a successful product. If we want more women innovators, we need to teach girls to observe and anticipate needs, innovate, and take risks.
August 15, 2017
Engage Girls in STEM: Let Them Learn From Failure
I’ve discovered three keys to building our pipeline of women innovators and changemakers. In my last post, I explored the first key: let girls break
August 11, 2017
Keys To Engaging Girls In STEM
Through my experience teaching at the university level, and what I myself have discovered in teaching kindergarten through 12th grade, I’ve identified three keys to
August 8, 2017
Where Are All the Girls in Science?
Girls are gifted in science and math, but they’re missing from fields that need their talents… “More than ever before, girls are studying and excelling
August 4, 2017
Entrepreneurship Education: The Toolbox To Develop Tomorrow’s Changemakers
Friends, I am excited to share that the first half of VentureLab’s brand new youth entrepreneurship curriculum is now available for grades 6-12 and is
August 2, 2017
Instilling a Growth Mindset In Girls
At VentureLab, we encourage creative brainstorming and zeroing in on promising ideas. With our curriculum, girls learn to design and create a prototype, even if it
July 28, 2017
Entrepreneurial Education Sparks Curiosity and Confidence In Girls
I have repeatedly observed remarkable core transformations in girls of all ages who take part in the entrepreneurial exercises of VentureLab. We are demonstrating that
July 25, 2017
How VentureLab Approaches Entrepreneurial Education
Who amongst us has ever accomplished something startlingly new without believing that it would be possible? Entrepreneurial education is all about possibilities. Being able to see
July 21, 2017
From Growth Mindset to Entrepreneurial Mindset
What changes when students develop entrepreneurial skills at a young age? They learn that they can grow their brains, that their brains form new synapses
July 18, 2017
Entrepreneurial Learning Evens The Field For Boys and Girls
Real world examples, hands-on experiences, and entrepreneurial thinking can ignite girls’ interest in math precisely because they are real, relevant, and maybe even positive for girls’ lives, their world, and our planet.
… We can’t accept the simplistic premise that all differences are the result of how girls and boys are “socialized.”
July 14, 2017
Why Gender Matters in Teaching Children
One of the key differences between boys and girls has everything to do with entrepreneurial learning. Girls tend to understand math better when math
July 14, 2017
Using A Growth Mindset To Foster Entrepreneurial Learning
An entrepreneurial mindset is an accelerated growth mindset. In acquiring such a mindset, not only do girls learn that they can make themselves smarter, they
July 11, 2017
Closing The Confidence Gap With a Growth Mindset
A growth mindset is a winning mindset. There is no downside to a girl believing that she has the capacity to grow her intelligence and
July 7, 2017
Allowing Girls to Tap Into Their Potential
When we encourage girls to change their mindset, rather than simply to get good grades, we open up a world of possibilities for them. In
July 4, 2017