Celebrating 10 years: VentureLab’s Impact Report
Learn about VentureLab’s ten year impact report and the impact we had in the year 2022 alone. Thank you for your ongoing support of our organization and its mission.
February 6, 2023
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Youth Virtual Pitch Event replay (from December 1, 2022)
Did you miss our virtual youth pitch event on December 1, 2022? It was amazing! Check out the highlights in this video replay. Thank YOU to our mentors, panelists, audience, and most of all the kids who did the hard work of pitching their ideas at this event. VentureLab holds youth pitch events regularly! Get involved with our next youth pitch event as a panelist, audience, or participant.
December 19, 2022
Thankful Turkey Thanksgiving Game
Get the warm fuzzies with this all-ages Thankful Turkey Thanksgiving game that’s focused on gratitude. There’s no cutting required for this activity; simply print off our Thankful Turkey and pass out some pens, markers, or crayons.
November 14, 2022
New course: Entrepreneurial Mindsets for Educators
We must must practice and model the same entrepreneurial thinking we ask of youth.
VentureLab invites you to join the Entrepreneurial Mindset Course for Educators to practice and grow the same mindsets that you want to see in the youth you serve. The evidence based program uses best practices in adult learning theory and can be used by individuals or groups seeking to imbue their culture with empathy, adaptability, optimism…all the entrepreneurial mindsets and skills.
October 31, 2022
The Wyoming Afterschool Alliance, 4-H, and VentureLab reframe the word “entrepreneur”
The word entrepreneur is often narrowly defined as starting a business. We recognize that it’s more than that and so does the afterschool and 4-H community.
September 23, 2022
Classroom sings the VentureLab Entrepreneur Song
Watch this video of an elementary classroom is singing the VentureLab Entrepreneur Song! It was share with us by Lisa S., an Entrepreneurship Teacher, Nashville, TN. Lisa is teaching our Topics in Entrepreneurship Grades 1-2 curriculum and her class was pretty excited to sing this song about how to be an entrepreneur.
September 20, 2022
Vote for our SXSW Panels
Help us get our sessions on the 2023 programs at the South by Southwest Interactive and Edu conferences! It’s just three easy steps.
August 16, 2022
Introducing our all new Story Starter Generator
Spark creativity, courage and risk-taking with our all new Story Starter Generator! Use this fun online activity to teach and practice brainstorming. It’s flexible and suitable for all ages, or even mixed grade levels!
August 9, 2022
Meet our panelists from June’s Youth Virtual Pitch night
Meet our panelists from June’s Youth Virtual Pitch night. We appreciate them taking the time to volunteer their time to give feedback and mentoring for this event. We appreciate and are deeply grateful to our audience participants, volunteer panelists, donors and young entrepreneurs!
August 3, 2022
16-year-old Kartik’s pitch for his invention, SugarJet
Watch 16 year old Kartik pitch his invention to help diabetics: SugarJet, a painless, permanent and affordable insulin pump. He talks about how his grandmother’s challenges with diabetes inspired him to create this invention, about how this device matches up to competitors, and gets feedback and questions from our panel.
Learn more about our Youth Virtual Pitch Events and register today!
July 31, 2022
Kellee’s pitch for her customizable jewelry business, Kellee’s Little Things
Watch 14 year old Kellee pitch her customizable jewelry business, Kellee’s Little Things, and talk about what inspired her to start it. She took part in our June 2022 Live Virtual Pitch Event. Learn more about our youth virtual pitch events and register today!
July 25, 2022
13-year-old Myiah’s Mocha Beans Boutique Pitch
Watch 13-year-old Myiah pitch her idea for hair and beauty products, Mocha Beans Boutique, during our June 2022 Live Virtual Pitch Event! She talks about her beauty business and the unique products that she’s created, and then she receives feedback from our panelists.
July 21, 2022
Venture Forward with an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Entrepreneurship is more than starting a business, it’s a way of thinking and acting. It’s about identifying opportunities, finding ways to solve problems, and taking
July 19, 2022
Getting Resourceful with the Egg Drop Challenge
The observation challenge asks us to complete a simple observation task but reveals a much bigger surprise about our ability to actively take in the world around us!
April 10, 2022
3 Tips to Increase Diversity in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is essential to our future and, unfortunately, the modern image of entrepreneurship does not reflect our diverse population. This means we are missing out
April 9, 2022
Build a Toy Business Activity
This activity encourages youth to work through the entrepreneurship process and features ideation, market research, prototyping, and pitching. All of this with a fun twist: making a toy business!
December 15, 2021