🐝 Build an Air Bee & Bee: Think Like an Eco-Entrepreneur!
Welcome to Air Bee & Bee, an ESTEAM® entrepreneurial learning experience designed to spark divergent thinking and environmental empathy.
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Empathy Activation Cards
The Power Skill For Idea Generation Our Empathy Activation Cards are designed to nurture the crucial empathy mindset. By prioritizing empathy, we empower students to move beyond surface-level brainstorming and generate solutions rooted in real-world impact. When students lead with this human-centered mindset, they don’t just “invent”—they solve. It is the essential bridge between a…
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Why Empathy Matters in Entrepreneurship Education
Empathy isn’t just a “soft skill.” It’s a measurable driver of creativity and idea generation.
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Thankful Turkey and Mindset Feather Printables
Practice entrepreneurial thinking this Thanksgiving with VentureLab’s fun and engaging printables! Our “Mindset Feather” activities are great for kids and families to share what they’re grateful for while learning key entrepreneurial traits. Download the free printables and bring creativity and connection to your Thanksgiving celebration!
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Empowering Youth Through Entrepreneurial Learning: Meet Jeremy, a VentureLab Certified Educator in San Antonio
Meet Jeremy Manginell, a VentureLab Certified Educator and Manager of SA Youth’s SOAR Program in San Antonio, Texas. Jeremy is transforming lives through entrepreneurship education, helping high school students earn diplomas, gain vital problem-solving skills, and plan their futures. With over 20 years in education, his work with unhoused youth and underserved communities is creating lasting change.
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VentureLab Partners with Schools of Central Texas (CISCT) AmeriCorps
VentureLab partnered with CIS Central Texas and AmeriCorps to host an inspiring Career Exploration and Innovation training for Austin-area educators. Through hands-on activities, participants explored entrepreneurial mindsets like creativity, resilience, and problem-solving, equipping them to empower the next generation of changemakers.
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Enhance Communication Skills with Printable Body Language Game Cards
Discover VentureLab’s new printable Body Language Game Cards! This versatile resource helps students develop essential communication skills through fun, interactive activities. Perfect for educators looking to enhance their entrepreneurship curriculum and foster soft skills development.
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12 Free Printable Entrepreneurship Valentines
Our free entrepreneurship Valentine printables celebrate a few of the essential entrepreneurship mindsets and skills!
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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!
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Free Resource: Empathy Coupons
This activity asks students to be mindful and “walk in the shoes” of someone they know by considering what makes that person happy, creating a coupon, and then carrying out the action to deliver happiness and take empathy to action.
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Build a Worm House, Think Like an Entrepreneur!
In this activity, youth will build a home for a worm whose house has flooded, using only ordinary materials! But what does building a worm house have to do with entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurial Mindset: Empathy Youth are inspired to use empathy to consider the worm’s needs. As they work, they’ll need to be creative, adaptable, and…
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Mindset of the Month: Adaptability
Discover the power of adaptability in entrepreneurship through the inspiring journey of Emma and Jana, who developed an online publishing platform while navigating different time zones. Learn how adaptability manifests in various forms like acceptance, optimism, self-efficacy, problem-solving, and courage, and how these elements are crucial in overcoming entrepreneurial challenges.
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7 Examples of Entrepreneurial Thinking in Action
Being an entrepreneur is more than starting a business: it’s a way of thinking that can be applied to any opportunity or challenge. Check out these stories to see some of these entrepreneurial mindsets in action!
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Mindset of the Month: Embracing Failure
Most people go out of their way to avoid failure. When they do have a run-in, it’s something to forget about and quickly move past. But not entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs turn around, reach out, and give failure a great big hug. They embrace it, learn from it, and keep working But how do you move from…
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5 Tips for Fostering an Entrepreneurial Learning Environment
Fostering entrepreneurial learning environments is key to championing youth entrepreneurship. As youth entrepreneurship instructors, we should serve as mentors, guides, facilitators and champions. Entrepreneurship is not black and white. It is not 2 + 2 = 4. Many times, even as the instructor, you won’t know the answer! Here are a few tips to frame…
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Tips for Empowering Learning Girls: Part II
To tackle global problems, we need to empower girls with the mindsets and skillset to allow them to grow into passionate innovators.
