🐝 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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Northern Recharge 2026: Empowering Afterschool Professionals Through ESTEAM & Mindset Workshops
VentureLab was honored to lead two interactive sessions at UAN’s 2026 Northern Recharge focused on cultivating entrepreneurial mindsets in youth and the educators who serve them.
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Sponsor Shoutout: Cirrus Logic Showcases Generosity with VentureLab 🌟
Cirrus Logic’s Women’s Leadership Team joined forces with VentureLab on Giving Tuesday, assembling classroom kits to empower under-resourced communities. Their dedication to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in young minds highlights the impact of community support in education.
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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!
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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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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!
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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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A letter from VentureLab’s founder
No matter a girl’s age, background, or experiences, I believe they have the power to change the world. Let me show you how. The born entrepreneur Imagine a girl who at five is an entrepreneurial wonder. She scores at the genius level for thinking outside the box, collaborates beautifully with her friends to solve problems,…
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Starting with a Feather: Free-Range Curiosity (Excerpt from VentureGirls)
Curiosity can inspire incredible new ideas, and practicing curiosity doesn’t have to be done in a structured setting. For an example of everyday curiosity encouraged and explored, dive into this excerpt from VentureGirls, written by VentureLab’s founder, Dr. Luz Cristal Glangchai: A curious girl can be comfortable and confident in environments of uncertainty. She has…
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Embracing Failure with the Tower Challenge
We know that cultivating a mindset of embracing failure doesn’t happen in an instant. It takes consistent practice. Each moment of failure is an opportunity to engage in the cycle of learning and improvement. (Learn more about this and the process of embracing failure on our blog!) Designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs know this process as…
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Curiosity and ‘Creative Mischief’
Is it curiosity or mischief? Sometimes, it’s both! Curiosity naturally involves testing and refining mental models. When creating our entrepreneurial learning programs, we focus on crafting lessons that cultivate curiosity and reward it.
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Build a Worm Home for the Holidays
In this activity, you’ll build a home using everyday materials for a worm whose house has flooded. But what does building a worm home have to do with entrepreneurship? You’ll be inspired to use empathy to consider the worm’s needs. As you work, you’ll be creative, adaptable, and resourceful to build a home with ordinary…
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Exclusive VentureGirls Excerpt, Plus Get to Know Each Other Activity!
Looking for ways to empower girls in your life? We’re sharing this exclusive excerpt from VentureGirls, written by our founder Dr. Cristal Glangchai, on the importance of advocating for girls in STEM fields and beyond! Plus, don’t miss our mentorship activity to help you think about how to build rapport and a relationship with your…
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3 Free Activities to Practice Problem Solving
Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time thinking about and coming up with creative solutions to problems. We call this problem solving!
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Learning the VentureLab Way: Raising Questions and Inspiring Curiosity
When you encourage children’s curiosity, you’re actually enabling learning at a profound level. Take the case of Sue Kolby, a single mother: “My friend salvaged a flat panel television that someone had left beside a dumpster and brought it over to me,” she said, thinking her kids might enjoy having a larger monitor for TV…
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Free Activity: Prototyping Challenge
This activity will get students straight into generating solutions for a user or client’s problems by creating a prototype.
