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Causes: Food
Mission: To encourage youth to explore entrepreneurship and self-employment through the recognition and development of their inventive creative thinking and problem solving skills.
Programs: Provides entrepreneurial education to students in grades three to eight, writes and maintains curricuum and providses technical support and tutorials to the education community youth organizations and home school families. Continuing education credit is offered. The project learning guide i available free of charge online. Marketplace organizes educational days during their fiscal year with thousands of participants. A compeitive event for the students interesting in taking their project to the next level. Classes and activities are designed to help students discover entrepreneurship, exploye career oppertunities, new technology and develop self-employment, financal literacy and leadership skills, students create a business, invent a technology project and present their model at the regional education days volunteers are utilized for the marketplace for kids program model.