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Date: July 9-15, 2009
Event: Advanced Biz Camp for Young Entrepreneurial Students

The Tate Center for Entrepreneurship hosts the third annual YEScarolina Advanced Youth Entrepreneurship program. It is a week-long residential summer program held at the College of Charleston for the top twelve youth entrepreneurs of South Carolina from July 9 - July 15, 2009. The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Advanced Teacher Training Class for Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers will also be offered for 41 South Carolina public school teachers at the Tate Center for Entrepreneurship, July 14 - July 16, 2009.

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YEScarolina, a Program Partner of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), is a nonprofit organization created to offer South Carolina educators the opportunity to utilize curriculum written by acclaimed business teacher Steve Mariotti, founder of NFTE. YEScarolina was recently named National Program Partner of the Year by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Through entrepreneurship education, YEScarolina helps young people from communities statewide build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. From 2003 to 2008, YEScarolina has trained 380 NFTE Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers that have in turn touched thousands of young South Carolinians with this wonderful and innovative entrepreneurship curriculum. The College Of Charleston/ Motley Rice program will be taught by one of these Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers, Lancie Affonso.

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Date: July 14-16, 2009  (Session only for existing CET’s)
Event: Adv Teacher Training for Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers
Location: College of Charleston - Tate Center, Room 207

SC public school teachers who have already participated in the initial Certified Entrepreneurship Teacher training session take their training to a more advanced level with instruction from Entrepreneurship professor, Dr. John Clarkin, and information technology teacher, Lancie Affonso. Teachers will get trained on the following topics: 1) Entrepreneurship, research and financing, and 2) Entrepreneurship and technology. YEScarolina in partnership with the Tate Center for Entrepreneurship offers the training at no cost for teachers.

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