Lake Highland Entrepreneurs High School. Business. History...
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About Entrepreneurship
EntrepreneurshipCredit: .5 Semester: 2 Period: 2 Instructor: Mr. Vander Lugt Room: Rex 204 |
In the fall of 2006, Lake Highland Preparatory School created a new course for the following school year - Entrepreneurship. The class was designed to teach student the ins and outs of a small business by the means of a traditionally text book course. A instructor was picked to teach the class and several students signed up (although it wasn't listed in the course curriculum). But as the 2007-2008 school year approached, the instructor who was chosen could no longer teach the course the following semester, so Lake Highland Prep went in search of a new teacher. A faculty member, Jane Beaucher, referred one of her family friends, Mark Hayes - a local entrepreneur who had always been impressed by Lake Highland Prep., to the school. It was then settled, Mark would be the teacher.
When Mark heard of the course, he saw potential in it. While he was holding his infant daughter one morning, he came up with the idea of the "course" - to allow high school students to start their own company, raise capital, create a product, pay back investors, and later sell the company. On the first day of class, 11 eager students came in and were shocked by what they were about to be endeavoring. During the following five school days, six additional students joined the course and the journey began. |