We are currently working on securing a limited amount of scholarship money to assist applicants who are accepted and who demonstrate financial need. If you are a need-based student, please request Statement of Financial Need Form from gesummer@lehigh.edu [2]. Return the completed Statement of Financial Need Form with your application. Please note that scholarship funding is limited; there is no guarantee that students who apply for scholarship funding will receive it.
The Iacocca Global Entrepreneurship Intensive is a unique, four-week, residential summer program for high school students held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. Students who are accepted are highly motivated, thoughtful, hard-working, and entrepreneurial in character. The program brings together American students with international students from all regions of the world.
Students will attend sessions on topics pertaining to entrepreneurship, global networking, team building, project management, leadership and working in a culturally diverse environment. Sessions are facilitated by Lehigh faculty members as well as entrepreneurs and leaders of the business community. All students will attend core courses, as well as have the option to select elective courses each week. Entrepreneurial exchanges with leaders from business, industry, government, education and the non-profit community will be part of each weekly schedule, as will entrepreneurial excursions to local sites of interest, including New York City.
Working in teams according to skill and interest areas, students are assigned a real-world company where they work on a consulting project for that organization. Students prepare a formal marketing or business plan and presentation for the company executives.
Watch this video here [3] to get a feel for this program experience!
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Links:
[1] https://global.lehigh.edu/iacocca-institute/high-school/lehigh
[2] mailto:gesummer@lehigh.edu
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeXUIr3krx8
STUDENT COMMENTS
"Governor’s school at Lehigh University was a summer program about global entrepreneurship, business and how we must use all our creativity in terms of creating the best company in the future! Every day we had classes-speeches of the best entrepreneurs – CEOs of the companies of the world Carlos Vieira, Bob Thomson- regional manager Ben Franklin technology partners of northeastern Pennsylvania, Janet Slom – artist/teacher/entrepreneur, Dr. Sinclair- accounting professor at Lehigh, Demetri Patitsas – founder, CEO of absolute Creo LLC, Dr. Stephan Grabherr- Deputy Consul General Federal republic of Germany Consulate and so many other important people.
All the 78 students (14 international students J) were separated into 13 groups and each of them had to do a project. My group was ArtsLehigh. Our job as a group was to make the ArtsLehigh program as popular as we could. We had to make a video that Mrs. Silagh White- the director of ArtsLehigh would show to the freshman class of 20012! In the video we included interviews of entrepreneurs, professors and students and other special features! With this podcast we wanted to show how important creativity is in business and how we must all be encouraged to try and seek new experiences even if we know that we are going to fail. Because as I learnt this summer without failure there is NO success!
SO when we were done with the podcast we also had to make a unique centerpiece, boarder –to give an idea of what we’ve been doing those 5 weeks and the paper where we explain our purpose of our project. The last day was the presentation of all the groups’ projects!
The program was really really intense and with lots of sometimes stupid rules. But what they were trying to do was to keep us in a really strict schedule like all the entrepreneurs and businessmen. Despite that I had so much fun that it was really difficult to me to leave the last day. We had mandatory fun every day and we had international food two or three times a week!"
"Pennsylvania school of global entrepreneurship is a program which provides business oriented lectures, unique experiences such as a trip to NYC, visits to UN courts and Harrisburg PA, and fun activities...which are mandatory of course! Learn about the business world and experience the work of entrepreneurs first hand, while creating memories with 76 other people from all over the world!"
"This program is one of the greatest opportunities you will ever have. It will teach you numerous thing related to not only business, but accounting, finance, leadership skills, and yourself.The most important thing about this program is that it gives many opportunities to expose yourself to new information."
"I got in touch with people from all around the world, learned new cultures and studied business."
"In the program you have the chance to listen to a lot of different speakers and teachers and learn and see different perspectives of the entrepreneurial world. Throughout the 4 weeks you also work on a project of a real company as part of a group. In IGEI you also learn how to live as an American university student too. It is an amazing life experience and for sure it whould help someone to understand better what they want to do later in life."
"This is an intensive entrepreneurship program. Every course and activity is very well organized and the people who work there help and guide you throughout the whole program with passion. The projects are all very interesting and will add many things to your life and help you gain experience for the business world. All the events taking place in the program inside and outside of the campus are incredible.In this program you learn things about business that you’d never had the chance to learn at school, but also the things you learn you can use them throughout the business course in the IB. This program is just incredible."