Pennsylvania Governor's School for Global Entrepreneurship
MULTIPLE COURSE OPTIONS
Lehigh University
Pennsylvania, Bethlehem
LK 1, LK 2/ IB 1
PROGRAM SPECIFICS
Jul 3 2016 - Jul 30 2016 --
27 days
Non-partnership Competitive - ( NPC )
Feb 5 2016
$3,450
Competitive scholarships available
DESCRIPTION
The Pennsylvania Governor’s School for Global Entrepreneurship for outstanding high school students from around the world. Working in partnership, Lehigh’s College of Education and College of Business and Economics develop the applied curriculum and deliver the five-week residential academic program each summer. Sixty-four students are from Pennsylvania and twelve are international students. Last year our international high school students represented Greece, England, Antigua-Barbuda, Italy, Ireland, Belarus, Israel, Palestine, Kuwait, Guatemala, Columbia and Denmark. The purpose of the Governor’s School for Global Entrepreneurship is to expose Pennsylvania high school and international high school students to the topic of global entrepreneurship, leadership and effective business practices and to ignite the students’ spirit of creativity, innovation, and learning. The applied curriculum includes core and elective courses, entrepreneurial exchanges and excursions, team projects with business partners, and a variety of other interactive experiences and activities. The students are housed on Lehigh University’s campus. The courses are taught by Lehigh faculty members as well as entrepreneurs and leaders of the business community. All students 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 are a part of each daily schedule, as are entrepreneurial excursions to local sites of interest. Students will participate in educational visits to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, United Nations, Mercantile Exchange, Philadelphia Ports and Constitution Center.
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!