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h. Program prepares young people for the realities of navigating college culture, environment
and curriculum.
i. Program promotes an awareness of process and fosters the understanding that worthwhile
things take time.
j. Program staff models, values and recognizes persistence and hard work to attain goals.
k. Program provides young people opportunities to discuss their future plans and strategies
with their peers.
l. Program helps young people prepare for, reflect upon and discuss new experiences and
their significance to their goals in higher education.
m. Program guides young people in managing stress.
4. Program promotes development of the soft skills needed for higher education.
a. Program promotes independence in working.
b. Program promotes goal-setting.
c. Program helps young people develop skills in time management, priority setting, financial
management and materials management.
d. Program guides young people in exploring how they learn best and creates opportunities
for them to claim and name their individual learning styles.
e. Program provides young people with guided as well as independent opportunities to do
research and synthesize that information.
f. Program provides young people with opportunities to break work down into steps.
g. Program creates opportunities for recognition and celebration of the accomplishment
of these steps and goals.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
The dot-com boom may have come and gone, but in the marketplace of the 21st
century there are still more opportunities than most adults can imagine to create, grow
and profit from original business ideas. Entrepreneurship development not only offers young
people a fun experience that can provide a source of income and increase their feelings of
mastery and future, it also teaches the kinds of skills, processes and big-picture thinking that
easily translate to almost any other endeavor. With its emphasis on learning through doing,
after school is a natural arena for testing out what it takes to see a process from conception
through completion.
1. Program helps young people understand what it means to be an entrepreneur
and how to evaluate and build upon their own related skills.
a. Program facilitates discussion and identification of what an entrepreneur does, what it
takes to succeed, and how it fits into the business world.