Mini-preneur Teaches Biz Skills to 2nd Graders
Eight-year-old Kylee Majkowski wants to teach her peers how to launch a business. She and motherAmanda started an entrepreneurship program last year in McLean, Va., where girls in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades learn things like how to raise money, marketing techniques, and developing business plans. The program is called Little Ladies Inventing Fun Through Entrepreneurship or LLIFTE. It's just been offered in Amanda's neighborhood and now they'relaunching it in schools, with the first being Colvin Run Elementary in Great Falls, Va.(Yahoo no longer allows working from home, but how about from the playground?)
Kylee will present the LLIFTE program, along with her next business idea, at Affinity Lab, a co-working space in Washington, on Thursday. She wants to make LLIFTEmore accessible by taking it online and calling it Tomorrow's Lemonade Stand. (Her Kickstarter campaign has raised over $12k.) Amanda says they've received requests to get the program at schools in other states, including New York and Texas. But Amanda, who runs consulting firm Pratica Partners, wants LLIFTE leaders to be well-trained and vetted before launching more groups.
