Youth Entrepreneurship Programs
Helping Build Our Future Generation Of Business Owners
We are proud to offer a wide range of youth entrepreneurship programs for students from kindergarten and up! Each program is unique and offers a chance for the kids to learn hands-on, all while having fun!
Lemonade Day
Lemonade Day is a free, fun, experiential learning program that teaches youth how to start, own and operate their own business – a lemonade stand.
Each child that registers receives a backpack with an Entrepreneur Workbook that teaches them the lessons of Lemonade Day, such as:
- creating budgets
- setting profit-making goals
- serving customers
- repaying investors
- giving back to the community.
Along the way, they acquire skills in goal-setting, problem solving, and gain self-esteem critical for future success.
On Lemonade Day, kids across our region set up lemonade stands and try their hand at business ownership! This is a great opportunity for kids to explore entrepreneurship by managing their own business.
Youth Entrepreneurs Training Initiative (YETI)
Launched in 2015, YETI is an annual locally-focused, high speed business training initiative for senior high-school teens like you.
With startup cash, resources and guidance from Community Futures staff and community partners, we'll help you turn your business idea into a full-time money-maker over the 8 weeks of summer - and well into the future!
Head Start In Business Alberta
We want to plant the seed of entrepreneurship and leadership into Alberta’s young people and encourage students to be enthusiastic about their future.
Head Start in Business Alberta provides FREE in-class programs, as well as public events which are facilitated by a trained coordinator and integrate classroom curriculum to draw the connections between entrepreneurship and educational outcomes.
Head Start in Business Alberta offers experiential and innovative youth programs aimed at making students, kindergarten to grade 12, aware of and excited about, the idea of entrepreneurship.
Head Start offers the following programs:
- Be a Business Bee
- Create a Logo
- Market Your Thoughts
- Start Me Up
- The Amazing Entrepreneurial Race
- Gen E
