L to R: Patrick Geho, Associate Professor; Dorothy Warren, Instructor; Ralph Vaughn,
Guest Speaker, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Inc.; Lee Moss, Guest Speaker, CEO,
Mid South Bank; Kay Blasingame-Boike, Instructor, Marsha Smith, Professor; Rachel
Wilson, Assistant Professor; Stephen Lewis, BCEN Department Chair
House Resolution #699, enacted June 7, 2006, made it official: we should observe a National Entrepreneurship
Week, to support the goals and ideals of entrepreneurship in America.
National Entrepreneurship Week, February 23 through March 1, 2008:
is a week-long effort to celebrate the heritage of entrepreneurship in America!
is being planned by hundreds of organizations who are planning activities for America's
NEW GENERATION of entrepreneurs.
will celebrate the creativity, imagination and innovation of entrepreneurship in all
its forms - business start-ups, social entrepreneurship and enterprising employees
within existing organizations.
will help the education community and business leaders engage in a deeper, on-going
discussion about the power of entrepreneurship to drive the local and national economy.
will celebrate entrepreneurship education through a variety of entrepreneurial activities
and experiences that can help prepare today's youth to be the entrepreneurial leaders
of the future.
will highlight the need to provide rigorous and relevant education for all students.
will involve students of all ages to be a part of the Celebration and have opportunities
to learn the benefits of entrepreneurship.
is about NEW Ideas, NEW Opportunities, NEW Skills, NEW Challenges, NEW Leaders, NEW
Wealth, and CELEBRATING Innovation and the Economic Contributions of Entrepreneurs!
will celebrate the creativity, contributions, and achievements of entrepreneurs in
your community, your state and our nation.
will provide visible ways to highlight the contributions and thank entrepreneurs for
their contributions to the economy.