Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2016
PRWeb June 17, 2016 11:30am
Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge: Winners receive $20,000 plus awards for their schools or organizations.
New York, New York (PRWEB) June 17, 2016
The winners of the 2016 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge – an open, online call for creative solutions to contemporary challenges, presented by The Moody's Foundation – were announced by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), which ran the competition.
There were two categories for the 2016 Challenge: Health Helper Challenge and the Community Defender Challenge which asked small groups of young people (ages 14-19) to think about and create ways to promote healthier living and advance community values. Two prizes of $5,000 each were awarded in each category – four prizes total – to the winning teams. An additional award of $500 per winning entry – four in all – was given to the sponsoring school or social organization of the winning team.
The winners of this year's Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge are:
Health Helper Challenge
FoodHero's Helper – Adjudicator and Public Voting Winner
FoodHero's Helper is a team of two students from ITE College East (Institute of Technical Education) in Singapore. FoodHero is a mobile application designed to help caregivers keep preschoolers occupied while providing nutrition information through an interactive game that includes a grocery purchase and delivery option.
Community Defender Challenge
ARIVE – Adjudicator Winner
ICDC Redemption Squad – Public Voting Winner
ARIVE is a team of two students from San Leandro High School in the San Francisco Bay Area. ARIVE is an app that helps people create a profile, share feedback, and connect with others to achieve visual results for improving their community.
ICDC Redemption Squad is a team of three first year students at UCLA. Their idea is CLUB CONNECT, an application for new students at the University of California, Los Angeles. Club Connect helps students filter and find school organizations.
Approximately 100 teams registered for the 2016 Challenge with student teams representing Great Britain, Ireland, Singapore and the United States. Two runner-up teams will share a $1,000 award, plus a prize of $250 for their school or youth serving organization.
The Challenge was designed and managed by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) – an international non-profit which teaches young people to think like entrepreneurs and provides them with tools and attitudes to overcome adversity and address future personal, economic, community and global challenges.
"The Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge is a fun and rewarding activity for young people to offer new ideas, their ideas, to meet today's challenges," said Shawn Osborne, President and CEO of NFTE. "That kind of creative, entrepreneurial thinking will help students over their lifetime as well as make our communities, businesses and schools better."
"Vibrant, rich and growing communities all over the world thrive on innovation and creativity – especially among young people," said Frances Laserson, President of The Moody's Foundation. "That's why we are delighted to work with NFTE to challenge young people and reward their entrepreneurial thinking."
The Moody's Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Moody's Corporation, is committed to supporting education, in particular the study of mathematics, finance and economics. The Foundation also funds specific initiatives in the areas of global economic development, microfinance, civic, health and human services as well as arts and cultural programs. The Foundation supports programs located in select metropolitan areas in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. For more information, please visithttps://moodysi2i.nfte.com.
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is an international nonprofit that activates the entrepreneurial mindset in young people and builds their knowledge about business startup. Students acquire the entrepreneurial mindset (e.g., innovation, self-reliance, comfort with smart risk), alongside business, STEM, and presentation skills—equipping them to drive their best futures in the 21st Century. NFTE focuses its work on under-resourced communities, with programs in 23 locations in 10 countries. To learn more, visit http://www.nfte.com, like NFTE on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/NFTE, or follow us on Twitter at @NFTE.
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Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/16/06/p8125010/network-for-teaching-entrepreneurship-winning-young-innovators-announce#ixzz4C4xxQSqa
http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/16/06/p8125010/network-for-teaching-entrepreneurship-winning-young-innovators-announce
PRWeb June 17, 2016 11:30am
Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge: Winners receive $20,000 plus awards for their schools or organizations.
New York, New York (PRWEB) June 17, 2016
The winners of the 2016 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge – an open, online call for creative solutions to contemporary challenges, presented by The Moody's Foundation – were announced by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), which ran the competition.
There were two categories for the 2016 Challenge: Health Helper Challenge and the Community Defender Challenge which asked small groups of young people (ages 14-19) to think about and create ways to promote healthier living and advance community values. Two prizes of $5,000 each were awarded in each category – four prizes total – to the winning teams. An additional award of $500 per winning entry – four in all – was given to the sponsoring school or social organization of the winning team.
The winners of this year's Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge are:
Health Helper Challenge
FoodHero's Helper – Adjudicator and Public Voting Winner
FoodHero's Helper is a team of two students from ITE College East (Institute of Technical Education) in Singapore. FoodHero is a mobile application designed to help caregivers keep preschoolers occupied while providing nutrition information through an interactive game that includes a grocery purchase and delivery option.
Community Defender Challenge
ARIVE – Adjudicator Winner
ICDC Redemption Squad – Public Voting Winner
ARIVE is a team of two students from San Leandro High School in the San Francisco Bay Area. ARIVE is an app that helps people create a profile, share feedback, and connect with others to achieve visual results for improving their community.
ICDC Redemption Squad is a team of three first year students at UCLA. Their idea is CLUB CONNECT, an application for new students at the University of California, Los Angeles. Club Connect helps students filter and find school organizations.
Approximately 100 teams registered for the 2016 Challenge with student teams representing Great Britain, Ireland, Singapore and the United States. Two runner-up teams will share a $1,000 award, plus a prize of $250 for their school or youth serving organization.
The Challenge was designed and managed by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) – an international non-profit which teaches young people to think like entrepreneurs and provides them with tools and attitudes to overcome adversity and address future personal, economic, community and global challenges.
"The Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge is a fun and rewarding activity for young people to offer new ideas, their ideas, to meet today's challenges," said Shawn Osborne, President and CEO of NFTE. "That kind of creative, entrepreneurial thinking will help students over their lifetime as well as make our communities, businesses and schools better."
"Vibrant, rich and growing communities all over the world thrive on innovation and creativity – especially among young people," said Frances Laserson, President of The Moody's Foundation. "That's why we are delighted to work with NFTE to challenge young people and reward their entrepreneurial thinking."
The Moody's Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Moody's Corporation, is committed to supporting education, in particular the study of mathematics, finance and economics. The Foundation also funds specific initiatives in the areas of global economic development, microfinance, civic, health and human services as well as arts and cultural programs. The Foundation supports programs located in select metropolitan areas in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. For more information, please visithttps://moodysi2i.nfte.com.
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is an international nonprofit that activates the entrepreneurial mindset in young people and builds their knowledge about business startup. Students acquire the entrepreneurial mindset (e.g., innovation, self-reliance, comfort with smart risk), alongside business, STEM, and presentation skills—equipping them to drive their best futures in the 21st Century. NFTE focuses its work on under-resourced communities, with programs in 23 locations in 10 countries. To learn more, visit http://www.nfte.com, like NFTE on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/NFTE, or follow us on Twitter at @NFTE.
For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/06/prweb13482819.htm
Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/16/06/p8125010/network-for-teaching-entrepreneurship-winning-young-innovators-announce#ixzz4C4xxQSqa
http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/16/06/p8125010/network-for-teaching-entrepreneurship-winning-young-innovators-announce
Feb. 7, 2016
All Female Teams of High School Business Students Win International World Series of Innovation!
TRIPLE CROWN!! Thanks to all of our school and community members who reposted and voted! Our ALL FEMALE TEAMS of students at our SLHS Academy for Business and Finance have demonstrated brilliance, rigor and collaboration in this International App Design/ Innovation competition, The World Series of Innovation. I am proud to announce that Team Tiffany, with Sophomores Janet Nguyen and Tiffany Hua Have won the Adjudicator's Choice (Judges) for their IFRC Innovation App Design, VolYOUTeer! https://innovation.nfte.com/projects/team-tiffany-s-project As well, Team Jewelly, with our seniors, Lara, Maggie and Diana with help from our Community and collaboration, took home a People's Choice award in the Coa Cola Bottled Water Challenge. https://innovation.nfte.com/projects/jewelly This same team of amazing young women also won, the Adjudicator's Choice in the Pitney Bowes Mentor Challenge, for their App Talent Trade https://innovation.nfte.com/projects/talent-trade These student teams have won $2500.00 to be split among their team members for each winning innovation. Special thanks to our SLHS and EdenROP community that voted daily and to all the support from NFTE Bay Area Team and volunteer mentors. Girl Power in Innovation!
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January 2016
Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship World Series of Innovation It is with great pride that I announce that of the over 800 international entries in the International Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship World Series of Innovation competition, 11 of the 60 semifinalists came from the SL Academy for Business and Finance. We had the most submissions from any one program making it to the semi-finals. We have several double and triple crown team members, who were one more than one team, and had kids from all three grade levels in the academy representing in the semi-final winners circle. Next steps is them perfecting and uploading final commercials, and in late January, we find out the top three in each of the categories, as decided by new judges and then online People's Choice voting will begin! I am so proud of all the students who innovated and entered their submissions. Semi-Finalist Winning teams are: In the Coca-Cola Bottled Water Brand Challenge: Jewelly - Lara Friedlund, Maggie Mehari & Diana Grande Glow Up Water Bottle- "Melissa Martinez, Norielle Lopez, Manny Manuel Bubba Carrasco In the International Federation of Red Cross/ Red Crescent Volunteer for a Change Challenge Causelt - Lara Friedlund, Maggie Mehari & Diana Grande VolYOUteer-Tiffany Hua and Janet Nguyen Can-Care - Kardiere Johnson Hale, Keturah Fluker, Makyla Price, Breanah Gould ,Gino Long In the Go Daddy Business Builder Challenge Engineered Equity - Joanna Villalobos, Christian Gonzalez and Celia Xie Work Hard-Study Harder -Ariel Williams & Lauren Adona In the Pitney Bowes Mentor Momentum Challenge World2 Me - Roshini Solano, Leylani Flores and Elio Arcos Talent Trade- Lara Friedlund, Maggie Mehari & Diana Grande Microsoft School Improvement Fem Gen Simone Hufana, Janet Nguyen, Tiffany Hua Fresh Shot: Romney Cola and Elon Hufana |
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Check out what some of our Academy for Business and Finance Students did in the Summer of 2016.
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-San Leandro High boasts four winning entrepreneur teams-San Jose Mercury -San Leandro High Wins Big in a National Apps Contest-Contra Costa Times -Young Innovators Announced for NFTE World Series of Innovation (WSI) -NFTE Announces Winners for the World Series of Innovation We are so proud to announce that our Academy of Business and Finance Academy has won in ALL the categories we had finalists. This small school-within-a-school Career and Technical Education program had the MOST finalist teams in the United States in the 2014 World Series of Innovation. Through our project based-blended learning program, we are constantly thinking outside the box, and this honor is well earned by these student teams. San Leandro has the MOST finalist teams in this international competition, a competition in which over 5000 entries were received in 7 categories. - Juniors Maggie Mehari and Lauren Adona with their redesign of a 4 star indian restaurant converting to a Bollywood-style nightclub with street food after hours, in their project "Joonan Nightlife"CATEGORY: Help Junoon Set the WOrld On Fire: TITLE: Junoon Nightlife Link: http://innovation.nfte.com/projects/team-makda-s-project - Juniors Lara Friedlund, Angelo Belenson and Diana Grande with their App Design to connect entrepreneurs and businesses world-wide. WE2B" CATEGORY: GoDaddy Business Builder Challenge TITLE: WE2B LInk: http://innovation.nfte.com/projects/we2b - Sophomores Keturah Fluker, Kardiere Johnson Hale, Vaijon Hortan and Abril Rubalcaba for their App Design called, "My Look Out" an App to help protect people of all ages who may find themselves in a dangerous situation and need help CATEGORY:Microsoft App for School Improvement TITLE: My Look Out Link: http://innovation.nfte.com/projects/team-keturah-s-project - Seniors Sharon Pham, Kamarri Williams and Marielle Lopez with their app Design for students new to a community and wanting to fit in, and find friends and places that meet their interests in their new community called "Connect Teen" CATEGORY: Pitney Bowes Student Geolocation Challenge TITLE: CONNECTeen LInk: http://innovation.nfte.com/projects/team-sharon-2-s-project
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Expected Program Learning Results
Upon Graduation, Eden Area R.O.P. students will be able to:
- Exhibit within the classroom and workplace environment positive attitudes, self-confidence,honesty, perseverance, and self-discipline.
- Understand concepts in group dynamics, conflict resolution, and negotiation.
- Work cooperatively, share responsibility, accept supervision, and assume leadership roles.
- Understand career path and strategies for obtaining employment in their chosen fields.
- Assume responsibility for professional growth.
- Understand the purpose of professional organizations.(DECA, NFTE, CTE..)
- Recognize problem situations; identify, locate, and organize needed information or data; and propose, evaluate, and select from alternative solutions.
- Students will: Demonstrate vocational technological skills, which are marketable and will promote a balanced quality of life.
- Understand and adapt to changing technology by identifying, learning, and applying new skills to improve job performance.
- Effectively employ technologies relevant to their fields.
Upon Graduation, Eden Area R.O.P. students will be able to:
- Students will: Demonstrate self-confidence, responsibility and work ethics by:
- Exhibit within the classroom and workplace environment positive attitudes, self-confidence,honesty, perseverance, and self-discipline.
- Students will: Demonstrate sense of ethical behavior, and respect for individual rights, diverse cultures, lifestyles and viewpoints.
- Understand concepts in group dynamics, conflict resolution, and negotiation.
- Work cooperatively, share responsibility, accept supervision, and assume leadership roles.
- Students will: Have a working knowledge and understanding of their field of study.
- Understand career path and strategies for obtaining employment in their chosen fields.
- Assume responsibility for professional growth.
- Understand the purpose of professional organizations.(DECA, NFTE, CTE..)
- Students will: Be critical thinkers, effective communicators, and collaborative workers who are self directed and adaptable learners.
- Recognize problem situations; identify, locate, and organize needed information or data; and propose, evaluate, and select from alternative solutions.
- Students will: Demonstrate vocational technological skills, which are marketable and will promote a balanced quality of life.
- Understand and adapt to changing technology by identifying, learning, and applying new skills to improve job performance.
- Effectively employ technologies relevant to their fields.
