Madelyn Jackson: Helping Children Find Their Voice
Madelyn Jackson is on a mission to help children who are nonverbal or on the spectrum be heard. Her innovative app might be the key to making communicating easier.
An Interview with NFTE President Dr. J.D. LaRock
Youth Time Magazine caught up with NFTE President Dr. J.D. LaRock recently to get his take on the Great Resignation, Build Back Better, the social and economic conditions that can spark entrepreneurship, and NFTE’s newest program for emerging entrepreneurs: Start It Up!
Startup Teens: High Schoolers Prove to Be Top-Grade Entrepreneurs
Impact Volunteer Services, an app to help teens find community service opportunities, is the brainchild of Kaise Tinglin and Sashary Acosta, NFTE students at Palm Beach Gardens High School and winners of the 2021 NFTE Southeast Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge. Tinglin was profiled recently by Florida Trend Magazine.
Startup Teens: High Schoolers Prove to be Top-Grade Entrepreneurs
Seventeen-year-old Kaise Tinglin of West Palm Beach is making waves with her community service matchmaking startup, Impact Volunteer Services.
Community Achievers: OKC Student Advances in Entrepreneurship Challenge
Middle and high school students across the U.S. participated in “Shark Tank”-style pitch competitions organized by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) last spring. Emily Ortiz, of Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School, is among the winners advancing to national competition this month.
OKC Student to Pitch Business on National Stage
Local student entrepreneurs including Emily Ortiz of Cristo Rey Catholic High School in Oklahoma City are slated to face off in a national business pitch competition organized by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).
Lt. Governor Polito to NFTE Students: You are the talent pipeline
Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito visited Barnstable High School to meet NFTE students in the school’s Business, Entrepreneurship & Finance Innovation Pathway.
The NFTE World Series of Innovation: Youth Taking Action on the UN Global Goals
The World Series of Innovation challenges young people to use entrepreneurial thinking to brainstorm solutions for the most critical threats humanity faces today, from climate change to hunger, poverty, and injustice.
Hailey Tucker Could Kickstart Her Soccer Business With Prize in National Competition
The FPC junior’s business idea started with the agony of her own feet. Now the young entrepreneur and athlete is set to compete against dozens of other student founders from around the country at the NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge.
Newport Teen with Raynaud’s Syndrome Develops New Product
The Boston Globe’s weekly Ocean State Innovators column profiles NFTE alum Anthony Wilds, founder of Hot Bandz.