Youth Workgroup Leader

 Toni Hughes Glassgoe

Youth Group Meeting

Thursday April 24, 2008

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

At Lansing Community College-MainCampus

Health and Human Service Building (HHS)

Room 105

515 N Washington Square

Lansing MI 48966

The Youth workgroup will meet separately to discuss the issues that arose in the March 14th meeting that pertain to Youth.  These include: Summer Camp for Youth, Summer Institute for teachers to learn entrepreneurship curriculum, and Certifying teachers to teach Entrepreneurship. If you would like to be included in the next Youth meeting, please contact Toni Glasscoe directly - glassct@email.lcc.edu

• The panel discussion was very informative and participants were encouraged to focus on: relationship building, networking and funding. Toni stated that she believes Dennis knows that Michigan is serious about doing business differently than in the past by 1) working collaboratively 2) not waiting for the manufacturing slump to be over and then returning to the way we used to do business, but looking for other options 3) networking with in-state foundations and 4) to be open to looking at Best Practices, i.e. bringing in CASE. As a result, the Kauffman Foundation would be a good source of brainstorming. LCC, on the other hand needs to do a better job through the Banner system to capture student tracking data in order to substantiate success. The Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) is doing an excellent job at capturing data and utilizing the data to make decisions. Toni has requested that the LCC Banner Team make sure that there are attributes assigned to student data to allow tracking such as how many students are receiving articulated credit in specific programs of study; how many of those students are moving on to an associates degree or certificate of completion or how many of those students are transferring to a four-year institutions. We are currently marketing to 250, 16-18 year olds that have received articulated credit in a marketing or business course or have taken a high school course in one of these two areas. We are encouraging those students to enroll in LCC business courses, to take a course that is part of the Entrepreneurial Studies Certificate of Completion program and receive training through the SBTDC. We would like to also connect those students through the entrepreneurship initiative with the Generation “E” Institute and the LCC Business department. Currently, Kelly Williams of DeWitt HS teaches the only entrepreneurship course in our tax district. All of our other partners teach marketing or introduction to business courses. Due to the information shared in the breakout sessions with Dennis, Toni is entertaining the idea of marketing to students interested in science and technology, collaboration, team-building, knowledge transfer, etc instead of entrepreneurship for our summer youth camp. Toni suggested we partner with Bobby Bringi, President and CEO, MBI Intl., Mike Poterala, Executive Director of MSU Technologies, Michigan State University and Jim Lynch, Manager, Spartan Ventures, Michigan State University Foundation to tap into high school students.

• There is a possibility that the workgroup’s website information at www.midmichiganlearningcommunities.pbwiki.com can be moved to the “We Too” website. “We Too” all about your business® assists resource providers and businesses to locate information and tracks their progress throughout the website. Toni suggested that “We Too” template be used as a platform for the workgroup.