GoVenture-live the learning

A free newsletter to help educators and facilitators bring business to life!
An overview of the newsletter :
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.  - Oscar Wilde
Bringing Business to Life
• Service Mistake Recovery – Dealing with dissatisfied customers is a normal part of the art of retailing. Read an expert’s view on how to turn   negative into a positive.
• Failure is the mother of success – An education expert says we can learn a lot from our business mistakes.
Fast facts – Toolbox Tips – Free Activity

Dragon’s Den

A CBC television show giving Canadien entrepreneurs the chance of a lifetime – 15 min. to pitch their big idea to a panel of major league investors. This opportunity could provide you with financial support and expose your business on national television.
http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/

Fondation de l’Entrepreneurship

www.entrepreneurship.qc.ca/fr/default.asp
Entrepreneurial Projects, a different way to achieve success at school.
By Matthias Pepin, étudiant à la maîtrise avec mémoire en psychopédagogie
Many of Québec’s schools have a significant percentage of students with social maladjustments or learning difficulties.  To meet the specific needs of these students, the schools generally offer individualized learning paths along with individualized success plans in which the students undertake to achieve personal goals and overcome their own particular challenges.  It is in these special classes that Aubier High School has chosen to develop entrepreneurial competencies, proving that this can be an excellent way of diversifying educational paths.

Entrepreneurship

You will find an article on entrepreneurship education with special needs students at the following address: http://cvrce.entrepreneurship.qc.ca.

http://www.concours-entrepreneur.org/en/etudiant_admissibilite.asp - School personnel can apply for the entrepreneurship measure to develop or enhance an entrepreneurial project.

Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge
http://www.defi.gouv.qc.ca/publications/depliant_defi_en.pdf

The Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition

Creative? Passionate?  If you are both, then you have what it takes to make a real difference in the world!
What's your brilliant idea? Ashoka's Youth Venture invites you to enter the Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition - a global search for the most creative solutions young people like you are dreaming up to benefit your communities and our planet. Post your idea or project at Changemakers.net to find supporters, win prizes, and you might receive up to US$1,000 in funding to advance your project.  Open to youth ages 12 to 24. www.changemakers.net

Community Table sponsored by the CEDECs in Quebec.

There are events related to entrepreneurship for youth and for the community.
http://www.communitytable.ca/website/location.php?id=55

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