Project ECHO

🎉📚 Get Ready for an Epic School Year with Project ECHO! 📚🎉

The countdown to the school season is on, and we’re thrilled to announce that registration is now OPEN for our annual Launching ECHO program kicking off in January 2025! 🚀✨

Are you or your students interested in entrepreneurship or starting your own business? This is your chance to supercharge your classroom or club with a dynamic, project-based entrepreneurial activity with our Launching ECHO curriculum. Imagine your students diving into a one-hour weekly adventure where they’ll brainstorm, build, and pitch their own business ideas! 🧠💡🛠️ Plus, they’ll get to showcase their innovation at the High School Entrepreneurs' Business Plan Competition at the end of the semester!

Whether you’re a teacher, student, or part of a school or club, this is your moment to ignite creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of your students! 🌟🔥

📧 Got questions? Shoot us an email at [email protected].

🚀 Ready to jump in? Register for the program here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciRTKEbfXr26GcT4EkoTZUDkjqBmI_q92nsX59fyO4fGkeOA/viewform

Let’s make this school year unforgettable with Project ECHO! 🎓💼👩‍💻👨‍💻

🚀 Calling all high schoolers! 📚✨ Exciting news: Project ECHO is gearing up for our yearly Launching ECHO entrepreneurship program for January 2025! 🌟 Dive into the world of business plans and entrepreneurship with us as we prep for the big High School Entrepreneurs’ Business Plan Competition coming up in April 2025. 📅💼 Whether you’re exploring career paths or honing your academic strengths, Launching ECHO has something for everyone. Check out more details at ProjectECHO.org/Programs! 🌐

School is out for the summer, but we’re already registering students for our Middle School CEO Program for Fall 2024!

This semester-long introduction to business and entrepreneurship is tailored for tweens, aiming to inspire creativity and practical skills.

The course guides middle school students through the entire process of generating ideas, planning, and ex*****on.

Visit https://www.projectecho.org/middleschool for more information and to enroll.

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Hello teachers, students, administrators, parents who are interested in entrepreneurship! Project ECHO is hosting informational zoom meetings about our programs! Swipe to see the dates and times. To register for the meeting, go to: linktr.ee/ProjectECHO

This is a great opportunity to come and chat about how you can bring an entrepreneurship program to your school!

If those days don’t work for you, but you still have questions?
schedule a 1-on-1 meeting at: www.calendly.com/dianequast

Project ECHO is excited to share that we are moderating the InVisions: Innovate for Inclusion program starting in January 2025. If you are a teacher or administrator looking for a FREE entrepreneurship program to add to your classroom, look no further. Swipe through our post above to see what InVisions is all about.

If you are interested in signing up, visit our enrollment form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciRTKEbfXr26GcT4EkoTZUDkjqBmI_q92nsX59fyO4fGkeOA/viewform.

Or, if you have any questions please feel free to email [email protected] for more information.

Today, we're shining a spotlight on Circle Media from Redondo Union High School, the 2nd place winners of our 2024 Business Plan Competition. 🚀 These young entrepreneurs entered the competition with determination, presenting a meticulously crafted business plan and an innovative idea that left our judges impressed. A big thank you to Circle Media for sharing their Project ECHO experience, and congratulations on your well-deserved win! ⭐

🚀 Middle schoolers igniting their entrepreneurial spirit! 💡 with Project ECHO’s middle school curriculum “Middle School CEO,” students craft killer business ideas from scratch, master teamwork, problem-solving, and killer communication skills. 🔥 This program ends with these young innovators competing in a classroom based pitch competition! 🏆 Spots are open for the fall 2024 semester! To sign up, visit projectecho.org/programs or email [email protected]

Congratulations to all of the high school students who competed in Project ECHO's 2024 Business Plan Competition! Check out our Highlights Newsletter and see what you missed!

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The Winner of the 2024 Social Media Competition goes to *drumroll…* Kathryn Lin and her team from Peer 1 on 1! ⭐Thanks so much for participating and help grow Project ECHO! If you’d like your Project ECHO business plan team to be featured on our social media, please dm us or email us at [email protected]. 🚀

This year, we established a new award in memory of one of Project ECHO’s board members. The Jeff Weigel Road Warrior Award is given to a team embodying Mr. Weigel’s spirit of integrity, generosity and kindness and is dedicated to improving our world. This award celebrates their innovative problem-solving and commitment to the betterment of society. Congrats to Hydro-Gen & SenseStep (Redondo Union and Breakthrough Training Center), the two teams that were given this year’s award.

Congratulations to all of our winners from Project ECHO’s 2024 Business Plan Competition! This year’s winners came from Sewickley Academy, Santa Monica High School, Redondo Union High School, Burlingame High School, and Breakthrough Training Center. (P.S. our overall winner not only competed over Zoom, but they’re also from Pittsburg, PA!)

🎉 The 2024 Business Plan Competition has wrapped up! Huge thanks to all participants, judges, volunteers, and California State University, Dominguez Hills for being amazing hosts. Congratulations to the students who pitched their innovative business plans – your hard work paid off! 💼💡 If you missed out this year, don't worry – it's never too early to start planning for next year's competition! Sign up now at projectecho.org and be part of something incredible!

It’s competition day! The most exciting part of Project ECHO is seeing students participate in our capstone event. The Business Plan Competition is the place where students get to showcase everything they’ve learned this semester through pitching their business plans to the judges. 🚀

We’re excited to see you at CSUDH! If you take any photos please post them, tag us Project ECHO , and us
Good luck to everyone competing and congratulations on all your hard work! ⭐

The 2024 Business Plan Competition is almost here! Just a couple more days until we see students from all over the country pitch their business plans to a panel of judges and compete for cash prizes. Our competition aims to not only crown the winners but to also help build a generation of successful business and community leaders who are willing to take risks!

For more information about the competition (including links to live-stream the competition on Sunday 4/21 and to download the 2024 Competition Program) visit: projectecho.org/competitions

If you are participating in the Competition on Sunday we want to hear from you! Please post any BTS photos, tag us, and use

Project ECHO is excited to announce that we’re officially partnering with CSUDH College of Business Administration and Public Policy to host our 20th Annual Business Plan Competition! Thank you to California State University, Dominguez Hills and Michael Grimshaw, David Ochi, and Dean Wen for helping to make it happen! We’re excited our competition found a new home and can’t wait to see our students pitch their business plans in less than 2 weeks!

For more information about the competition, please visit: www.projectecho.org/competitions

Today, we're hearing from Team "Simply Pill" from St. John Bosco High School, the overall winner of the 2019 Business Plan Competition! These boys showed us that hard work and determination truly pay off.

There's only 24 days left until the 2024 competition. If you're a Project ECHO parent there's plenty you can do to support all the students of Project ECHO on competition day. If you're interested in helping throughout the day, we have slots available for volunteers to assist with set-up, clean-up, the registration table, the swag giveaway table, and lunchtime. Follow this link to sign up: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTExODUy

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1 Month until the 20th annual Business Plan Competition! It’s been almost 20 years of seeing these students present their business plans, show leadership skills, and showcase what they learned about entrepreneurship through participating in Project ECHO. ⚡️⚡️

Project ECHO’s High School Entrepreneurs’ Business Plan Competition simulates the real-world process of entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from investors. On competition day, teams present their start-ups to a panel of judges who will collectively evaluate the quality of the written business plans, along with the presentations. Cash start-up funds (that can be applied toward college) are awarded to the top three teams in each competition category.

This competition aims to not only crown the winners but to also help build a generation of successful business and community leaders who are willing to take risks.

It may be too late for students to sign up for the 2024 Business Plan Competition, but there’s still plenty of ways to participate and support our teens. Visit https://www.projectecho.org/support to see how you can get involved and help impact young entrepreneurs. 🚀

It’s never too soon to start a countdown! There’s only 38 days left until Project ECHO’s 20th Annual Business Plan Competition.

On April 21, 2024 teens from around the country will present their business plans that they’ve been working on all semester, but they still have a few weeks to go!

At this point in the program year, students have completed the ideation phase and enthusiastically settled on a business concept they truly believe in.

Teams have been formed, organizational structures established, and students have eagerly embraced leadership roles like CEO and COO.

Now, they’re researching market analysis, learning all they can about competition, and creating effective marketing strategies for their products or services.

It's truly wonderful to observe the development of these innovative ideas as they prepare for the semester-end capstone event!

Join us as a volunteer in supporting teens on their entrepreneurial and leadership journeys. We offer flexible opportunities to accommodate even the busiest schedules. ✨🚀⚡️

If you are interested in volunteering, please complete the volunteer form here: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTExODUy

For more information, please visit our website at projectecho.org.

Share your entrepreneurial journey with teens!

Project ECHO is hosting the 20th Annual Business Plan Competition on April 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, and we’re looking for speakers!

Are you or anyone you know an innovative entrepreneur who'd like to share their start-up journey with more than 200 middle and high school teens? The entrepreneur keynote speaker will take center stage as they share their story and how they launched their business. Email [email protected] for more information, and please share this post! Help Project ECHO recruit a fabulous speaker for our teens.

https://www.projectecho.org/volunteer

The students of Project ECHO have spoken! Over the years, we’ve asked students about their experience participating in Project ECHO. Swipe to see some of their responses! 🚀⭐️

If you’re a student, alumni, parent, teacher, or anyone who’s been involved with Project ECHO we want to hear from you! Please email us at [email protected] and let us know how Project ECHO has impacted you or your students.

Dreaming of the summer months?😎 Project ECHO has something else for you to look forward to. We’re already enrolling schools in our summer entrepreneurship program, Start Up Summer!

Start Up! Summer is a middle and high school summer program that will inspire your students as they develop solutions to the challenges of tomorrow. Our program is engaging, flexible, and empowering for young entrepreneurs. 🚀

It’s also not just a curriculum, it’s a fully robust program that includes events, guest speakers, and teacher resources.

Visit projectecho.org/startupsummer for all the details and to enroll your school. You and your students won’t want to miss out on this fun summer opportunity!

This Spring 2024 semester, Project ECHO is re-launching Start Up! Virtual Entrepreneurship Club.

We’re on the lookout for all you innovative minds out there who want to dive into the world of entrepreneurship and turn your cool ideas into real businesses.

Join us and learn to ideate, create and launch a business, and compete in a business plan competition for college scholarships. Any schools or students interested can participate!🚀

Visit www.projectecho.org/programs to learn more and to enroll. Share this with anyone you think might be interested! We hope to see you there! ✨

If you’re an entrepreneur searching for more ways to get involved in your community, look no further. Project ECHO is calling on business-minded adults to volunteer and empower our young change-makers ⭐️ Dive into the 2024 spring semester with Project ECHO and help shape a brighter future for our students! Visit projectecho.org/volunteer or tag someone who might be interested!

This Testimonial Tuesday we’re throwing it back a little to one of our 2019 business plan competition winners!
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Don’t forget to sign up for TeenBiz or LaunchingECHO before it’s too late! We’re still accepting enrollment for this 2024 spring semester. We offer in-person and virtual programs to make sure all business minded students have the opportunity to participate. If you’re looking for a last minute program to fill out your entrepreneurial portfolio, sign up today at projectecho.org/programs!