Youth Entrepreneur Syndicate - YES

Check out this 1 Million Cups Presentation, which includes a brief description of the Youth Entrepreneur Syndicate (YES), but also include Vedant and Abigail presenting their businesses along with a brief appearance by Sophia, Genevieve, and Kai explaining the ideation process they have been pursuing.

1 Million Cups Reno live stream One Million Cups is a weekly entrepreneurial program occurring in more than 70 cities across the nation, including Reno, Nevada. Each week we showcase two lo...

At this last club meeting, our YES club youth joined the UNR Entrepreneurship 200 course, listened two four teams present their semester projects. Vedant and Abigail, two of our YES club bets presented their businesses to the college students. A good learning time for all.

Yes club participation in the Reno maker fair. Abigail sold quite a few of her puppets. Vedant showed off his apps. Vanya sold some of her doorstops, and showed off her new venture into artwork! Great that Katie could join us also.

Yes club field trip to Dave Asher’s by Nevada first store. Terrific opportunity to learn about retailing. There may not be a better place in Reno to buy a unique gift for someone.

Our youth in our YES Club have the opportunity to work with Jordan Needham and his many design skills. Jordan designed this for my wife, for our 30 year wedding anniversary. Thank you Jordan. I look forward to helping you teach our YES Club youth how to do this kind of terrific work.

Thank you Vas for a great YES Club meeting on webpage design. Vas provided some step by step thinking on how the design of your web page can help your insure you webpage accomplishes its primary goal, like sell your product.

Thank you Jay Thiessans for hosting the YES Club, demonstrating how you build the Grappler and offering so many tips on how to make a manufacturing business work. Welcome John Snellgrove to your first Yes Club meeting.

Product improvement is an ongoing pursuit. After consulting with Jordan Needham, Abigail and Katie are experimenting here with different natural food coloring mediums for coloring the marionette sticks that Abigail uses in producing her puppets.

Thank you Jordan Needham for another great YES Club meeting, and welcome David, Katie, and Ketan. Jordan illustrated how Illustrator can be used to transform a 2D logo picture file into a scalable vector graphic file that can then be laser cut. If you know a young person who could benefit from or enjoy learning things like this, please share this with them. Tuesdays 6pm. A good time.

In addition to the YES club, which meets Tuesday evenings, the Youth Entrepreneur Syndicate also provides an entrepreneurship class at Excel Christian school. Here Are pictures of the trip to Dairy Queen which the young people in class earned, graciously provided by Danell Wilson-Perlman and Reno Tahoe Limousine. If you know any homeschoolers in Northern Nevada, Excel has possible for them to join this class and develop their entrepreneurial capabilities. College credit can be earned by juniors and seniors.

This last Youth Entrepreneur Syndicate Club (YES Club) meeting was held at the Pruitt Home and workshop, where Abigail Pruitt makes her puppets. Jay Thiessans, who built a significant metal fabrication business, was a guest, and Jay provided significant insights to Abigail and our other young people about how to manage a manufacturing process. Abigail’s parents, Janice and Dallas, provided a wonderful dinner for all of us, and we were fortunate to be able to celebrate Abigail’s 13th Birthday!

This week at you YES Club meeting, Jordan Needham introduced our young entrepreneurs to digital tools you can use to take a simple logo and turn it into a "scene" like the one shown in this picture. Specifically, for you techies, our youth learned you can use "Illustrator" or a similar tool to convert a jpeg picture file into an .svg file (scalable vector graphic). You can then "extrude" the svg image into 3 dimensions in "tinkercad" and save the result as an stL file. You can then use "blender" to create a "scene" like that showin in the picture here, which is saved as a jpeg. Blender includes physics software that automatically casts effective shadows depending upon where you the designer put a light in the scene using the blender software. If you know a young person who might have interest in developing these kinds of skills, tell them to check out our YES Club.

Our Yes Club meeting this coming Tuesday will focus on how custom software might be developed to give a business a competitive advantage.

The Yes Club seeks to develop the entrepreneurial capacities and character of youth, so please come join us at the UNR Innevation Center (450 Sinclair St, Reno) from 6:00-7:30PM (Tuesday Oct 10) if this is of interest. There is currently no fee, so come check it out.

One guest is Vasily Kamyshanov, who owns and manages vdigitalsolutions.

We will also have two UNR students as guests: Tristen Houston and Troy Keeney.

Tristen and Troy will present their business idea for a property management business, and they will present their ideas for a software app that will allow them to better serve landlords and tenants. Vasily, our young entrepreneurs, and the adults present can ask questions of Tristen and Troy, in a Sharktank like format. We all will learn from Vasily's experience as he uses the business idea of Tristen and Troy to discuss how he thinks about software development within the context of supporting a business.

Should be an awesome time. You should join us.

Very Proud of you YES (young) Entrepreneurs.

9-30 Bosma sits down with UNR's professor, Mark Pingle and his young entrepreneurs. - Serving Northern Nevada's Business Community Mark Pingle is a professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Reno. Professor Pingle has scores of publications in macroeconomics, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. He has served as Chair of the UNR Department

If you listen to the Bosma on business radio show this Saturday at 10 AM, on KKOH 780 AM, you can hear about the cool things some of our youth in the Youth Entrepreneur Syndicate (YES) are doing. Vedant, Abigail, and Vanya were terrific, as were their parents Priyanka and Janice.

A great YES club meeting, learning about 3-D printing at the Innevation Center. Thank you Crystal and Taylor!

A good evening to check out the YesClub Reno (a weekly club meeting for youth age 12-18 seeking to develop their entrepreneurial capacities) is Sept 26 (6PM at UNR Innevation Center). Youth attending will get a first exposure to 3D printing, presented by the Innevation Center staff. Email Mark Pingle [email protected] for more information.

The first YES Club has been created and it meets weekly at the UNR Innevation Center 450 Sinclair St in Reno on Tuesdays 6:00-7:30PM. This weekly club is a place where youth age 12-18 can develop their entrepreneurial capacities and character. For now, there is no fee. Come check it out!