Join us at the Young Entrepreneurs Campaign
As I mentioned in my previous post, Youth CITIES is actively supporting Ingrid Li’s campaign for youth entrepreneurship. Ingrid is an amazing Winchester High School student, and Founder of the...
View ArticleBackwards approach to entrepreneurship
In a recent campaign for youth entrepreneurship at the State House, I spoke briefly about what makes someone an entrepreneur. Lately, I’ve also been thinking a lot about how someone may discover that...
View ArticleIntroducing a New Blog Contributor
Youth CITIES has drawn some very positive attention lately. Last month, Youth CITIES was selected to participate in an open source philanthropy event sponsored by TUGG (Technology Underwriting the...
View ArticleThe Teacher Becomes the Student
You know how, in certain subjects, it’s really cool to have a teacher who’s also a practitioner? Well, even though I started Youth CITIES 4 years ago after having run the same company I founded over a...
View ArticleGreater Boston Meets TED
No, I don’t mean Mark Wahlberg’s talking teddy bear. (Though, we could make this a topic for a future blog post;-) This is a long awaited post for me. Two weeks ago, on November 17th & 18th, I...
View ArticleMusings of my Kickstarter Experience
There are probably a million things I’d do differently if I was to do a Kickstarter campaign again. I will focus on 5 over the next week or so, and then I will conclude with how this experience has...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship & Sustainability in the Christmas Tree Industry
Eliminate Waste – that is one of the key objectives associated with current sustainability thinking and teaching. Some organizations, like Terracycle, strive so far as to eliminate the idea of waste....
View ArticleTUGG Event On January 31st
Last September, Youth CITIES participated in an open-source philanthropy event sponsored by TUGG (Technology Underwriting the Greater Good). For the event, our Founder, Vicky, spent the evening...
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Nemo Knocks
Last weekend, winter storm Nemo dumped more than 2 feet of snow on most of New England. In some places, high winds led to drifts piling 5 feet or higher. We all saw the fresh white landscape. We all...
View ArticleMarch-to-May Bootcamp 2013 Finals
Congratulations to the Youth CITIES March-to-May Bootcamp Class of 2013!! The March-to-May Bootcamp is Youth CITIES’ flagship program and designed for middle school and high school students from...
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October Entrepreneur Spotlight
This spotlight will be on one of YC’s most notable alumni, Toni Aloko. Toni is a young entrepreneur that has taken his love for tennis and turned it into a business. Practicegigs.com is a platform...
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November Entrepreneur Spotlight
This month’s spotlight features Joshua Summers, a Boston entrepreneur that works in the ad-tech industry. Joshua was a Paypal executive in Boston before leaving at the end of 2012 to found Clypd,...
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December Entrepreneur Spotlight
For the month of December, we chose an extremely local entrepreneur, Tim Rowe. Tim is the founder of Venture Cafe and the CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center (home of the YC Mini-Hack series)....
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January Entrepreneurship Spotlight
This month, our spotlight is moving to one of the facilitators utilized by Youth CITIES. Chris Wolfel has been involved in our community for several years as a mentor in the YC March-to-May Bootcamp...
View ArticleTEDx Talk from Youth CITIES Alumnus, Toni Oloko
Toni Oloko is one of the most successful young people in New England, and was also the subject of the October Youth CITIES entrepreneur spotlight. He also just gave a TEDx speech at the TEDxYouth...
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February Entrepreneur Spotlight
This month’s spotlight is on one of the most integral and consistent members of the Youth CITIES community. Brendan Kohler is a mentor at the March to May bootcamp and our most frequent facilitator for...
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April Entrepreneur Spotlight
For the first time, the spotlight will shift to a different timezone. The chapter of Youth CITIES in St. Louis, MO has officially been launched and is hosting its own March to May bootcamp alongside...
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CITIES Voices – moving beyond the idea
We all have ideas. We’ve daydreamed, contemplated, complained, and wished upon a star…whether it’s for better technology, living conditions, access to education, ways to communicate…you can fill in...
View ArticleThe Story Begins – by Ethan Wong
It all started when my friends began an entrepreneurship program in Cambridge, this program encouraged them to think about problems that were negatively impacting our community and what we can do to...
View ArticleLife as a Teenage Entrepreneur – by Jennifer Kim
I was introduced to the STEM and business world in 6th grade, when I was just following my older brother and accidentally stepped into my middle school’s Technology and Engineering Club. Before then, I...
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