Rural students engage and succeed when they have opportunities to tackle real-world challenges in the classroom. Learn about entrepreneurship education, its impact on students, and how schools can create and strengthen entrepreneurship education programs. We also have resources that highlight success stories and opportunities available in your community.
Research
Options for Entrepreneurship
Local Opportunities in the Santa Fe Trail BOCES
Ogalala Commons:
Summer Entrepreneurship Camp
Internship and Apprenticeship Opportunities
Advanced Manufacturers Tours & Lego Robotics Kits
The Holler is an online social learning network designed for digital place- based multimedia implementation, being used in rural Kentucky educational settings, ready to be utilized across the country
Peak Readiness Events
Career Cab/Job Shadowing
STEM
Manufacturing Tours
Local Success Stories
Innovative Water Technologies in La Junta -- (this needs to be finalized)
Photos included in G drive Exposure folder
blurb: La Junta Intermediate 6th graders work alongside Innovative Water Technologies in a work-based learning project that helps provide aid to Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria.
Real-World Problems Solved by SFT BOCES Students
blurb: La Junta 7th and 8th graders work with SECPA to understand and solve a number of problems surrounding limited utilities access in their communities.
blurb: Las Animas High School students learn from and collaborate with SECPA staff to prepare electrical services provision for rural housing developments.
Collected by students during the exposure process and can be collected through various forms of media