NEW YORK, March 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Outstanding young entrepreneurs and teachers from around the world
will be honored March 25 in
New York City at the Network for
Teaching Entrepreneurship's (NFTE) Global Showcase. Sara Blakely, one of the nation's best known and
most successful entrepreneurs, will speak with students at the
evening event.
"It is a great privilege to showcase these exceptional
entrepreneurship students and teachers," said Shawn Osborne, President and CEO of NFTE. "They
really are the future of global innovation, financial inclusion and
prosperity and we're delighted they could join us in New York and share their talents and
stories."
In total, the NFTE Global Showcase, presented by MasterCard,
will feature student and teacher delegations from 29 locations
around the world (list below) including India, China,
Mexico, Ireland, Israel and Colombia as well as more than a dozen U.S.
communities from San Francisco to
Miami. The Showcase will give the
students an opportunity to display and sell their business products
to attendees. Students invited to the Showcase will be recognized
as Global Young Entrepreneurs and the most outstanding teacher in
each participating region will receive the Global Enterprising
Educator Award.
The NFTE Global Showcase, Presented by MasterCard will take
place:
Wednesday, March 25,
2015 at 7:00pm
Gotham Hall – 1356
Broadway
New York
City
Before the event, students will participate in a Day of
Learning, also sponsored by MasterCard, in which students will
learn about branding and brand identity and participate in
activities with leaders from MasterCard, Twitter and Google. The
Day of Learning will take place:
Wednesday, March 25,
2015 between 8:00am and
1:00pm
Vanderbilt Room, Roosevelt Hotel - 45 E 45th Street
New York City
"Our work with NFTE is just one way we can help inspire and
support future generations of business leaders in taking their
first strides into the formal economy," said Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing Officer,
MasterCard, who will also speak at the Showcase. "At MasterCard, we
invest time, effort and resources to create programs and solutions
that fuel the spirit of entrepreneurship in an inclusive manner
across the globe."
At the evening Showcase, students will be able to pose questions
to Sara Blakely. Blakely founded
Spanx with her personal savings in 2000, was named the world's
youngest, self-made female billionaire by Forbes Magazine
and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People. Since
launching the Sara Blakely Foundation in late 2006, Sara and Spanx
have donated roughly $24 million to
The Spanx by Sara Blakely Foundation that supports education and
entrepreneurship among women.
Here are the student entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship teachers
being honored at the NFTE Global Showcase, listed alphabetically by
location:
United States:
Baltimore: Cyprian Ekeagwu will showcase: Green Tech – A
radio controlled educational hovercraft toy built from recyclable
materials
Educator: Karl Sanzenbacher, Roland
Park Elementary Middle
School
Boston/New England:
Carlos Perez will showcase: Perez
Technology Group – A cloud-based IT consulting company
Educator: Jill McNamara,
Lowell High School
Chicago: Terrence Thompson will showcase: Project Lens
Chicago – Employs high school students in the film-creation
process
Educator: Danny Gray, Thornwood High
School
Cleveland: Jailynn McGill will showcase: Bedda – A natural,
organic, handmade bath and body product for all skin types
Educator: Tamie Carlisle,
John F. Kennedy High School
Dallas/North Texas: Hannah
Edwards will showcase: The Green Tee – A 100% biodegradable
golf tee made of fertilizer
Educator: Stephen Thomas,
Greiner Middle School
DC Region: Abigail Hamilton will
showcase: Patriot Portraits – Photographs military families at
monthly photography events
Educator: Egheosa Igbinoba, Calvin Coolidge Senior High School
Fresno: Kelsey Hershey will showcase: Poppy's Jam – An
organic all natural strawberry jam made with fresh ingredients from
local central valley farmers
Educator: Linda Jean Voth,
Roosevelt High School
Georgia: Diana Morales will showcase: Natural Glow
(Brillo Natural) – Organic beauty products
Educator: Michael Green, Cross Keys
High School
Kansas: Abisai Reyes will showcase: CleanCo – Offers
office cleaning/janitorial services
Educator: Brandon Reith, Wichita
High School East
Los Angeles: Uriel Miramontes will showcase: Uriel's
Photography – A photography business
Educator: Timothy Dura, Hawthorne
Math and Science Academy
Miami/South Florida: Everette Slocum will showcase: Little Brown Box
Works – Mobile applications
Educator: Michael Brennan,
Nova Middle School
NYC Metro: Adeleny Minaya will showcase: adelenyPOPS – High
quality natural and unique flavors for cake pops
Educator: Clarence Tennell, Business
of Sports School
New York, Westchester/CT (Fairchester): Ambar Romero will showcase: Styles by Ambar –
Fashionably recycles women's clothing with a philanthropic focus on
organizations that support and help women
Educator: Steven Mulqueen,
Lincoln High School
Philadelphia: Patrick Bampfield will showcase: Vocab Commander
– App that provides SAT and ACT vocabulary practice
Educator: Angie Cooper-Parham,
Lincoln High School
Pittsburgh: Ivonna Moore will showcase: Affection Connection
Blankets – Children's blankets
Educator: Kurt Mahan, Brownsville
Area High School
San Francisco Bay Area:
Timothy Perez will showcase: TP
Designs – Professional website design for educators, non-profits
and small businesses
Educator: Tara Coburn, Oak Grove
High School
St. Louis: Jordan Harden will showcase: Neostring – A
shoestring that eliminates the need to retie shoes
Educator: Raghib Muhammad,
McCluer South-Berkeley High
School
South Carolina/YEScarolina:
George Dowis will showcase: Wimbees
– Small, beaded, insect-like art pieces
Educator: Jennifer Molnar, Fort Mill
High
School
International:
Australia: Dakota Baker and Jay
McLean will showcase: Baldja Moort – An aboriginal
traditional dance group
Belgium: Mathias Mornie and
Filiep Reynaert will showcase: Fisherman's Paradise – A specialty
store catering to fishermen/women
Educator: Sibylle Humblet,
YouthStart
China: Yulian Wang will showcase: Tofu Family –
Providing colorful, nutritious, different flavor of tofu
China: Lulu Zhang will showcase: Maya Digital
Technology Co., Ltd. – Mobile phone game; HTML 5
China: Tao Zhang will showcase:
China Shanghai Protective Equipment Co. Ltd. – protective
equipment
Educator: Lizhen Yu, Urban and rural
construction school
Colombia: Isabella Agudelo Marin and Yeny Pinzon Mora will showcase: Productos
Orgánicos – Fertilizer produced from banana debris leachate
Educator: Nohora Helena Jaramillo,
Institución Educativa BOLIVARIANO
Germany: Ashley Twumasi will showcase: FromNorthToWest
(FNTW) – Sportswear, dancing trousers
Educator: Dr.Jochen Blaha,
Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Niddatal
India: Educator: Anantha
Kumar Jambur, Bangalore
University
Ireland: Clara Hewston will showcase: Look 2 Cook – A
variety of cookery books to help all children to learn to bake
using only pictures, no words
Educator: Ailbe Coleman,
Ballincollig Garda Youth Diversion Project
Israel: Avi Aharon, Maor
Aharon, Nisim Fahima and Avi
Hezkayev will showcase: Find It - a radio wave sticker for finding
everyday objects
Educator: Marwa Maklada, Art Technology Daliat el Karmel
Mexico: Daniel Navarro Pérez
will showcase: Heaven's Riders – Games for mobile devices
Educator: Diana Franco Pérez, University La Salle
Singapore: Jiang Hoe "Xavier"
Tan will showcase: Café on Wheels – A mobile café that moves around
Singapore housed on a double
decker bus
Educator: Mohammad Shahril Bin Jumat, Evergreen Secondary
School
United Kingdom: Anastasia
Enyioma, Hannah Ali, Abishna
Vamadevan and Jada Walters will
showcase: AJJA Ltd. - App which encourages healthy cooking and
reduces food waste
Educator: Tracey Scarsbrook, Norbury
Manor Business and Entreprise
College
Editor's Notes: Photos of the students and teachers are
available. The morning Day of Learning event will be more TV and
photograph friendly.
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The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Since 1987, the
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) has taught and
inspired more than 500,000 young people to pursue educational
opportunities, start their own businesses, and succeed in life. By
providing entrepreneurship education programs relevant to the real
world, NFTE empowers students to own their education and future
success. NFTE has programs run through 17 U.S. program offices and
in 9 countries. To learn more visit www.nfte.com, like us on
Facebook at www.Facebook.com/NFTE and follow us on Twitter at
@NFTE
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