PROGRAMMING AREAS
Balanced Use of Natural Resources
The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu
Youth Entrepreneurship
Resources
Entrepreneurship Across Kentucky, Tom Lyons. The Appalachian Kentucky region has been the focus of federal attention for over thirty years. A number of significant programs operate to create an entrepreneurial region in eastern Kentucky.
To view abstracts from past NACDEP Conference presentations that relate to Youth Entrepreneurship please see: http://nacdep.net/confs/confs.htm .
An impressive group of youth programming projects can be found on the University of Connecticut's Extension site
at: http://www.extension.uconn.edu/
ESI: EntrepreneurShip Investigation is truly a pioneer in the field of youth entrepreneurship education. More information is available at: http://4h.unl.edu/esi/whatisit.html
"Get the Buzz on Biz!" The 2nd edition of NxLevel's youth entrepreneur curriculum. Information is available at: http://www.nxlevel.org/image/123800_c_sU128881_s_i190650/y_flyer.pdf
The University of MaIne Cooperative Extension's Small & Home Based Business Virtual Resource Library can be accessed at: http://www.umext.maine.edu/hbbsite/html/home.htm
Information on the Mini-Society, an experience-based instructional system targeted primarily for teaching entrepreneurship, economics, and citizenship concepts to students ages 8 to 12 is available at:
http://www.mini-society.com/secure/About-MS.asp
Information on NC REAL can be found at: http://www.ncreal.org/
Youth Entrepreneurship projects funded by CSREES: http://www.nercrd.psu.edu/Entrepreneurship/CSREES.Funded.Projects.pdf
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