| BizTech 2.0 is an entrepreneur education program | | | | mode for the class or student from: Full |
| offering business assistance to students over 13. | | | | Curriculum Mode or BizPlan Only Mode. Both |
| The program teaches business, information | | | | modes result in teaching kids how to write a |
| technology and life skills to young people via the | | | | business plan in a complex, well drawn manner. |
| Internet. It reinforces math learning, reading and | | | | |
| critical thinking skills. | | | | |
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| | | | What is really helpful and confers the program |
| | | | maximum productivity is the fact that it is |
| The program was launched by The National | | | | designed in such a pleasurable manner that |
| Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, an | | | | students learn valuable, complex business and |
| organization located in New York City that was | | | | entrepreneurship information and enjoy it, as it is |
| set up from the need for a program for | | | | known that kids learn most by playing and that's |
| preventing failure and dropout of disadvantaged | | | | exactly what they do when working with BizTech |
| students from low-income communities. It does | | | | 2.0. |
| this by helping them develop entrepreneurial skills | | | | |
| and eventually enhance their economic | | | | |
| productivity and improve the quality of their lives | | | | |
| and their academic and business skills. | | | | The program partially answers the social problems |
| | | | of potential problem-children from low-income |
| | | | urban backgrounds who are usually prone to |
| | | | quitting school and finding ways that are not |
| BizTech 2.0 is flexible, user friendly, utilizing the | | | | always "righteous" to make money. But not only |
| latest technology. It is built of 25 units divided into | | | | this category of kids can benefit from such a |
| three levels: basic, intermediate and advanced. It | | | | program, as it was proven by a study that NFTE |
| allows on-line learning of how to develop your | | | | graduates possess 20 times more knowledge on |
| own business connecting students and teachers. | | | | basic business concepts and are 30 times more |
| | | | likely to start up their own business. |
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| Students have the advantage of the interactive | | | | |
| graphics that reflect the progress through each | | | | Laura Ciocan writes for where you can find more |
| level. | | | | information about what is a business plan |
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| The program is teacher-led and teachers are | | | | article, please include the resource box and send a |
| permitted to choose the most appropriate work | | | | brief message to let me know where it appeared. |