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At Camp BizSmart learn the secrets of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and successful entrepreneurs at Google, Cisco, Hara, and Better World Books. Attend the world’s only summer academy for “Tweenpreneurs” age 11 – 15. Learn how to invent cool new products & market your ideas. Have fun and build your “BizSmarts”. Learn about the amazing success story of Camp BizSmart faculty member & Inc Magazine “Entrepreneur of the Year”, Kevin Surace, CEO of Serious Materials. Kevin knows about getting things done, and last year sponsored a challenging Camp BizSmart team project.

Help lead your team, on-site at Stanford (July 6 – 17) and Santa Clara (August 2 – 13) Universities as the team prepares to win the business plan competition. Competition judges, themselves successful investors and inventors, will award one team the cool Camp BizSmart 1^st prize. Along the way, you will practice and learn business success skills like collaborative teamwork, leadership, brainstorming & innovative thinking, financial analysis & product design. 2010 sponsors include The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University and The Precourt Energy efficiency Center at Stanford.

Camp BizSmart advisor and Managing Partner at Garage Technology Ventures, Bill Reichert says: “Only an entrepreneurial approach – flexible, scrappy, collaborative, & unafraid of risk and failure will succeed in this new world. We owe it to our children to help them develop these skills & attitudes with programs like Camp BizSmart.” Bill should know, his venture firm has invested in such Silicon Valley success stories like Kaboodle and Pandora. Founders, Peggy Gibbs & Dr. Michael Gibbs like to say they designed Camp BizSmart to prepare:

“Versatile Students Ready For Global Competition.”

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