Successful entrepreneurship camp with young people ends

The initiative is led by Endeavor Chile and Fundación Chile, and it aims to help high school and technical school students to develop self-management skills, competencies for identifying opportunities, value building talents, risk-taking skills, how to manage projects and attitudes for making them become reality.

After almost two weeks of competition, the entrepreneurship camp in Casablanca for school children from Puerto Montt came to an end. The initiative that began two years ago, is led by Endeavor Chile and Fundación Chile, who joined with the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and Latitud 90 for the 2011 version. This activity aims to help high school and technical school students to develop self-management skills, competencies for identifying opportunities, value building talents, risk-taking skills, how to manage projects and attitudes for making them become reality.

This year’s project winner was My Gourmet Land, from the Miramar Business School. Their venture was based on the preparation of sophisticated canned goods using regional products, mainly morchella mushrooms. The project’s lead students will represent all the students from the Puerto Montt entrepreneurship projects in the Annual Entrepreneurship Gala, that will be held this coming April in New York.

During the camp, the young people had the chance to share with national and international monitors, entrepreneurs and teachers, who guided them in the development of their projects.

Other participating projects were: Recycle for a Book from Andrés Bello Public School, which aimed to provide material to its library by recycling paper; Metal Thor from Alerce Industrial School, which created artistically designed metal railing; Don Alberio Canned Goods from Piedra Azul Rural School, with canned fruits and vegetables from southern Chile; Yalwilli from Puerto Montt Business School, which consisted in the preparation of native Mapuche food; and Flores del Sur from Miramar Business School, with cookies in original presentations for gift-giving.

The activity received support from Corfo’s Business Advisory Board, the Municipal Education Corporation and a group of volunteers.