Entrepreneurship Bootcamp For Veterans Offers Technology Twist
2009 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (Photo by Mays School Photo Team)
COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 13, 2010 — Mays Business School at Texas A&M University is again joining a select group of business schools to offer the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV). This year, supporters will be able to get a sense of the action at the life-altering program, as three of the 20 Mays participants will be video-blogging the event.
The program, which runs for a week beginning Saturday (Aug.14) on the Texas A&M campus, provides education and training in entrepreneurship and small business management free of cost to military personnel injured in the line of duty since 9/11. The program is designed to help participants learn essential skills that will help them start, grow and successfully manage entrepreneurial ventures.
“We have the opportunity to change lives for men and women who have g
iven so much to us through their service to our country,” says Richard Lester, clinical associate professor and executive director of the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Mays, which hosts the bootcamp at Texas A&M. “ It is a great honor and privilege that all of us share who become associated with the EBV program.”
The EBV program was introduced by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University in 2007. Now the program is offered in consortium with Mays, UCLA, Florida State University, Purdue and the University of Connecticut.
The program consists of a three-week online self-study, a nine-day on-campus residency period, and a year of mentorship with a faculty member volunteer as participants launch their new ventures. The program provides participants not only with the practical skills necessary to make their new venture a success, but also a network of support that will be vital as they launch their ideas.
Corporate sponsors and private individuals provide funding so the entire program — including tuition, travel and accommodations — is offered at no cost to the veterans.
Contact: Kelli Levey, News & Information Services, at (979) 845-4645; or Richard Lester, the Mays EBV program director, at (979) 862-7091
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