Bring Your Son or Daughter to the Summit: Teenpreneur Authors to Speak
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Do you have a daughter or son who's interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, or improving the world?
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If so, here's how you can help them: Treat them to a day of inspiring speakers on everything from healthcare to sustainability at the Summit!
Sixteen-year-olds Fenley Scurlock and Jason Liaw are high school students and the authors of Down to Business: 51 Industry Leaders Share Practical Advice on How to Become a Young Entrepreneur, published by Penguin Random House in March 2024.
The premise is to help kids in Gen Z build critical business, leadership, and life skills, as well as an entrepreneurial mindset. More than 50% of Gen Z youth say they want to be their own bosses, yet the skills are not taught in most middle and high schools, and their book aims to fill that critical gap. It offers advice from global leaders across a range of industries - from space and sports to robots and ice cream and features interviews with venture capitalists, social entrepreneurs and brands such as Cotopaxi, Ikea, Hallmark Media, Hydro Flask and more.
As a book by teens for kids of all ages - the first business book of its kind - Fenley and his Jason ask questions that are relevant to their generation:
- Is college worth it if you want to be an entrepreneur?
- How can business be used for good?
- Should CEOs speak out about social issues?
They also offer key takeaways and actionable advice that kids can practice no matter their age or stage in their entrepreneurial journey.
Fenley Scurlock is a rising junior at Stanford Online High School (OHS), based at Stanford University. He is a teenpreneur, having launched a business selling artisan soaps at age seven, and the co-author of Down to Business: 51 Industry Leaders Share Practical Advice on How to Become a Young Entrepreneur, published by Random House in March 2024. Fenley has honed his creative writing at Stanford Summer Institutes, Yale Young Writers Workshop, Ellipsis Writing, and Writopia Labs, among others, and his work has been honored with a Gold Key award by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. He has also been honored with the Congressional Award, the U.S. Congress’s highest award for youth and the President's Volunteer Service Gold Award.
Jason Liaw is a Science, Math, Computer Science (SMCS) magnet student and three-time class president at Poolesville High School in Maryland. He is the co-author of Down to Business: 51 Industry Leaders Share Practical Advice on How to Become a Young Entrepreneur, published by Random House in March 2024. Jason launched his first business at age eleven, building and maintaining websites for a local chamber of commerce. He is the president of his school’s DECA club and won first place for a financial literacy project in a 2022 DECA state competition. Jason is one of two countywide administrators on the Special Elections Committee (SEC), which moderates and promotes the annual Student Member of the Board (SMOB) and Montgomery County Regional Student Government Association (MCR) elections, ensuring an equitable process for more than 80,000 eligible secondary school voters.
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Click HERE to register at Advance Rates (through June 14)!
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SPECIAL LOW RATES: Each parent who brings a child qualifies for the Strategic Partner rate for yourself, and the Student Rate for each full-time student. These per person rates are 150/person savings compared to public rates!
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