Moving Ideas to Market

Coming Events

Starting Your Own Business Date and Time: Fri, 09/17/2010 - 9:00am - 4:00pm At this forum you will learn about...

Spotlight! 2010 Date and Time: Thu, 09/23/2010 - 12:00am - Fri, 09/24/2010 - 12:00pm Team Project...

Extreme Change: Four Women, Four Sectors, Total Transformation Date and Time: Fri, 09/17/2010 - 11:30am - 1:30pm In 2010 and beyond, business as usual...

New Enterprise Forum: Due Diligence is Not for Sissies Date and Time: Thu, 09/16/2010 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm . So it's time for an equity...

Sales I: Effective Networking - Oakland Count Date and Time: Wed, 09/15/2010 - 9:00am - 12:00pm y. You're up and running, right? And...

IGNITE Competition Winner featured in the New York Times

On behalf of the entire IGNITE team, as well as the Moving Ideas to Market initiative partners are excited to see an IGNITE alum profiled in the New York Times. Alexandra Reau was the first place winner in last year's Ignite Youth Inventors Competition. She was able to parlay her $300 winnings into a large, successful community supported agriculture (CSA) business. Congratulations Alexandra!

For the complete article, please click here.

Recent Updates

September 2010 Moving Ideas to Market e-Newsletter

September 3, 2010

The Moving Ideas to Market September e-Newsletter is here!

Learn about exciting competitions, teacher stipends, student programs, and more!

View the newsletter online here! (Available until October 1.)

Momentum growing for 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Week

August 30, 2010

Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA is one of the largest and most active national campaigns for Global Entrepreneurship Week—a rapidly expanding initiative designed to inspire people to embrace innovation, imagination, and creativity. It is a movement around promoting an entrepreneurial culture where everyone is encouraged to unleash their ideas—to seek new and better ways of doing things. This year’s event will take place November 15-21.

Introduction to Business Plan Writing

August 17, 2010

Educator Name: Cindy Olson

School District: Tuscola ISD

Grade Level(s):

Pathway/Cluster (Check all that apply:)

_____Arts and Communications Pathway

_____Arts, A/V Technology & Communication Cluster

___X__Business, Management, Marketing and Technology Pathway

___x__Business, Management, & Administration Cluster

Design Squad Young Innovators Contest

July 29, 2010

THIS SUMMER, KIDS CAN RECYCLE THEIR WAY TO STARDOM…

'Walleye Kid' knows where the angling's best

July 22, 2010

Original Source: http://www.freep.com/article/20100722/SPORTS10/7220424/-Walleye-Kid-know...

Posted: July 22, 2010

BY ERIC SHARP
FREE PRESS OUTDOORS WRITER

From March through October, I get a lot of e-mails from people who want to know where to catch walleyes in the Detroit River and Lake Erie. From now on, I'll simply refer them to The Walleye Kid's Internet site.

IGNITE Competition Winner featured in the New York Times

July 16, 2010

For the complete article, please click here.

Michigan Student Sees His Path to Success in Serving Fellow Start-up Ventures

July 9, 2010

Bryan

By Holly Hetzner, Prima Civitas Foundation and Chris Stickney, MSU Extension

The Impact of US Entrepreneurs

July 6, 2010

Educator Name: Ben Pineda

School District: Haslett Public Schools

Grade Level(s): high school

Subject:

_____English Language Arts

_____Writing, Speaking and Expressing

_____Reading, Listening and Viewing

_____Literature and Culture

IGNITE Offering Teacher Stipends to Foster Sharing of Entrepreneurial Lessons

June 18, 2010

IGNITE Entrepreneurial Curricula Reviews

June, 2010

Teachers, are you interested in incorporating entrepreneurship principles into your classroom? Would you like to have an avenue to help your students understand the connection between what they are learning in your classroom and how it might empower them to start their own business in the future? Would you like to empower other educators to do the same?