These Teens Mean Busine$$ International Academy (Virtual)
A 4-week summer business course for grades 9-12
Teens learn foundational business concepts, earn college credits, and make international friends in this youth entrepreneurship program. Over four weeks, teens virtually connect with high schoolers abroad, exploring business principles like management, finance, and marketing. The course concludes with intercultural groups working together to design and pitch presentations that highlight global issues and entrepreneurial ways to address them.
Over four weeks, students will connect virtually with high schoolers from Bright Start Africa-Sierra Leone and Armitage Boarding School in the Gambia in Africa exploring foundational business concepts like management and finance before designing and pitching business ideas to address global issues of importance to them: gun violence, racism, world hunger, and poverty. Last year, these business ideas included a music concert that would donate profits to organizations addressing gun violence, cultural parties that would spread cross-cultural awareness and acceptance, writer workshops that would help fund charities combating world hunger, and classes that would remove barriers to financial literacy.
Have fun while developing friendships with teens around the world!
Learn business concepts!
Earn 1 high school credit (if enrolled in MMSD or Sun Prairie)
Upcoming session
These Teens Mean Busine$$ International Academy
June 27 – July 20, 2023 (T/Th) 10 am-12 pm CST 3 pm – 5 pm GMT *Week 2 will be W/Th due to the July 4th holiday | $120 | Scholarships Available
Program scholarships available
We provide need-based scholarships, awarding amounts based on household income and special financial circumstances. Call 608-298-6949 for more information and to request a scholarship application.
Explore past courses
2021 Virtual Business Academy
Social Issue: Gun Violence, Racism, World Hunger, Poverty
During our second international virtual exchange, the team at Stepping Stone International — a nonprofit serving vulnerable youth in Botswana — selected nine of their teens to enroll in the Academy along with participating U.S. students. Over four weeks, students connected virtually, exploring foundational business concepts like management and finance before designing and pitching business ideas to address global issues of importance to them: gun violence, racism, world hunger, and poverty. These business ideas included a music concert that would donate profits to organizations addressing gun violence, cultural parties that would spread cross-cultural awareness and acceptance, writer workshops that would help fund charities combating world hunger, and classes that would remove barriers to financial literacy.
2020 Virtual Business Academy
Social Issue: Lack of Education, Healthcare Disparities, Global Warming
In 2020, we launched our first-ever international virtual exchange, fostering cross-cultural, entrepreneurial collaboration between CEOs of Tomorrow teens and students from the Middle East International School in Doha, Qatar. Together, students selected three global issues of importance to them — access to healthcare, lack of education, and global warming. They collaborated to conduct research, present their findings, and detail action steps they could take to address these issues. Action steps included creating a fundraising campaign for Doctors Without Borders, making door-to-door visits in remote or impoverished areas to provide educational resources, and creating and circulating online posters highlighting the effects of global warming.
Encourage young entrepreneurs
Give a tax-deductible full or partial scholarship to allow a deserving teen to participate in one of our These Teens Mean Busine$$ programs.
Bring our youth entrepreneurship programs to your school or organization
We can offer customized These Teens Mean Busine$$ programming to community organizations and schools looking to launch youth-run businesses within their facilities. Get in touch to learn more.