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Housings young entrepreneurs program helps kids plan for future

Students learn business skills in course

Jananne Waller gets her students in the Young Entrepreneurs Succeed program ready for their project during a recent meeting at Green Hunter Homes. The program is for at-risk youths from local public housing and gearing them toward developing business ideas and presenting them in a 'Shark Tank' setting at the semester end. Students create business plans, business cards, prototypes, meet local innovators, hear motivational speakers and more.

1203yes5 — Jananne Waller gets her students in the Young Entrepreneurs Succeed program ready for their project during a recent meeting at Green Hunter Homes. The program is for at-risk youths from local public housing and gearing them toward developing business ideas and presenting them in a 'Shark Tank' setting at the semester end. Students create business plans, business cards, prototypes, meet local innovators, hear motivational speakers and more.

It’s 6 p.m. and eight kids living in public housing are sitting around a table, listening to a teacher, taking notes. These kids might be discredited or underestimated by some. But they give up their Monday nights to learn how to become young entrepreneurs.