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KidzBiz Camp
This camp is a 5-day activity based, experiential day camp program for young people between the ages of eight to 14 years of age. It has been successfully delivered to enthusiastic youth, teens and adults in North America, South America, Africa, and Europe KidzBiz Camp gives participants a fun filled, hands-on opportunity to explore and expand their creativity, develop problem-solving skills, and develop self-confidence, through the experience of visioning, planning, and implementing their very own entrepreneurial venture – a business for a day.
KidzBiz Camp is designed to build positive entrepreneurial attitudes, skills and knowledge through a learn-by-doing approach. The camp offers an innovative and fun schedule of activities that introduce young people to the opportunity to "create a job", through the development of their entrepreneurial potential. Games, teamwork, creativity and innovation challenges, and individual and group activities all contribute to a week where campers:
- Experience the world through the lens of an entrepreneur
- Experience the discovery of opportunities and the rewards of planning and goal setting
- Learn to take the initiative, to cooperate, and work with others
- Engage in self discovery and personal growth
Research has found that young people in elementary and middle school realize many benefits from exposure to entrepreneurship, including:
- Increased self confidence
- Enhanced creativity
- Higher academic achievement
- Increased self-confidence
- Increased self control and self empowerment
- Greater self sufficiency
- Broader awareness of entrepreneurship as a career option
- Better understanding of money and economics
- Improved problem solving skills
The KidzBiz innovative 5-day program recognizes that young people:
- Are open and curious about the larger world
- Use play as a way to explore, experiment, and create
- Depend on peers to feel a sense of belonging, learn, and engage in the world
- Seek role models to inspire them with all the possibilities of developing into their best selves
- Need to explore their capacity for increased independence within a structure of support and safety as they move into adolescence
- Thrive through accomplishment and recognition of their efforts