Flex your "entrepreneurial" muscles, team up with students from other schools to solve real-world design challenges!

Are you ready to transform your life and our nation by tackling pressing problems in the community? Learn how entrepreneurs, innovators, and designers approach problems to develop new and exciting solutions. At Innovation Weekend @ The Iron Yard, rising 6th through 8th graders and 9th through 12th graders will learn and apply the fundamentals of design thinking, entrepreneurship, and innovation to address company- and student-driven challenges with a small team of peers.

Each day will be packed with hands-on activities to help you learn to think and act like an entrepreneur!

• Explore the entrepreneurial mindset and the key skills for developing innovative ideas.
• Apply the design thinking process to solve problems that matter to you.
• Engage with local businesses and entrepreneurs who will help coach and mentor your team.
• Pitch your team’s solutions to a panel of judges.

The dates are:
- Innovation Weekend for 6th-8th graders: October 24th-25th. Registration for Middle School HERE.
- Innovation Weekend for 9th-12th graders: November 14th-15th Registration for High School HERE

See videos from past programs: Project Innovate, Innovation Weekend with Coca-Cola.

Contact discover@cfesummer.org with any questions.

More on Innovation in Action (IIA):

Innovation in Action is a design thinking, entrepreneurship, and innovation infused project-based learning program for middle school and high school students. Through innovative projects with local businesses and community organizations, our programs arm students with 21st century skills, foster empathy, connect students with leaders and mentors who open their eyes to future jobs and career paths and ignite a spirit of change-making and innovation.