High School Students Chosen For Shaker Heights Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program

Over 20 are high school students, including five from Shaker Heights High School, have been chosen to participate in the Shaker Heights LightHouse Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program (LEAP).

LightHouse, an organization modeled after the Shaker LaunchHouse business incubator, will mentor the students through the summer, teach them from the Launchhouse curriculum, and give them startup money to launch their own businesses.

“We hope the students will come away from the program not only learning a lot about entrepreneurship and becoming a more complete entrepreneur, but having a viable startup,” LightHouse co-founder Zach Schwartz said.

That means turning a profit, eventually — a feat that businesses run by experienced adults can struggle to do.

The students chosen are listed below.

For more information on the LEAP program and LightHouse, click here.

LEAP Class of 2013

Felix Benenson  University School

James Caffrey  Shaker Heights High School

Eric Goldberg  Solon High School

Philip Heyaditnaya  Hawken School

Chris Hill  Gaitway High School

Charles Hummel  Shaker Heights High School

Bharath Katragadda  Solon High School

Taylor Lovelace  Shaw High School

Kevin Lin  Shaker Heights High School

John Liu  University School

Charlie Newell  University School

Patrick Pastore  Shaker Heights High School

Anthony Rizkala  Solon High School

Jacob Roscoe  Solon High School

Andre Saunders  Solon High School

Rushil Shah  Solon High School

Owen Shome  University School

William Taber  University School

Shreyas Tallamraju  Solon High School

Kyle Whitlach  Shaker Heights High School

Matt Yopko  University School