Students Compete for Scholarships during National Lemonade Day
April 23, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jeff Crandall 860-282-4201
East Hartford: On June 6, 2010, students in East Hartford will be running lemonade stands in a competition for college scholarships. Students will be doing everything from designing the stand to setting the price. The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT) and East Hartford ChildPlan are working together to bring Lemonade Day to East Hartford, Connecticut.
With Goodwin College as title sponsor, East Hartford is joining the ranks of dozens of other communities across the country to make a difference in the lives of tens of thousands of young entrepreneurs. In addition to the profits owners could earn, Maffe Financial Group has generously sponsored scholarships to be deposited into a 529 plan in the name of the winners of the Best Tasting Lemonade, Best Looking Stand, and Best Business.
Lemonade Day was started four years ago in Houston, Texas, by Prepared4Life with the goal of offering a fun and engaging educational program to promote the ideas of entrepreneurship, business ownership, and community giving. Children learn the basics of starting and running a business, including setting goals, planning, finding investors, site selection, advertising, purchasing, product development, accounting, banking, and charity. There are many successful entrepreneurs that learned these basics and started their careers with lemonade stands as children. This program is open to children living or going to school in East Hartford.
"Entrepreneurship is an integral component of any economic development strategy," said Elliot Ginsberg, CCAT President and CEO. "At CCAT, we support programs that encourage new business creation and are thrilled to bring this exciting program to the Northeast for the first time."
To register for Lemonade Day, please go to LemonadeDay.org and click on East Hartford, or call Jeff Crandall at 860-282-4201 for more information.
ABOUT CCAT
The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT) helps private and public entities to apply innovative tools and practices to increase efficiencies, improve workforce development and boost competitiveness. CCAT functions as a unique economic development organization that combines expertise in cutting-edge technology with specialized centers of excellence in manufacturing, education, training, energy, and entrepreneurialism. Throughout these efforts, we promote partnership between industry, academia, and government to create a new collaborative framework for addressing 21st-century economic challenges.
ABOUT EAST HARTFORD CHILDPLAN
East Hartford ChildPlan, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that serves as a resource to the East Hartford community in providing a local voice in program planning and as a fiduciary for programs that impact the health, educational status and social conditions of East Hartford children and families. The mission of ChildPlan, as affirmed, is to proactively and effectively collaborate with the East Hartford community to improve the quality of the lives of our children and families.
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