Georgetown University Entrepreneurship Academy

The Entrepreneurship Academy at Georgetown University allows students to spend their day exploring a mix of field trips, activities, lectures, and more. This academy covers professional development and leadership, ethical business, diversity, risk management, and more.

Through the guidance of experienced business leaders and entrepreneurs, campers create a startup from start to finish and formulate a business plan that they end up pitching to the audience. Through their lessons, kids can build business, leadership, teamwork, networking, and communication skills.

Each student completes the Capstone Project to demonstrate critical thinking and explore solutions to complex problems. To be considered for the Entrepreneurship Academy, high school students must submit a 300-500 personal statement and provide the contact information for a guidance counselor or teacher who can speak to the student's academic performance with a minimum GPA of 2.0 is required.