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Welcome to Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy! At MEA, we want to give your child an edge! It is our mission to help children become the best they can be academically and personally. We use business and entrepreneurship principles to develop children’s creativity and increase scholastic aptitude. Our programs build confidence and teach children to understand the world around them so they are equipped to be a contributing and productive citizen once they reach adulthood. At MEA, we create an environment where children can get the tools they need to thrive!

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The Entrepreneurship Answer to Youth Unemployment by Amy Rosen

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At their October meeting, assembled European trade leaders got a stern warning from Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. She told them, “Youth unemployment is a time bomb.” The same day, Pope Francis called youth unemployment one of “…the most serious of the...

Encouraging Future Innovation: Youth Entrepreneurship Education

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Entrepreneurs drive America's economy, accounting for the majority of our nation's new job creation and innovations. According to the U. S. Census Bureau's 2002 Survey of Business Owners, self-employed individuals who have no paid employees operate three-fourths of...

NASA Challenges High Schoolers to Make a Meal Fit for an Astronaut by Nina Zipkin

News

The astronauts on board the International Space Station have been successful in their first attempts at growing food of their own, but as cool as red lettuce grown in space is, it’s certainly not enough to make a delicious meal with. But an initiative from NASA's...

The Joy of Raising a Teen Entrepreneur by Jason Weisenthal

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First, here' a warning: I’m about to brag about my child but I promise it’s for a good reason. My 13-year-old son Zachary earned more this past weekend than most of today’s recent college graduates can hope to make in a week. He’s also his own boss. Zachary builds...

5 Things Teen Entrepreneurs Can Do to Ensure a Lifetime of Success by Peter Daisyme

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Business isn’t just for adults anymore. The exciting world of entrepreneurship has recently seen the likes of a 13-year-old clothing designer, a 16-year-old online gift boutique owner, and a 16-year-old jewelry designer, just to name a few. If you’re a teen with an...

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Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy and STEM Memphis we use technology to get our students ready to compete in entrepreneurship, Coding, web development, S.T.E.M Projects! The future starts with teaching our children how to develop it!

WHAT OUR STUDENTS LEARN

Greatness Starts with Training

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COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS

So, our youth today need communication skills, both in written form and verbally. Being able to give a speech or a presentation will greatly benefit them personally and professionally today. Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy address this by teaching our students communicational skills need for business as well as for everyday communicating with others.

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LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Developing the ability to analyze their own strengths and weaknesses, set personal and professional goals, and have the self-esteem, confidence, motivation, and abilities to carry them out. Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy provides the tools need for youth to manage time, work in a team setting, set goals, start conversations, facilitate meetings, and make effective presentations; all of which are positive life skills that they will carry into adulthood.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

While we’re teaching people to be better employees, we should also invest in teaching them the mindset, coupled with the skills, to be innovators and entrepreneurs. Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy focus is developing the ability to recognize opportunity and giving young people the tools to capitalize on those opportunities empowers them to take ownership of their future in ways which directly link education to real-world success.

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CODING

You have probably read articles about how important it is that today’s kids learn to code. Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy has taken on the task to teach a future generation coding a skill that is useful for the future of business and personal.

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S.T.E.M. PROJECTS

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics! S.T.E.M., and therefore, S.T.E.M. education is vital to our future. STEM is everywhere; it shapes our everyday experiences. Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy has added S.T.E.M. Projects to its curriculum, S.T.E.M. is their future, the technological age in which our children live, their best career options, and their key to wise decisions.

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CRITICAL THINKING

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy uses chess, evaluate the existing evidence and issues.