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More Than a Lemonade Stand

Help the leaders of tomorrow get their start with this step-by-step guide to creating your own youth entrepreneur camp.

Entrepreneurial skills are more in demand today than ever before. Often, the most successful entrepreneurs started honing their skills at a young age. Whether it was a lemonade stand or a newspaper route, they were learning fundamentals of business early in life. So what if we could guide more kids through these valuable lessons and put them on the path to success?

More Than a Lemonade Stand provides the resources and tools you need to run a youth entrepreneur camp—from guidance in building your curriculum to educational activities you can incorporate into your program. With this easy-to-follow guide, you will learn how to lead young men and women through the exciting process of brainstorming, conceptualizing, and building a business from scratch.

Julie Ann Wood

Julie Wood has a B.S. in elementary education and M.S. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison along with an associate degree in Accounting & Data Processing from Madison Business College. Along with starting her own accounting consulting company “Check + Balances” at the age of 27, she has trained and consulted with numerous businesses on their improving their processes and operations. In addition to developing products and writing books under the "More Than a Lemonade Stand" brand, she has worked for the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center for the past 10 years where she reinvented the youth entrepreneur camp for middle aged kids when funding for the camp was cut. In addition to directing the Youth Entrepreneur Camp, Julie shares her passion for youth entrepreneurship as a classroom volunteer for Junior Achievement and has been a frequent guest instructor of the business simulation for middle school and high school aged groups. She has also trained teachers nationally on how to use the business simulation in their classrooms. She is also a member of UW-Madison’s Pre-College council which works on pre-college programs and processes for the campus. Julie has been a state and national presenter for increasing engagement in the class room at the national ASBDC conference, UW-Extension technology conference, State of Wisconsin Office productivity conference and the State Training conference.

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