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Title: TEXASTEEN EXPLORING ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDS
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TEXAS-TEEN EXPLORING ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDS
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Overview
- Starr County
- The Family Approach
- Brazos County
- Community Approach
- Bexar County
- School Approach
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T-TEEM ProgramBexar County
- Cooperative Extension Program
- Prairie View AM University
- Texas Cooperative Extension
- Texas AM University
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Program Goal
- The T-TEEM Program serves as a prevention program
that prepares youths and their families to become
self-sufficient, productive citizens and business
owners. It servers as a pathway to a new door of
opportunity in career development.
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T-TEEM Program Bexar County
- What Has Been Done?
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T-TEEM Program Year
- The T-TEEM program year begins in September and
ends in May of each year.
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T-TEEM Schools
- Horace Mann Middle School
- Martin Luther King Middle School
- Life Institute Private School
- Edgar Allan Poe Middle School
- Sam Houston High School
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T-TEEM Students Enrolled
- Stemming from multi-cultural backgrounds, 275
students were registered and engaged in the
T-TEEM program begin September 2001 to May 2001.
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T-TEEM Teachers
- Five T-TEEM Teachers were involved in the T-TEEM
program this year.
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T-TEEM Teachers Training
- T-TEEM Teachers were trained in the areas of web
pages design, business mentoring skills, record
keeping, effective advertising, and how to use
the cash register.
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Business Skills Taught
- What is Entrepreneurship?
- How to choose a business
- How to write a business plan
- How to promote a business
- Record Keeping
- Business terms and etiquette
- Public Speaking
- Communication skills
- Social skills
- Leadership skills
- Organizational skills
- Managing Finance
- Computer Skills
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T-TEEM Teacher Site Visits
- T-TEEM site visits were conducted by the 4-H
Aide. 3 site visits where made, and 6 T-TEEM
Teacher meetings were conducted to effectively
monitor the program.
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T-TEEM School Stores
- Each school set up T-TEEM School Stores
- The school stores are set up in designated
locations, others were set up in concession
stands, and others were mobile - The profit from the schools stores are generated
back into the school store to furnish more
supplies or products.
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T-TEEM Program Opportunities
- T-TEEM Trade Show
- YES
- Business Loans
- Business Mentoring
- 4-H Youth Clubs
- Summer 4-H Camp
- Youth Lab
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Youth Entrepreneurhip symposium
- Five outstanding T-TEEM youth went to the YES in
Atlanta. YES is a opportunity for entrepreneurs
to met youth business owners from around the U.S.
and to sharpen their own business skills.
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YES T-TEEM Youth Participants
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T-TEEM Youth Trade how
- A total of 22 youth business were conducted at
the T-TEEM 4-H Youth Trade Show. Some of the
following youth businesses were displayed at the
trade show - Candy Man
- Perfect Pictures
- ULTRA DESIGNS
- T-EEN Shirts
- Kings Royal Sitters
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Trade Show Judging Competition
- The business groups were judged by a team of five
judges from educational a business
backgrounds.The youth business were judged on a
set criteria.
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T-TEEM Youth In KENS TV News
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Horace Mann Middle SchoolUltra Designs
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TRADE SHOW YOUTH VOLUNTEERS
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TRADE SHOW YOUTH EXHIBIT
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T-TEEM Awards Program
- Following the trade show an awards program was
provided to award the youth and teachers for
their participation in the program, and the top
three winners who place 1st, 2nd, and 3 rd in the
business judging competition.
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T-TEEM Networking/Supporting Agencies
- San Antonio Independent School District
- St. Philips College
- City Commissioner
- City Councilmen
- 4-H Youth Issues Advisory Board
- San Antonio Fighting Back Association
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Academic Skills Enhanced
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- Increased class participation
- Interest in school increased
- All based on teacher observation and skills
improved.
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T-TEEM Program Impact
- Since its inception, this program has addressed
the problem of family economic stability, and
provided teens from low income economic
backgrounds an alternative career for their
future. Through T-TEEM youth have learned to
become more responsible team workers, leaders,
negotiators, and business minded oriented
individuals, and enhanced their computer skills.
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Outcomes and Wrap-Up
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What were the main strengths of the school
setting?
- The kids were readily available
- Administrator and teacher support made it easier
to take the programs to the kids - The program could be expanded or coordinated with
other areas of learning
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What were the main strengths of the family
setting?
- Built on the strong culture of family
- Helped to blend that culture with the more
traditional culture - Helped the whole family to gain confidence
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What were the main strengths of the community
setting?
- Engaged the stakeholders
- Tied the students to the community
- Allowed for a broader appreciation of results
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What difference has the program made?
- T-TEEMS has changed -
- how the kids think about themselves
- how the kids think about and interact with their
families - how the kids perceive school and learning
- how the kids interact with the community (world)
around them
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Why have these changes occurred?
- The kids like thinking about running their own
business - It makes them feel special
- It focuses on their strengths
- It turns these strengths into assets
- It provides them with extra cash
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What didnt go as well as expected?
- The kids didnt like when the program reminded
them of school, such as - - When the lessons were lectures rather than
activities - When the activities were too abstract
- When they couldnt see how any of this pertained
to them
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What was the kids biggest surprises?
- The program gave them more confidence in
themselves and they werent as shy in other
classes or in talking with adults
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What to remember?
- These kids grow up seeing doors that are closed
to them, this program shows them a door that is
open - quote from a T-TEEMS parent
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