Pennsylvania School for Global Entrepreneurship, Lehigh University

June 28 to August 1, 2009

Working in partnership, Lehigh's College of Education and the Iacocca Institute develop the applied curriculum and deliver the five-week residential academic program during the summer. The students are academically gifted 16- and 17-year old high school students from across Pennsylvania and around the world. Sixty-four students are from Pennsylvania and twelve are international students. Last year our international students represented Jordan, Spain, Kuwait, Ukraine, Mexico, Panama, Denmark, Israel, South Korea, Greece, Ghana, and Antigua-Barbuda.

The purpose of the Pennsylvania School for Global Entrepreneurship is to expose Pennsylvania high school and international high school students to the topic of global entrepreneurship, leadership and effective business practices and to ignite the students' spirit of creativity, innovation, and learning. The applied curriculum includes core and elective courses, entrepreneurial exchanges and excursions, team projects with business partners, and a variety of other interactive experiences and activities.

The students are housed on Lehigh University's campus, and enjoy food and recreation using facilities at Lehigh and in the Lehigh Valley. The courses are held in academic buildings at Lehigh, and taught by Lehigh faculty members as well as entrepreneurs and leaders of the business community. All students attend core courses, as well as have the option to select elective courses each week. Entrepreneurial exchanges with leaders from business, industry, government, education and the non-profit community are a part of each daily schedule, as are entrepreneurial excursions to local sites of interest. Students will participate in educational visits to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, United Nations, Philadelphia, and the Harrisburg Capitol. Last year, student teams worked on-site at local companies and non-profit agencies including Just Born Candy, PBS Channel 39, City of Bethlehem, ArtsLehigh, PPL, Northampton Museum and Genealogical Historical Society, JF Magic, Channel 69, Orbel, Current Concepts, The Morning Call, Rodale, FMI, FC Lehigh, and Martin Guitar.

For information on the Pennsylvania School for Global Entrepreneurship at Lehigh University, contact Trisha Alexy, Director, tsa2@lehigh.edu.

To see video clips of the former Pennsylvania Governor's School for Global Entrepreneurship, please visit www.pgse.org. Click on "Global Entrepreneurship" at the left side of the page, then click on "See Videos and Photos".