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Bolt Enterprises

June 29, 2012 By admin

Young Entrepreneurs Business Opportunities through Learning and Technology (BOLT) Enterprises, a student-run business, provides a unique educational opportunity for young entrepreneurs attending Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School in Westbrook, Minnesota. BOLT Enterprises gives students the experience of running a real business, provides jobs, and manufactures a dynamite barbecue sauce, all on the high school campus. Students […]

Filed Under: Business - small (<20 employees), Children, Families and Learning, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Direct to customer/user, Food related, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Packaging, Processing, Program - non-profit, Responsible Purchasing, Support Students, Value added, Youth, Youth, Youth Businesses, Youth Leadership, Youth Workers

Bert Raney Elementary 3rd Grade

June 29, 2012 By admin

Hands-on Learning Third graders in Pam Betheldson’s class do not learn about science and nature simply from books. They go on frog hunts at nature centers to learn about their ecosystem hands-on. The frog hunt is one of the many activities used to teach the Yellow Medicine East students all about the frogs of Minnesota. […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Biodiversity, Children, Families and Learning, Collaboration, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Cultural Preservation, Enviromental Learning, Environmental Consciousness, Environmental Education Programs, Innovative Teaching, Minnesota, Program - university, Public Schools, Schooling, Storytelling, Wildlife Management, Youth, Youth

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