On Saturday, December 31, 2011, several students, teachers, and guests from Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School experienced a treat! Todd Welch and Rob Allen offered them helicopter rides over Allentown. We heard comments including awesome, wow, and relaxing. See photos below. Participants can download their photos from Flickr by going to http://www.flickr.com/photos/marklang/sets/72157628706025297.
July 2010 eVenture 2010 Prepares Tomorrow’s Innovators As we ponder the constant stream of bad economic news today, it is easy to wonder what happened to that pioneering spirit where this country used to find new and better ways when faced with onerous competition and challenges. On June 20-25, 24 high school students showed …
eVenture 2009 proved to be the most successful summer program yet for Charter Partners Institute. Eleven students came together for an exciting, fun, and intense week at the end of June. They took responsibility to collaboratively identify a problem or opportunity for which they could find a better way, and then develop the idea into …
Mark Lang works with students at eVenture 2008. Mark (left) talking with guests at Charter Farms. Mark has an interesting and varied background that has involved pioneering new activities in technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and education. While in high school, he designed and built a working digital computer from raw logic circuits that won trips to …
Ms. Carolyn Santangelo presented Mr. Fiore with the 2008 Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education by the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge. The Leavey Award honors educators for their innovative efforts to help young people better understand the function and benefits of America’s private enterprise system.
In June 2007 Charter Partners Institute launched its first annual summer entrepreneurial education program. Highlighting the experience known as “A Week in the Life of an Entrepreneur” was a real-world, hands-on opportunity for students to build a business and present the plan to a venture capital panel for review. Seventeen students, representing seven area high …