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Seminole Students Learn How a Community Works With a MicroSociety

Seminole Students Learn How a Community Works With a MicroSociety

November 21st, 2023

Stenstrom Elementary School in Oveido, Florida, gave News 6 WKMG anchor Julie Broughton a tour of its “MicrOveido” MicroSociety. She visited businesses like the Stallion Supply Station, Addition Financial, Stallion News Network, and Stenstrom Harvest, all of which are managed by students in third to fifth grade.

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Microsocieties and Much More: Entrepreneurship Education Is Inspiring Kids Throughout SWPA

Microsocieties and Much More: Entrepreneurship Education Is Inspiring Kids Throughout SWPA

November 6th, 2023

Welcome to Soarmania, the “MicroSociety” that exists inside Penn Hills Charter School for Entrepreneurship. Since 2011, this K-through-8 school has partnered with the folks at MicroSociety, Inc., to use entrepreneurial education to teach kids about planning, launching and managing businesses — and teach citizenship, humanities and service along the way. Throughout the school day, science, math, social studies, and English language arts learning all incorporate entrepreneurial concepts in different ways.

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Penn Hills Charter to Share Its ‘Entrepreneurship Mindset’ With Other Schools

Penn Hills Charter to Share Its ‘Entrepreneurship Mindset’ With Other Schools

May 8th, 2023

Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh plans to share its expertise with other schools in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties that serve low-income areas where residents “are historically underrepresented in entrepreneurship,” says Wayne Jones, the school’s CEO, reports NEXTpittsburgh. In December, the Richard King Mellon Foundation awarded a $250,000 grant to MicroSociety Inc., the Philadelphia-based nonprofit that provides the educational model for grades K-6 at the school. The aim is to recruit up to three new Pittsburgh schools. 

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PRESS RELEASE: MicroSociety Receives Second $250,000 Grant from RK Mellon Foundation for Expansion Project in Pittsburgh

PRESS RELEASE: MicroSociety Receives Second $250,000 Grant from RK Mellon Foundation for Expansion Project in Pittsburgh

February 20th, 2023

MicroSociety Inc. and Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship are teaming up to take their innovative career readiness program to schools in the Pittsburgh region serving low-income students, thanks to a generous $250,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The grant supports an 18-month regional expansion effort to bring MicroSociety 2.0, an initiative that enables schools to take their MicroSocieties digital, to more schools in Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties that serve low-income communities and to further develop the MicroSociety 2.0 online platform. This project will lay the groundwork for and begin building a network of MicroSociety schools in the Greater Pittsburgh region with a unified mission to prepare students for the modern workplace.

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Miami Proud: Afterschool program ‘MicroSociety’ gives kids life skills in West Little River

Miami Proud: Afterschool program ‘MicroSociety’ gives kids life skills in West Little River

December 16th, 2022

"Dukeville," New Jerusalem Primitive Baptist Church's afterschool MicroSociety, was featured on CBS Miami's "Miami Proud" segment on Thursday, December 15. Watch the segment -- you don't want miss hearing from Dukeville's police chief! 

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