Youth entrepreneur academy teaches business lessons

More than 100 students attended the fourth annual Teen Entrepreneur Academy, hosted by Concordia University Irvine School of Business.

The weeklong program is for high school students interested in starting a business. They live on campus for a week and learn the basic principles of entrepreneurship. At the end of the week, top teams present their business plan via an eight-minute “sales pitch.”

Tony Hsu of Woodbridge High School was a member of the winning team, which designed a prescribed transdermal patch for coronary artery disease patients. The adhesive patch would offer patients an alternative to taking medications through syringe injections or pills. Beckman High School student Katherine Wong was also on the winning team.

Irvine schools sent 14 of the 104 teens that attended this year.

New this year was the Kid Entrepreneur Academy, a summer day camp designed for students in fifth through eighth grades.

Founder Stephen Christensen is dean of Concordia’s School of Business.
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