BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Lehigh University’s College of Business and the Iacocca Institute are partnering on providing financial help to enable some area teens to take part in a summer entrepreneurial program.
- The Iacocca Global Entrepreneurship Intensive is a summer program for students ages 15-17 from around the world
- Financial aid will help local students opting for new 2023 business track
- Early decision application deadline is February 19th
The Iacocca Global Entrepreneurship Intensive is a workshop hosted by Lehigh University and the university’s Iacocca Institute. The four-week program offers several different focus areas for students. Iacocca Institute Director Kira Mendez said students can choose one of three tracks — business, population health or sustainability.
“Students will select an interest area and they get a combination of programming in their deep-dive area in the track, plus the entrepreneurship training,” she said.
The College of Business will offer financial help to eight-to-10 Lehigh Valley students who opt into the new business track launching in summer 2023. The workshop is geared toward 15-to-17-year-olds.
“We especially want to reduce the barriers for historically underrepresented students to pursue careers as entrepreneurs and business leaders."Georgette Chapman Phillips, the Kevin L. and Lisa A. Clayton Dean of the College of Business
“We especially want to reduce the barriers for historically underrepresented students to pursue careers as entrepreneurs and business leaders,” said Georgette Chapman Phillips, the Kevin L. and Lisa A. Clayton Dean of the College of Business.
Mendez said the intensive allows people from diverse backgrounds to interact. As many as 60 program participants will live and work together on the university’s campus
“The high school program is about half U.S. and half international,” she said. “So we get about 14 or 15 countries represented.”
The early decision application deadline is February 19th.
