A new trend has started across Nova Scotia and it is growing bigger and more successful each year. Young people are coming up with solid business ideas and turning these ideas into an employment opportunity for themselves and their friends. Students are using the entrepreneurial skills they acquire in the various entrepreneurial units offered in classrooms across the province. The centre provides entrepreneurial opportunities to all youth across the province. Young entrepreneurs are going places and are operating prosperous businesses across the province.
Business ideas range from personalized rubber stamps to dressmaking to paint ball centres and more.
Some of these ideas are coming from people just 14 years of age. The centre's vision is one of a vibrant, dynamic, self-reliant, entrepreneurial culture, and the centre's mission is to nurture entrepreneurship in young people by undertaking, creating, coordinating, and acting as a catalyst in the areas of entrepreneurship education, research and program design, professional development, community entrepreneurship and community entrepreneurship. Young entrepreneurs are invited to attend the second annual Young Entrepreneurs Going Places Conference at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax, April 25-26, 1996. The two-day conference is an intense and entertaining program of events focusing on the basics of running a small business. Following the conference, the public is invited to attend the Going Places Trade Fair at Park Lane Mall, Halifax, Saturday, April 27.