The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership believes that the best and the brightest budding entrepreneurs should be encouraged to follow those instincts. The EntrePrep program taps that youthful spirit and gives it structure, focus and basic skills. EntrePrep is a program for talented, motivated high school juniors. It's designed to provide them the fundamental concepts and skills to become entrepreneurs and start up a business. EntrePrep lays a solid foundation in entrepreneurship on which students can build their future.
Students receive guidance from entrepreneurs, which is typical of most mentoring programs.
The difference is that through EntrePrep orientation and a summer boot camp, students are taught skills and techniques identified by entrepreneurs as key to starting a business. Thus they are able to be helpful to the entrepreneur right from the start of the internship. Booster workshops throughout the internship experience help students refine those skills and provide new learnings that they can use immediately in their mentor company. The result is a program which provides a unique learning experience for the student as well as critical business support for the entrepreneur-mentor. Students who are selected for the EntrePrep program will find out about the world of entrepreneurship through both academic and practical experience.