Junior Achievement equipping teens with tools to be entrepreneurial

Junior Achievement USA partnered with the Brian Hamilton Foundation, the Mark Cuban Foundation, and Microsoft, to host ‘Why Entrepreneurship Now: A Virtual Event for America's Teens.’

With schools closed..many teens don't have leadership opportunities outside of the classroom.fox 55's jeremy masukevich shows us how a local group is reaching out to teen leaders.

Nat lena when there are challenging times that's when innovation probably is at its highest.junior achievement of northern indiana president lena yarian says teen leaders should focus not on what covid-19 has taken but what opportunities the pandemic has created.sot lena things that may have not been a business opportunity in the past now becomes a need.

Given encouragement they can fulfill some of those needs.

Junior achievement usa today hosting the virtual forum 'why entrepreneurship now'.ed grocholski with j-a usa says targeting teens with entrepreneurial potential is a priority during the pandemic.

Sot ed we did a survey of teens and found that the level of interest for starting a business is about the same as it was only three years ago 66% of teens said they would likely consider starting a business.j-a partners brian hamilton and mark cuban answered questions about starting a business from teen leaders across the country.grocholski says their main goal to show teens to plan now to be entrepreneurs later.nat ed it's really vital now to talk to kids about entrepreneurship.sot ed if i were to look at starting a business now what would that look like?

So there are a lot of opportunities even with the restrictions that we have.in northeast indiana yarian says entrepreneurs have played a monumental role in developing the region.she hopes the teens tuning in today will gain the confidence that allows them to be more successful entrepreneurs in the future.

Sot lena you look at the strength of our region and the number of entrepreneurs that have come from this region.

They are major employers and major innovators.

In a region like ours we are going to grow because of our local entrepreneurs.in fort wayne, jeremy masukevich, fox 55 news to access a recorded version of the 'why entrepreneurship now' virtual forum click on this story on our