Summer camp prepares youth to be entrepreneurs – Eagle Feather News

August 22, 2017

Indigenous youth end the summer with a camp that offers skills and an experience of what it’s like to be entrepreneur. The 9th Annual Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship Camp (AYEC) hosted by the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) School of Business and Public Administration started the summer program on August 12-18th.

Taylor Gardippi from Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation, will be entering in her last year of high school in the fall. The 17-year-old participated in her first AYEC and said she heard about the exciting experience from her cousin Brittany who attended the camp a few years ago.

“I enjoyed how there was so much business ideas that other people had brought to me,” she said. “I came here looking for my future…it really opened up a lot of doors for my future.”