The Hebron Academy Entrepreneurship Program focuses on entrepreneurial learning, teaching and practice. Students learn valuable entrepreneurial skills by interacting with successful entrepreneurs, launching for-profit and non-profit ventures, and participating in business competitions. This unique co-curricular offering teaches students the basics of business leadership, management and planning.

In the fall visiting alumni & friends return to campus for keynote presentations by creative, successful and driven professionals, who inspire students to consider ideas and entrepreneurial ventures.

The Entrepreneurial Challenge competition provides students with the opportunity to develop successful business ventures from January to the end of April. The competition is limited to 18-24 students with preference given to Juniors and Seniors. Teams of 3-4 students receive start-up money to develop an idea, determine a strategy, create a business and generate revenue. Teams have the opportunity to consult with business mentors via email or phone.

Members of the internal and external Hebron community play crucial roles through connections established by the Entrepreneurship Program. Adult participation generally involves being a mentor, speaker or judge. Please email Robert MacLellan if you are interested in shaping the future of promising Hebron entrepreneurs. The program strives to ensure that any interested professional will have the opportunity to participate actively with our program and students.



Hebron to host EntrePrep Summer Institute

Hebron Academy will once again host a week-long, residential summer program designed to develop entrepreneurial skills in high school students who have completed their sophomore or junior year and who demonstrate creativity, academic effort, and the drive to excel in entrepreneurship. EntrePrep Summer Institute 2008, will be accepting applications for 24 places in what planners hope will become the model for similar programs across the country.

Developed by the National Council on Economic Education and funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the program will also include a strong local component. Hebron Academy has a successful entrepreneurship program, which features a lecture series by alumni and parents who have gone on to become successful entrepreneurs, and the school has a long tradition of college preparatory education. The summer program will focus on a broad definition of entrepreneurship: the transformation of an idea into an enterprise that creates value.

EntrePrep students will live in supervised residence halls on the Hebron campus, and have access to the school’s dining hall, classrooms, library, computer center and fitness center. In addition, plans are under way to partner with the Kieve/Wavus camps on Damariscotta Lake for leadership training.

The classroom portion of the program will run from July 13 to 19, 2008, and present a curriculum including topics such as Opportunity Recognition, Market Research, Sales and Marketing, Accounting and Finance, Negotiation Skills, Legal Issues of Small Businesses, Business Plan Development, and Teamwork and Leadership Training. Classes will include presentations, case studies, and hands-on activities.

After attending the classroom portion of the Summer Institute, participants will engage in a team project by setting up a ‘Business-for-a-Day’. Actually opening and running a Business-for-a-Day will open participants’ minds to the reality of what it takes to be in business, think as an entrepreneur and work in a team environment to accomplish goals set out by the group. The key to success will be their choice of business, coming from analysis of the market and effective brainstorming with their partners to determine an idea that will innovatively satisfy a need in the marketplace.

The conclusion of the Summer Institute will bring the participants back together to make a formal presentation on their ‘Business-for-a Day’ so they can articulate what they learned from conceptual classroom teaching in the context of running a real business for a day.

Click for 2008 EntrePrep application .

The NCEE is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving economic and financial literacy. Both directly and through its unique nationwide network of state Councils and more than 200 university-based Centers for Economic Education, NCEE’s programs reach more than 150,000 K-12 teachers and over 15 million students in more than 70,000 schools each year.