Did you ever build a lemonade stand as a child? Most of us will answer yes or can think of a similar entrepreneurial activity we participated in as a child. The real question though is, how many of those entrepreneurial memories happened outside the bounds of school? This paper explores how, in a goal to create the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, the traditional focus is on creating structures to support the high school to college age students. However, it is equally important to lay some great foundations in the kindergarten through 8th grade levels, where one can find an environment ripe to learn, create, and try new ideas. This paper will discuss how Tech-E camp exposed K-8 kids to a range of challenges that are inherent in entrepreneurship and engineering through a strategy called learning blocks and how these seem to pair well with the push for deeper learning models. We will look at student and parent assessment of the process and look at future efforts to continue to develop these kids into tomorrow's engineering entrepreneurs. First year outcomes of the project will be shared along with how strategies applied at camp could easily be integrated into a K-8 curriculum lacking dedicated direction to develop essential entrepreneur mindsets.
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