WELLESLEY, Mass., May 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Entrepreneurship educators from around the world will join real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the 2009 Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators May 25-29, 2009 at Babson College.

The intensive five-day program explores the entrepreneurial process and core topics in the discipline. Sixty-four entrepreneurship educators from 12 countries – Canada, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the USA – will attend.

The goal of the program is to help all participants become more effective, innovative teachers of entrepreneurship. Topics this year include:

— The Entrepreneurial Teacher: The Issues, The Challenges, The Stakes

— Mapping the Entrepreneurship Territory

— Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset

— The Timmons Model of Entrepreneurship in Action

— The Case Study Method along with several cases

— New Venture Creation as a Rite of Passage: The First Year Start-Up

— Experiencing the Venture Capital Process

— Understanding Entrepreneurial Finance: Paint Pen Case

— Managing the Growing Venture: Nancy’s Coffee Case

— Social Entrepreneurship: Building Businesses for a Better World

— Preparing the Rocket Pitch

– Assuming the Identity of an Entrepreneur: Web 2.0 in Entrepreneurship Education

– What’s Next in Entrepreneurship Education? The Rocket Pitch Event

Trish Costello, Director, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, President Leonard Schlesinger, and Babson Professors Heidi Neck, Andrew Zacharakis, Erik Noyes, Les Charm, Candida Brush, Ernie Parizeau and Patti Greene are the faculty team for this program.

Since 1984, Babson has trained over 2100 academics and entrepreneurs from over 550 academic institutions, government organizations, and foundations in 57 countries, to teach entrepreneurship combining theory and practice to tens of thousands of students each year.

Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit www.babson.edu.

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WASHINGTON, May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA is taking further steps to engage undergraduate and graduate students in NASA science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, research and interactive opportunities. In one such effort, NASA has inducted more than 80 high-performing interns into the newly unveiled NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community. This first group of students includes interns from 35 states and 64 different universities.

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“As NASA prepares to develop and deploy a next generation of space vehicles, the agency requires greater depth of knowledge and pursuit of innovation than ever before,” said Joyce Winterton, assistant administrator for Education at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “To ensure success in meeting future exploration goals, NASA and the nation must adapt to the changing landscape and develop new strategies to cultivate its future workforce.”

NASA managers and mentors nominated the recipients from the hundreds of current interns and fellows across the agency. NASA provides internships that are among the most exciting research and education opportunities available to college students. This new online initiative further recognizes exceptional students.

Members of the NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community will interact with NASA, share information, make professional connections, collaborate with peers, represent NASA in a variety of venues, and help NASA inspire and engage future interns. Through the community’s Web site, participants will have access to tools needed to serve as a NASA Student Ambassador. The Web site provides the latest NASA news, blogs, and announcements; member profiles, forums, polls, and NASA contact information; and links to cutting-edge research and career resources.

“The NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community will serve as an outreach vehicle to the nation’s students as well as a way to engage exceptional Gen-Y NASA students,” said Mabel Matthews, NASA’s Higher Education manager and lead for the community. “This innovative activity will be a leading effort to help NASA attract, engage, educate and employ the next generation.”

One of the many ways NASA is engaging these participants is through attendance at the upcoming space shuttle mission, STS-127, targeted for launch June 13 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Office of Education has planned a pre-launch education forum titled “Strengthening the STEM Workforce: Strategies for Engaging Generation Y” and is inviting a number of Student Ambassadors to Florida to engage in discussions with leadership and other interns from NASA, industry and other federal agencies.

With this program and the agency’s other college and university programs, NASA will identify and develop the critical skills and capabilities needed to achieve its mission. This program is tied directly to the agency’s major education goal of strengthening NASA and the nation’s future workforce.

For more information about the NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community and to see an interactive map of the United States containing the names and schools of the 2009 Cohort I participants, visit:

http://intern.nasa.gov/

For more information about education at NASA, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/education

For information about NASA and its programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/

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CONTACT: Stephanie Schierholz of NASA Headquarters, Washington,
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