Entrepreneurship training and education opportunities in Maine
Middle and High Schools
- Bath Regional Vocational Center: grades 10-12; entrepreneurship education is incorporated into management, business, and marketing courses (four one-hour classes each week for one semester).
- Biddeford Regional Center of Technology: grades 10-12; offers programs in entrepreneurship and small business management (75 minutes per day, 5 days per week for one semester).
- Foster Regional Applied Technology Center (Farmington): grades 10-12; provides curriculum on entrepreneurship and small business management.
- Lewiston Regional Technical Center: grades 10-12; offers a course that gives an introduction to entrepreneurship (80-minute blocks every other day for entire school year).
- Oxford Hills Technical School: grades 11-12; entrepreneurship education is incorporated into a marketing course (2.5 class periods per week for 16 weeks).
- Presque Isle Technology Center: grades 11-12; entrepreneurship education is incorporated into a small business ownership course (one period per day).
- Region 10, Brunswick: grades 10-12; offers a course in marketing and entrepreneurship (program meets for half a day, five days per week).
- Region 2, Houlton: grades 11-12; offers a business technology course that integrates entrepreneurship curriculum.
- Westbrook Regional Vocational Center: grades 8-12; offers a course in marketing education and real-life experience operating the school store (80-minute classes, five days per week plus at least two 30-minute shifts in school store).
- Jay High School: grades 11-12; offers a course in exploration of business topics, including entrepreneurship (one class period every other day).
- Oak Hill High School (Wales): grades 9, 11, 12; offers two courses: intro to business in grade 9 and economics and marketing in grades 11-12; courses include entrepreneurship curriculum (one-semester class).
- Windham High School: grades 11-12; course in entrepreneurship offered (one-semester course).
- Brooksville Elementary School: grades 7-8; electronic publishing course that develops yearbook also includes entrepreneurship curriculum (two hours per week).
- The University of Southern Maine’s Center for Entrepreneurship offers "The Buzz on Biz" for high school students.
- Machias Memorial High School offers an entrepreneurship program for students interested in starting their own company.
- Hebron Academy hosted the week-long EntrePrep Summer Institute in July 2008. This institute provides rising juniors and seniors with the opportunity to learn entrepreneurial practices and principles. For more information: www.entreprep.org/home.php Hebron Academy also offers an entrepreneurship program and the Entrepreneurial Challenge competition. For more information: www.hebronacademy.org/academy/upper/leadership.asp.
Adult Education
- Rockland Adult Education: includes some entrepreneurial education as part of a 3-week intensive job readiness program.
- Windham Adult Education: offered a training opportunity for Lakes Region entrepreneurs and entrepreneur training series.
Maine Community College System
- Eastern Maine Community College: certificate program in entrepreneurship launched in 2005.
- Kennebec Valley Community College: certificate program in new business offered; courses include Introduction to Entrepreneurship and The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Small Business Management. An online course in small business management was offered during the spring semester of 2008.
- Southern Maine Community College: program in entrepreneurship and business ownership offered.
- Entrepreneurial Center at Southern Maine Community College: the Entrepreneurial Center has a business incubator program as well as a six-credit business start-up certificate and a 15-credit certificate of business ownership. There are also non-credit courses offered on a regular basis to both enrolled students and the general public. For more information
University of Maine System
- Augusta: courses offered through the College of Mathematics and Professional Studies. Outreach with Women, Work, and Community.
- Farmington: 2-3 related courses offered in the Department of Social Sciences and Business. Outreach with FastTrac.
- Fort Kent: the e-commerce and small business management degree programs both incorporate entrepreneurship curriculum.
- Orono: offers an entrepreneurship course through College of Business, Public Policy, and Health. The UMaine Cooperative Extension does research on microenterprise development.
- Presque Isle: offers an entrepreneurship course through the Department of Business and International Studies.
- University of Southern Maine: the School of Business offers a concentration in Entrepreneurship in its academic program.
