Global  Entrepreneurship Week continues with the first Urban Youth Startup Challenge to be held Friday, November 20 at Olin. 60 high school students from Normandy and U-City High Schools will be on campus for an all-day event of educational workshops, lunch, and a campus tour. Dean Gupta will be the keynote speaker.

Michael McLaughlin founded Unite4Kids organization while a student at Olin. He hiked the entire Appalachian Trail (and others), to raise funds and bring attention to the needs of abused and abandoned children around the world.

Michael McLaughlin, MBA’14, organizer of the event with Ricardo Perez, BSBA’17, said, “Best of all, we are fortunate to have WashU student entrepreneurs, as well as WashU professors, leading the workshops to share their expertise with these high school students.”

The workshops will prepare students for the final startup competition that will take place in April 2016. According to McLaughlin, “The Urban Youth Startup Challenge has been made possible by generous contributions from the Olin MBA Program and the Institute for School Partnership.”

For additional information, please contact:

Ricardo Perez (ricardoperez@wustl.edu)

Michael McLaughlin (mclaughlinm@wustl.edu)