The crowd was there to congratulate and reward children who excelled in the training program of innovation and entrepreneurship and chosen to be the first disciples who preach the beginning of the meeting. The kids were thrilled by the extremely honored by this experience that came to seal the exciting journey in the student entrepreneurship and called on their peers in Greece to get those part in the program “Virtual Enterprise”.
“We had our eyes closed and the program that opened them,” he said to the disciple Nikitas Marinos from the 1st General Lyceum of Kalymnos, president of the “Κalymnos Climbing Escape”, a pioneering online service for climbing in Kalymnos, which won the first national award for “Best Virtual Business 2015”. “The fact that I created my first business at the age of 15 years, to grow up, filled me with joy, hope, self-confidence and gave me the opportunity to live many and important experiences, such as today’s. I highly recommend all children to take part in the project “Virtual Company” and will see their life change radically, as it has changed mine”.
Nikitas impressed the hundreds of guests of SEN/JA Greece and the Athens stock Exchange, prominent representatives of the business world of the country. As the group “EPEIKON”, the third winner of last year’s nationwide competition from B’ arsakeio school high School of Psychiko. The “ΕΡΕΙΚΟΔ created an innovative mobile application that, in combination with glasses virtual reality tours virtual users in the Temple of Apollo epicurius in the Peloponnese.
“Entrepreneurship is a great journey with a lot of traffic stations, obstacles, difficulties, and exceptional experiences that χαλυβδώνουν the will, train the thinking and shaping of strong personalities,” said student Daphne Καπνίδου, General Director of “ΕΡΕΙΚΟΔ. “We’ve won so many that have really changed our lives. It is very important that the work of the RCN as it opens “doors” in the lives of all young people”.
Your own “Virtual Business” presented and students of the high School of Psychico College. With the “ΜαÏÏ” (Marathon APPlication)- an innovative mobile application, aimed at the promotion of the Authentic Marathon of Athens – they managed to conquer the 2nd Prize for “Best Virtual Business 2016” and to thrill the spectators in the Athens Stock exchange.
“During the creation of the “Mapp”, we lived very intense moments of joy, sorrow, fatigue and stress, but when our vision was implemented, the emotion was indescribable, we felt it was well worth it,” said the president of the “Mapp”, Theodora Τζουμανίκα. “Our course was, and still is, exciting. Thank you very much the SEN/JA Greece and the Athens Exchange for the opportunity they gave us today! Participation in the launch of the broker meeting is a unique experience that few can live. Will stay definitely unforgettable.”
The smart bin “Smileybin” which has a reward system for users, presented by the team from the high School psila Alonia, Pieria. The kids conquered not only the first place in the Nationwide Contest of 2016, but two very important awards in the european competition of Junior Achievement Europe.
“Our participation in the program of a Virtual Enterprise of the Association of Entrepreneurship of Young was unforgettable, unique and continues to fascinates us and moves us. Today, the Athens Stock exchange felt great honor while we made important contacts,” said the president of the “Smileybin” Maria Bones. “Greece is very lucky that there is the SEN/JA Greece. Does a great job every year helping children from all over the country to experience the world of entrepreneurship and to develop their abilities. As more kids get involved with entrepreneurship, so better goes to the country”.
The children warmly congratulated the Ceo of the Athens Exchange mr. Socrates Lazaridis, and the president of the Association of Youth Entrepreneurship/Junior Achievement Greece ms. Litsa Panayotopoulos. Mrs Panayotopoulos invited the attendees to get to know this year’s teams will present in a few days their own innovative “Virtual Companies” in Student fairs and Exhibitions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Athens and Thessaloniki. Children from Central and South Greece will be on 10 February at the Mall Athens in Maroussi, while students of Northern Greece will present their own student companies on 17 February in the Mediterranean Cosmοs in Thessaloniki, greece.
“Virtual Business” : a Global programme for student entrepreneurship
The global program “Virtual Enterprise” is carried out in Secondary Schools in Greece for 11 years, and from the non-profit educational organization “Association of Youth Entrepreneurship/Junior Achievement Greece”, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Research and church affairs. Is implemented without any financial burden for the children and the schools, supported by institutions, organizations and businesses. Gentlemen sponsors are MetLife, Citi, General Mills, the Hellenic Initiative, the National Bank, the SAP, the Accenture, the ΑΕGEAN and the Foundation of the hellenic world. The SEN/JA Greece is a carrier of the world’s educational organization Junior Achievement Worldwide, which implements programs for student innovation and entrepreneurship in 122 countries around the world.
A “program student “Virtual Business” changed our lives”, the kids said, “he gave us joy and hope”
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