Innovation In Business Conference: A unique summer program held by Arizona State University (ASU) & LeadAmerica for high-achieving high school students. Great way to stand out on your college application!

Program Date For Summer 2012:  June 25-June 30

ASU’s internationally renowned faculty will present an exciting college-level curriculum and give you powerful insights on innovation, sustainability and into the business world of an emerging green economy.

Arizona State University and LeadAmerica have partnered to offer high school students the opportunity to experience firsthand one of the nation's top entrepreneurial schools. ASU is ranked one of the “Best National Universities” in U.S. News & World Report’s 2011 “America’s Best Colleges” and named on The Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll in 2010 and 2011. LeadAmerica is at the forefront of personalized experiential education and collaborates with some of the top colleges and universities throughout the United States to offer college immersion programs designed to better prepare high school students academically and emotionally for the transition to college life and beyond.

Here’s your chance to be an entrepreneur and utilize many of the skills you will need to turn your great idea into a successful business, develop a business plan for profitability and “sell” your idea to investors. Make a difference by creating a green business that can help protect our fragile planet through wise innovation. Go beyond the environmental concerns of sustainability to confront the social and economic challenges of resource management, technology, energy and consumption. You will also visit leading local corporations to get a firsthand look at how they are succeeding!

Attendance at the Innovation In Business Conference  can help high school students stand out on their college application and help college admissions officers identify them as top-level achievers and high-potential candidates. They can also develop essential leadership skills that will last a lifetime.

Explore your future path while living on the ASU campus and taking part in real college life as a high school student! The Innovation In Business Conference is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

All questions should be directed to LeadAmerica, the administrator of the program.

For more information or to enroll, visit LeadAmerica's website at www.lead-america.org/asu or call an Advisor at 1-866-394-5323

About LeadAmerica:

LeadAmerica, one of the nation’s educational leaders in personalized experiential learning, offers outstanding, high-achievinghigh schoolstudents the opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and the experience of real college life while they explore their future path and discover what inspires them most. LeadAmerica partners and collaborates with some of the top colleges and universities throughout the United States to offer college immersion programs designed to better prepare thesestudents academically and emotionally for the transition to college life and beyond. Their mission is to build a more globally competitive America with college-bound students. Higher education of our youth is key, and the economic fate of today’s students is tied decisively to their educational success. There is a distinct and growing economic gap between those who have completed their college degree and those who have not. LeadAmerica is committed to closing that gap. LeadAmerica high school conferences are college-accredited, and all curriculum has been approved by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) for the seventh consecutive year.