Do you dream of becoming an entrepreneur while in high school? Come to TyE! TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TyE) is a TiE-Boston initiative that aims at nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs. This program introduces entrepreneurship and business to high school students improving their self confidence and developing leadership skills and capabilities. TyE-Boston is now seeking highly motivated high school students for this program. Click here to apply for this program.

TyE is TiE-Boston’s signature program for high school students with a mission to excite young people to discover the rewards and challenges of becoming entrepreneurs and business leaders. Established in 2005, TyE Boston is embarking on its seventh successful year of operation. Over 200 students have participated in the program from over 25 local schools. 

During the program, students attend interactive discussions and workshops on Saturday mornings which are led by industry experts and entrepreneurs. Last year several business luminaries spoke to the TyE students which included Nitin Nohria, Dean of HBS; Ashok Boghani, Monitor Group; Partho Ghosh, The Boston Pledge; and Elizabeth Thornton, Professor Babson College.

As part of the TyE program, students participate in a 10K Business Plan competition where they pitch their business plans to VCs and leading entrepreneurs at the Annual TyE Gala. The winning team from Boston then participates in the TyE-Global 25K Business Plan competition.

The Annual TyE Gala held in April is grand celebration of the winners of the TyE 10K Business Plan competition. Each year, this event attracts over 150 attendees which includes TyE students, Parents, Charter Members, Sponsors, Keynote Speakers and Special guests. Past attendees at TyE Gala have heard inspirational stories from eminent leaders and entrepreneurs like Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., MACP, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Eswar Priyadarshan, CTO & Co-Founder, Quattro Wireless; Akhil Nigam, Founder & President, Mass Challenge and many more.

The TyE program was adopted by TiE-Global in 2009 and is now offered to other TiE chapters. This year, 19 TiE chapters are running a TyE Program, where each chapter will hold its local TyE competition and the winner from all TyE chapters will participate in the TyE-Global competition in April 2012. Two TyE Global competitions have been conducted till date and TyE-Boston students have emerged as first and second prize winners in the two years respectively.

Since the inception of TyE, several companies have been launched by TyE Alumni students. Two TyE alumni students Mohini Srivastav and Kyle Kahveci started myskylark.com which integrates all online teenagers' activities on to one platform. Another student Naman Bharadwaj, launched a robotics company, Shaqbot.

The TyE experience is life changing for several students, some get direction on a career path, others get help with fine tuning their college application, and some others hone in their presentation skills. In all the transformation of high school students into entrepreneurs is highly rewarding.

TyE-Boston is now seeking high motivated high school students looking to do something different and exciting! We are inviting applications for the TyE Class of 2011-12. If you would like to learn more about the program, click here. To download the application form, click here. The application deadline is August 22, 2011. For any questions, please email Suneha Kadimdiwan at suneha@tie-boston.org or call 781-272-3875.

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