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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>This is a project completed by 12 and 13 year old students. STEM
learning just got smarter by adding the business element. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
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margin-left:0cm;line-height:16.8pt'><a name=1></a><a
href="http://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher/2013/07/chicago-8th-graders-young-entrepreneurs-receive-crowd-source-funding-.html"><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099;
text-decoration:none'>Chicago 8th Graders – Young Entrepreneurs Receive Crowd
Source Funding </span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:0cm;line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
140%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#555555'>Posted: 09 Jul 2013 02:28
PM PDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>44 eighth graders from Chicago’s <strong><span
style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Nettelhorst</span></strong> Public
School explored the world of brainstorming and idea, designing a product,
developing a prototype, and funding a new business. The Science and
Entrepreneurship Exchange (SEE) provides elementary and middle school
students the opportunity to design new products and startup young businesses.
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<p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>The crowd loves the students’ new
product, the Elephant Hook™ created by the dig-8 pilot project team and
designed in SolidWorks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Students learn the tough process
of market research, raising capital, and product design revisions with the
help of Northwestern University students and great mentors and teachers like
inventor, <strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Joe
Born</span></strong> and marketing consultant, <strong><span
style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Ted Ganchiff</span></strong>,
Northwestern engineering professor, <strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Mike
Beltran</span></strong> and teachers <strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Julieanne
Van Fleet</span></strong>, <strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Michelle
Gunderson</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>John
Nieciak</span></strong>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'> <a
href="http://blogs.solidworks.com/.a/6a00d83451706569e201910427a9df970c-pi"><b><span
style='color:#000099;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1027"
src="http://blogs.solidworks.com/.a/6a00d83451706569e201910427a9df970c-800wi"
alt="Elephant hooks drawing"></span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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