Machart Joins Educators At Conference

Culbertson High School teacher Mary Machart recently traveled to Nashville for a four-day conference sponsored by Kansas-based national organization Youth Entrepreneurs.

Machart and nine other Montanans were invited to join a select group of 125 ambassador- educators from 36 states to learn about the organization’s transition to Empowered.

Empowered builds on YE’s 30-year success as a business curriculum to reach a broader audience including all teachers in all subject areas.

During the conference Machart and her colleagues learned the theory and practice of Empowered’s evidence- based methodology as a tool that uses real-world situations to promote positive mental health, the development of employability soft skills, and to unleash students’ entrepreneurial mindset, a mindset that sees any challenge in life as an opportunity to achieve something great…for themselves, their families and communities.

Through hands-on workshops, field trips demonstrating how to bridge the traditional school-community divide, team-building competitions and interactive debrief sessions, Machart and her fellow teachers returned home ready to implement YE’s Empowered program during the upcoming 20212022 school year.

For more information about YE, visit youthentrepreneurs. org