Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Hosts World's Top Student Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship Teachers

NEW YORK, March 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Outstanding young entrepreneurs and teachers from around the world will be honored March 25 in New York City at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship's (NFTE) Global Showcase. Sara Blakely, one of the nation's best known and most successful entrepreneurs, will speak with students at the evening event.

"It is a great privilege to showcase these exceptional entrepreneurship students and teachers," said Shawn Osborne, President and CEO of NFTE. "They really are the future of global innovation, financial inclusion and prosperity and we're delighted they could join us in New York and share their talents and stories."

In total, the NFTE Global Showcase, presented by MasterCard, will feature student and teacher delegations from 29 locations around the world (list below) including India, China, Mexico, Ireland, Israel and Colombia as well as more than a dozen U.S. communities from San Francisco to Miami. The Showcase will give the students an opportunity to display and sell their business products to attendees. Students invited to the Showcase will be recognized as Global Young Entrepreneurs and the most outstanding teacher in each participating region will receive the Global Enterprising Educator Award.

The NFTE Global Showcase, Presented by MasterCard will take place:

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 7:00pm
Gotham Hall – 1356 Broadway
New York City

Before the event, students will participate in a Day of Learning, also sponsored by MasterCard, in which students will learn about branding and brand identity and participate in activities with leaders from MasterCard, Twitter and Google. The Day of Learning will take place:

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 between 8:00am and 1:00pm
Vanderbilt Room, Roosevelt Hotel - 45 E 45th Street
New York City

"Our work with NFTE is just one way we can help inspire and support future generations of business leaders in taking their first strides into the formal economy," said Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing Officer, MasterCard, who will also speak at the Showcase. "At MasterCard, we invest time, effort and resources to create programs and solutions that fuel the spirit of entrepreneurship in an inclusive manner across the globe."

At the evening Showcase, students will be able to pose questions to Sara Blakely. Blakely founded Spanx with her personal savings in 2000, was named the world's youngest, self-made female billionaire by Forbes Magazine and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People. Since launching the Sara Blakely Foundation in late 2006, Sara and Spanx have donated roughly $24 million to The Spanx by Sara Blakely Foundation that supports education and entrepreneurship among women.

Here are the student entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship teachers being honored at the NFTE Global Showcase, listed alphabetically by location:

United States:

Baltimore: Cyprian Ekeagwu will showcase: Green Tech – A radio controlled educational hovercraft toy built from recyclable materials      
Educator: Karl Sanzenbacher, Roland Park Elementary Middle School       

Boston/New England: Carlos Perez will showcase: Perez Technology Group – A cloud-based IT consulting company
Educator: Jill McNamara, Lowell High School

Chicago: Terrence Thompson will showcase: Project Lens Chicago – Employs high school students in the film-creation process 
Educator: Danny Gray, Thornwood High School           

Cleveland: Jailynn McGill will showcase: Bedda – A natural, organic, handmade bath and body product for all skin types
Educator: Tamie Carlisle, John F. Kennedy High School

Dallas/North Texas: Hannah Edwards will showcase: The Green Tee – A 100% biodegradable golf tee made of fertilizer 
Educator: Stephen Thomas, Greiner Middle School

DC Region: Abigail Hamilton will showcase: Patriot Portraits – Photographs military families at monthly photography events
Educator: Egheosa Igbinoba, Calvin Coolidge Senior High School

Fresno: Kelsey Hershey will showcase: Poppy's Jam – An organic all natural strawberry jam made with fresh ingredients from local central valley farmers
Educator: Linda Jean Voth, Roosevelt High School

Georgia: Diana Morales will showcase: Natural Glow (Brillo Natural) – Organic beauty products
Educator: Michael Green, Cross Keys High School

Kansas: Abisai Reyes will showcase: CleanCo – Offers office cleaning/janitorial services 
Educator: Brandon Reith, Wichita High School East

Los Angeles: Uriel Miramontes will showcase: Uriel's Photography – A photography business
Educator: Timothy Dura, Hawthorne Math and Science Academy

Miami/South Florida: Everette Slocum will showcase: Little Brown Box Works – Mobile applications 
Educator: Michael Brennan, Nova Middle School

NYC Metro: Adeleny Minaya will showcase: adelenyPOPS – High quality natural and unique flavors for cake pops 
Educator: Clarence Tennell, Business of Sports School

New York, Westchester/CT (Fairchester): Ambar Romero will showcase: Styles by Ambar – Fashionably recycles women's clothing with a philanthropic focus on organizations that support and help women
Educator: Steven Mulqueen, Lincoln High School

Philadelphia: Patrick Bampfield will showcase: Vocab Commander – App that provides SAT and ACT vocabulary practice 
Educator: Angie Cooper-Parham, Lincoln High School

Pittsburgh: Ivonna Moore will showcase: Affection Connection Blankets – Children's blankets
Educator: Kurt Mahan, Brownsville Area High School

San Francisco Bay Area: Timothy Perez will showcase: TP Designs – Professional website design for educators, non-profits and small businesses
Educator: Tara Coburn, Oak Grove High School

St. Louis: Jordan Harden will showcase: Neostring – A shoestring that eliminates the need to retie shoes
Educator: Raghib Muhammad, McCluer South-Berkeley High School

South Carolina/YEScarolina: George Dowis will showcase: Wimbees – Small, beaded, insect-like art pieces 
Educator: Jennifer Molnar, Fort Mill High School          

International:

Australia: Dakota Baker and Jay McLean will showcase: Baldja Moort – An aboriginal traditional dance group

Belgium: Mathias Mornie and Filiep Reynaert will showcase: Fisherman's Paradise – A specialty store catering to fishermen/women
Educator: Sibylle Humblet, YouthStart

China: Yulian Wang will showcase: Tofu Family – Providing colorful, nutritious, different flavor of tofu

China: Lulu Zhang will showcase: Maya Digital Technology Co., Ltd. – Mobile phone game; HTML 5

China: Tao Zhang will showcase: China Shanghai Protective Equipment Co. Ltd. – protective equipment
Educator: Lizhen Yu, Urban and rural construction school

Colombia: Isabella Agudelo Marin and Yeny Pinzon Mora will showcase: Productos Orgánicos – Fertilizer produced from banana debris leachate
Educator: Nohora Helena Jaramillo, Institución Educativa BOLIVARIANO

Germany: Ashley Twumasi will showcase: FromNorthToWest (FNTW) – Sportswear, dancing trousers
Educator:  Dr.Jochen Blaha, Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Niddatal

India:  Educator: Anantha Kumar Jambur, Bangalore University

Ireland: Clara Hewston will showcase: Look 2 Cook – A variety of cookery books to help all children to learn to bake using only pictures, no words
Educator: Ailbe Coleman, Ballincollig Garda Youth Diversion Project

Israel: Avi Aharon, Maor Aharon, Nisim Fahima and Avi Hezkayev will showcase: Find It - a radio wave sticker for finding everyday objects 
Educator: Marwa Maklada, Art Technology Daliat el Karmel

Mexico: Daniel Navarro Pérez will showcase:  Heaven's Riders – Games for mobile devices
Educator: Diana Franco Pérez, University La Salle

Singapore: Jiang Hoe "Xavier" Tan will showcase: Café on Wheels – A mobile café that moves around Singapore housed on a double decker bus
Educator: Mohammad Shahril Bin Jumat, Evergreen Secondary School

United Kingdom: Anastasia Enyioma, Hannah Ali, Abishna Vamadevan and Jada Walters will showcase: AJJA Ltd. - App which encourages healthy cooking and reduces food waste
Educator: Tracey Scarsbrook, Norbury Manor Business and Entreprise College     

Editor's Notes: Photos of the students and teachers are available. The morning Day of Learning event will be more TV and photograph friendly.

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The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Since 1987, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) has taught and inspired more than 500,000 young people to pursue educational opportunities, start their own businesses, and succeed in life. By providing entrepreneurship education programs relevant to the real world, NFTE empowers students to own their education and future success. NFTE has programs run through 17 U.S. program offices and in 9 countries. To learn more visit www.nfte.com, like us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/NFTE and follow us on Twitter at @NFTE

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