I've always thought about starting an organization which was just about entrepreneurship for kids. I went through all the scouting levels, and I think there's

I've always thought about starting an organization which was just about entrepreneurship for kids. I went through all the scouting levels, and I think there's a lot of good things in there, I also think there's a lot of cruft left over from when it was a thinly disguised military preparedness course. Salutes, khaki uniforms, ranks, etc : all a bit much for me back then, and I wouldn't put my own kids in it now. Of course it has probably modernised quite a bit but I suspect a lot of it is still the same. What I'd like to do is keep the good things about scouts : personal responsibility, teamwork, goal setting and acheiving, respect for adults etc and tie it in with an entrepreneurial focus : team building, idea generation, production, marketing, distribution, legal understanding. The idea would be to work on mini-projects a bit like they do on 'the apprentice', with the goal of generating funding for both the club/group/whatever and of returning funds to charity. There would also be aspects of social and environmental responsibility tied in with the work. The projects would be fun for kids, whether it is commissioning a line of t-shirts, selling flowers or doing an e-bay drive. My reasoning for this is that I think within the space of a couple of generations, people have gone from usually-self employed to usually-corporate employed, and as such get very little control over their lives. It's the entrepreneurs that grow economies and improve lives, and yet it gets virtually no attention throughout school.