Sharon and YOUTHpreneur highlighted in Arizona Republic

The Arizona Republic highlighted the work Sharon is doing with YOUTHpreneur in a great article published today in the Valley & State section. The article details Sharon’s work with the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix and how she is helping instill the entrepreneurial spirit in them. Here is a great excerpt. Please check out the full article.

The YOUTHpreneur program teaches children how to make money through gumball sales, and she’s teamed with local branches of the Boys & Girls Clubs and Fry’s Food Stores. Through the program, children learn about sales and profits by operating a candy machine at a Fry’s store. “It was a good experience. We learned about business,” said Michael Clark, a 14-year-old from Greenway Middle School in Phoenix. “We had fun doing it, and we made some money for the Boys & Girls Club. So, it was all good.” Lechter, of Paradise Valley, has taught the YOUTHpreneur program to about 70 children at six different Boys & Girls Clubs branches during the past year, and she’s selling the program on her Web site, youthpreneur.net.