How about a week of "economic gardening" for students like "The Apprentice" but nobody get’s fired.

Two dozen students from Iowa, Iowa State and U-N-I will be in Okoboji this summer for a week-long course that its creators call "economic gardening." David Hensley of the Entrepreneurial Center at the University of Iowa helped develop the upcoming Entrepreneurial Institute at West Lake Okoboji’s Lakeside Lab.

Hensley says the students will divide into teams and simulate start-up companies. "They have to put together production plans, marketing plans, financial plans," Hensley says. "In the middle of the week, they go through a simulated venture fair where they actually have to present the results of their companies to community venture capitalists who’ll teach them how to present and work with investors."

by O.Kay Henderson

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