I’m Marina Kuperman Villatoro. 

 

I’ve been an entrepreneur for over two decades. I personally own and run three businesses. Not including starting 'Entrepreneurship for Kids' school program. And, like many entrepreneurs, it has taken me years and thousands of dollars to learn (and unlearn) skills and reprogram my mindset that is needed to succeed in business and life.

 

Let’s face it, our kids will not be able to succeed in the modern, entrepreneurial economy without having the right tools to get them there.

 

Out of my own frustrations that my own kids aren’t getting this education in school, I started the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program at my oldest son’s middle school – Antigua Green School.

 

Working closely with the director, who is an entrepreneur himself and a visionary, he is completely supporting this revolutionary subject where most of the classes are actually outside of the classroom.

 

Let’s get real, in life very little happens in a classroom or any sort of room. All the true magic, action, creation and business happens outside either networking, creating, exploring, etc…

 

Seeing the kids come alive with ideas, meeting and working with entrepreneurs who are already doing it and learning from them has shown me that this is absolutely crucial for our kids to evolution whatever path they decide to take.

 

And that is also the reason I have decided to organize, with the kids and school, TEDxAntiguaGreenSchool.