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Entrepreneurship is the spark. College, career and life success are the goals.

BUILD is an entrepreneurship program for underserved high school students that teaches them how to build their own business while becoming the CEO of their own lives.

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We connect our young entrepreneurs to a network of volunteer mentors from the business world who light a path along the way, creating access and opportunity.

Every year in America, there are half a million, brilliant kids dropping out of high school.

Entrepreneurship means opportunity – for the students BUILD serves and for all of us through a more diverse, equitable and interconnected community.

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Being Latino at a Predominantly White Institution | Diversity & Social Action, Article #3
Being Latino at a Predominantly White Institution | Diversity & Social Action, Article #3September 19, 2023This Blog Post is from BUILD Alumni, Hamid Cruz Born and raised in the Bronx, I was always surrounded by other students of similar backgrounds to mine. Low-income areas of […]Read More
Google Hosts BUILD Pittsburgh’s Teacher Fellowship
Google Hosts BUILD Pittsburgh’s Teacher FellowshipSeptember 6, 2023From Mike Capsambelis, Director of Product Management & Community Outreach Lead at Google. “We help students become the CEOs of their own lives.” – Rashaida Melvin   I’m so excited […]Read More
BUILD.org Announces the Winning Team of the BUILDFest Metro DC Pitch Challenge
BUILD.org Announces the Winning Team of the BUILDFest Metro DC Pitch ChallengeJuly 24, 2023BUILD.org declared the winning high school team, Choice 1 Landz from Roosevelt S.T.A.Y. Academy, the first-place winner of the 2023 BUILDFest Metro D.C. Youth Pitch Challenge. The final round of […]Read More

VIDEO PREPARATION GUIDELINES

HOW TO RECORD

1. iPhone, iPad, Zoom and Loom are all choices of recording tools for their video presentation 
2. Record with both students and their presentation in view
3. Record horizontally for the best view of the students and their presentation
4. Follow Presentation Diagram to the Right

PRESENTATION TIPS.

- Make eye contact with the camera
- Notecards may be used as cue cards
•Pro Tip: Notecards should avoid having a full script
- Even when you are not speaking, don’t forget the camera is still recording!
•Be aware of your body language while you and your business partners are speaking
- Everyone has an opportunity to speak
- Professional dress is encouraged
- Practice makes perfect
•Practice how you will transition from each speaker
•Project your voice when you speak​

Follow positioning format Above

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