Money Tree Youths To Show Business Ideas At WCIT 2008
The MONEYTREE Programme is a unique programme designed to educate and create financial intelligence amongst today's young generation, helping them cope with future financial challenges.
/E-Learning News Articles/ - KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, April 23, 2008 - Youths from 15 to 18 years old will be very much a part of the â œOlympics of ICTâ when they present and showcase their business ideas at next monthâ s World Congress on IT (WCIT) taking place from 18 to 22 May at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
These very young adults will be in the company of the giants of the IT world such as Dr. Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and Father of the Internet, Datoâ Dr. Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel Corporation, and many other luminaries from the ICT world.
These youths have completed the Money Tree programme, which teaches and coaches children from 9 to 19 years old on financial, investment and entrepreneurship. The presentation of their business ideas is the culmination of their training in Money Tree.
Several of these ideas are ICT related and have real world solutions in mind. Such as the online event organizer or the search engine enhanced by social networking are ideas that seek to bring greater innovation and improvements to our life.
â œIdeas and ICT have created positive impact to the Global economy. Ideas can come
from anywhere including youths. For this reason, Money Tree is proud to show what the young are capable of during WCIT2008â , says Gerard Lim, CEO of My Money Tree Sdn Bhd, the Malaysia licensee and subsidiary of Money Tree Asia Pacific Ltd (Hong Kong).
The Money Tree programme has trained more that 2,000 youths in the past 1 year.
The key to this programme is itâ s effective learning models, comprising of an Academy that delivers face-to-face coaching sessions, a portal that enable continuous learning via e-learning and its many activities, boot camps and workbooks, all combining to deliver an impactful learning experience.
Itâ s effective learning model through various interactive scenarios, whereby participants are given credit cards, cash, investment certifications and put through a â ˜mini economyâ in which earning, spending, saving and investing are part of the syllabus in the programme.
Gerard adds, â œOur mission in empowering youths to build a sound financial future does not stop here. In fact, we are in the midst of setting up a Young Entrepreneur Start-up Fund (or better known as the Y.E.S. Fund) that will complete the whole development process. Under the Y.E.S Fund, we will provide young entreprenuers from our programme with both the financial resource and skillsets required in their pursuit of setting up a business.â
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