College is again in session, and rapper and entrepreneur Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is taking issues up a notch as town witnesses Houston Impartial College District college students compete within the 2nd Annual G-Unity Enterprise Lab “Hustle Tank” Competitors on the College of Houston on Could 10.
On the inaugural occasion, the competitors was arrange equally to the tv present Shark Tank, the place 75 college students from simply Wheatley, Kashmere, and Worthing Excessive Colleges spend the college yr making ready their enterprise plans for his or her firms together with the steerage of their mentors and coaches, to be pitched in entrance of Hustle Tank judges, together with Jackson himself.
This yr, this system has expanded the competitors to a few new HISD colleges, internet hosting a complete of 150 college students divided into 13 groups competing for $500,000 seed cash to launch their enterprise plans.
“This yr we’ve expanded to a few colleges: Booker T Washington, Madison, and Yates. It’s thrilling as a result of these are the college districts the place I’d be at. These are the faculties I’d be in. So, it’s like me affecting the place I’d be rising up,” mentioned Jackson throughout his introduction speech. “It’s necessary for me to have the ability to create a form of create a possibility for them to have a greater begin. You wouldn’t have the ability to obtain the sort of curriculum or kind of program till you’re in faculty.”
The winners of the 2023 competitors are:
First Place – Yates Excessive College: Caribbean Hotdog Boys
Second Place – Worthing Excessive College: Sunny Szn’s
Third Place : Kashmere Excessive College: Dexterious Designs
Fourth Place : Booker T. Washington: Legacy Artwork
“This technology continues to stay in areas mentally and bodily that problem the artwork of development,” Dr. Patrice Allen, G-Unity Enterprise Lab Senior Supervisor mentioned. “Accepting this mission was nothing totally different … With out the scholars down right here none of that is potential.”
Revelina Berto is a Jake Yates Excessive College math instructor and coach for Caribbean Hotdog boys. She mentioned her groups’ win means rather a lot to her college students and all the faculty.
“For Yates to be part of a program like this particularly with our faculty ranking … it simply exhibits you could’t choose a fish on if it could climb a tree, it’s important to choose it on what a fish can do,” she mentioned. “Identical factor with our college students. As soon as you set them of their ingredient, they may present you what they will do.”
The G-Unity Enterprise Lab is a pilot program in Houston ISD supported by Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Horizon United Group. This system is a laser-focused, one-year course on entrepreneurship for highschool college students residing in communities with a excessive want of educational and social providers. College students will dive into MBA-level classes that signify the complete lifecycle of a product or idea.
For extra info, go to the G-Unity Basis web site.
