High School Business for the Gifted
Business remains a hot course of study in college. But in high school, the college-bound still take college prep courses, and the "other kids" take business courses, according to Pierre David, a business professor who runs the Talented and Gifted Business Administration Summer Institute at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
"These talented and gifted kids--we know they have never taken a business course in their lives," says David. "And while we don't expect juniors and seniors with straight A's in college prep programs to go back and sign up for accounting, we know they do return with a better appreciation of how academic subjects such as algebra, calculus, social sciences, and English might actually help them in their careers."
The one-week camp, which has run for six years, offers 30 students--20 of them girls--some lectures on economics, management, accounting, and finance from college professors, but gifted students prefer active learning, says David. Computer simulations, and field trips to the Bonnie Bell cosmetics manufacturing plant and a game of Cleveland's WNBA Rockers, keep the kids busy. Every participant takes an interpretive Meyers-Briggs career test, and some have gone on to enroll in college business programs.
For more information on this year's Summer Institute, July 11-16, contact Pierre David, professor of business at Baldwin-Wallace College at 440-826-5925, [email protected], or George Richard in the college news office at 440-826-2328.
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