Seventy-five college students from three Houston ISD faculties had been inducted Monday right into a enterprise and entrepreneurial internship program launched by rapper 50 Cent.
The scholars, who attend Kashmere, Worthing, and Wheatley excessive faculties, are anticipated to finish a 12-week after-school course during which they’ll study enterprise ideas and attend a “enterprise lab” twice every week for 2 hours, in keeping with the district.
This system will culminate in a contest judged by 50 Cent, whose actual identify is Curtis Jackson, Al Kashani, president of Horizon United Group, which is a part of the partnership launching the initiative, and group leaders who will choose winners to obtain seed cash to begin companies. Jackson’s philanthropic group, the G-Unity Basis, funded $300,000 over two years for this system and HISD is matching the funds.
Throughout a kick-off ceremony at Wheatley Excessive College, Jackson requested the gathered college students who needed to earn money. A sea of palms rose throughout the auditorium rows in entrance of him.
1of16Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson laughs as he greets a pupil from Wheatley Excessive College through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less2of16Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson laughs as he greets a pupil from Wheatley Excessive College through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less3of16HISD Superintendent Millard Home II speaks through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less4of16Horizon United President Al Kashani speaks through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less5of16Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson greets highschool college students from Worthing Excessive College through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less6of16A Worthing pupil hugs Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less7of16Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson laughs as he greets a pupil from Kashmere Excessive College through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less8of16Patrice Allen, supervisor of the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, speaks through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less9of16Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner blows out candles on a birthday cake introduced out for him as Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson appears on as Jackson’s track “In Da Membership” performs through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less10of16Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson factors on the crowd as he listens through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less11of16Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson listens through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less12of16Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson speaks through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less13of16Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson speaks through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less14of16Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner laughs with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as he speaks through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less15of16Wheatley college students hear through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less16of16Wheatley college students hear through the induction ceremony for the G-Unity Enterprise Lab, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Wheatley Excessive College in Houston. The initiative is a partnership between Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unity Basis and Houston Unbiased College District. The enterprise lab will provide MBA-style enterprise courses for college kids curious about entrepreneurial endeavors.Mark Mulligan/Employees photographerShow MoreShow Less
“While you develop up with the circumstances that I grew up below, it begins to really feel like the most important restraint is the monetary restraint,” Jackson advised the children. “I labored actually arduous towards that, like I did issues to attempt to to not be below these circumstances. And I simply need to have the ability to assist present packages that enable you the knowledge to do it the appropriate method.”
HISD Superintendent Millard Home II referred to as this system a possibility of a lifetime.
“This system aligns with HISD’s imaginative and prescient to be equitable and educate the entire little one by offering the educational and non-academic helps essential to make sure that our college students can grow to be full world economic system college students,” Home stated. “They’ll graduate with vital considering alternatives and problem-solving prospects, studying core enterprise ideas, like writing a proper marketing strategy, with the assist of HISD lecturers, Houston enterprise leaders and the muse.”
One after the other, the scholars had been referred to as to stroll throughout a stage to shake Jackson’s hand. With a large smile on his face, he embraced among the college students, pulling them in for a hug, whereas leaning into the ears of others and briefly speaking to them.
Gabriel Flint, a Wheatley tenth grader, was among the many college students who obtained a number of personal phrases of encouragement from the rap star. Jackson advised him to take this system severely as a result of it was a giant alternative, he stated.
“I used to be a bit of zoned and I believe he observed it,” Flint stated. “I used to be simply form of amazed like, ‘Wow, I’m right here.’”
Flint already has a giant thought. After this system, the teen, who needs to review botany in faculty, wish to construct a soup kitchen and a neighborhood backyard so households may get no matter meals they want with out worrying about price.
“I’m most excited for the teachings,” Flint stated. “I wish to know the method. I wish to know the way to get to and thru faculty and get to the enterprise I wish to create.”
Kennedy Nelms, a senior at Kashmere Excessive, stated she was excited to find out about enterprise and entrepreneurship. She needs to begin a clothes line catering to individuals who don’t all the time comply with vogue developments. She stated she needs to assist others by finally passing on what she learns.
“I’m trying ahead to with the ability to study,” Nelms stated. “I would like to have the ability to study the entire issues that they’re attempting to show us.”
