JAYE youth fair celebrates entrepreneurial success

Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Malta Foundation (JAYE Malta) will be organising a national youth fair on March 18 at The Point, Sliema. This is the first time that JAYE Malta is bringing together 150 participating students from post-secondary and tertiary entrepreneurship programmes to sell and exhibit their products created during the course of their entrepreneurship education programmes. The Company Programme (CP) and Start Up Programme offer youth the opportunity to design, create and produce their own businesses over a period of eight months. The fair provides these young people the chance to engage with the public, customers and potential investors in their business idea as they enter the final stage of the competitions. At the end of each competition, winners will be elected by an independent panel of judges to represent Malta at two separate European competitions in Helsinki and Brussels this summer. This year JAYE Malta will also be organising activities for primary and secondary students throughout the day in what is sure to be an entrepreneurship extravaganza. Together with dedicated volunteer mentors, they will also immerse into the world of solving problems they...