Changing the Narrative & Creating Your Own Opportunity: Rethinking the Workforce - Digital Displacement
WETATi Academy, is a non-profit (501c(3)) Practical Entrepreneurship Education organization, located at and in partnership with Nyumburu Cultural Center, University of Maryland, College Park.
Our mission is to educate and empower low-to moderate-income students through practical and experiential activities that prepare them for employment, entrepreneurship, and future economic opportunities. Students are taught and shown the power of entrepreneurship using our practical and economic activities.
Here are the practical and economic activities of our program:
- Financial literacy
- Workforce Development
- STEMpreneur
- Entrepreneurship
- iDEA Lab
- Annual Dureke iDEA Pitch Competition
- Annual Scholarship & Awards Gala
- And more!
Our vision is to provide the youth with the practical tools they need to become critical thinkers, disruptive innovators, entrepreneurs, and become financially independent and gain equitable access to job creation and employment.