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NACCE/HP LIFE PARTNERSHIP Starting a Small Business! By Leah Deppert, manager, Marketing and Communication, NACCE NACCE’s partnership with HP LIFE helps community college students across the U.S. learn core business areas including operations, marketing, finance, communications and more. It is with these skills that students are able to create their own jobs or spur innovation as employees in other firms. News & Updates: • HP LIFE recently released a new course, Starting a Small Business! This course teaches students about entrepreneurship, the steps to starting a small business, creating a business plan, a nd metrics to measure business success. It uses the new My Business Plan tool to guide you through the process. Consider using it in one of your spring 2018 courses! (See screenshots of the course below.) • The My Business Plan tool is now available! Users can write their business plan on HP LIFE and download it for further editing. My Business Plan is available from the HP LIFE dashboard. • Flash Player is being removed from all browsers, and this causes the HP LIFE course activities to not load. HP LIFE has republished all of the courses in HTML5 to remove the Flash Player requirement. • HP Foundation and WorldSkills collaborated to develop the BeChangeMaker (BCM), an online social entrepreneurship experience that • gives students have the opportunity to work in teams to design a socially responsible product, service, or business. The winners were announced and are quite impressive. Read more here (bit.ly/BeChangeMaker) and encourage your students to enter this upcoming fall! HP LIFE will release a new course on 3D printing in spring 2018! In this course, students will learn how 3D printing can enable you to design, prototype and manufacture new products. Stay tuned for more details! Interested in learning more about HP LIFE? Here’s how you can get involved: • Connect with one of our HP LIFE/NACCE Ambassadors! Kimberly Simons, professor of Business Administration at Madisonville • Community College (KY), can be reached at [email protected] and Darcie Tumey, program coordinator for the Business Administration Program at Catawba Valley Community College (NC), can be reached at [email protected]. Check out the program for yourself by creating a free account at www.life-global.org/go/nacce. ● Contact: [email protected] National Association For Community College Entrepreneurship • nacce.com 9