Edison Girls Going Places

On Tuesday, April 21 – Minneapolis-based Foster Klima & Company, LLC in partnership with the University of St. Thomas and the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America hosted the first Minneapolis Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Conference. Seventeen females from Edison attended the event that joined approximately 100 female students from middle school and high schools in Minnesota with 25 local women business owners, career executives, and entrepreneurs for activities and discussions that introduced the girls to the concepts of financial independence, entrepreneurship and business ownership. The event provided the girls an opportunity to meet with the women one on one to share ideas, experiences, and ask questions. In hopes of inspiring the girls to start their own business one day.

The conference also introduced the girls to the Guardian’s national Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program, which honors and grants $30,000 in cash prizes to girls ages 12 to 18 who demonstrate outstanding entrepreneurial abilities and service in the community. Prizes are granted to help winners and finalists save for college and continue their entrepreneurial pursuits. First place - $10,000; second place - $5,000; third - $3,000 and twelve $1,000.