Host an event during GEW Penn State 2021

Join us November 8 – 12 to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week! If you’re planning on hosting an event in the month of November that supports the national themes of education, ecosystems, inclusion, and policy, we want to help you promote it.

To have your event listed on the Penn State GEW website please complete the GEW Event Details Form. Upon submitting your event, you will receive access to a GEW digital marketing and communications toolkit to help with your promotional efforts.

If you’re unable to host an event this year, you’re welcome to attend any number of #GEWPSU events. This year’s celebration will feature a variety of virtual and hybrid sessions, so no matter where you are across the Commonwealth (or the world), you’ll be able to tune in.

The GEW event schedule is being updated daily. Be sure to bookmark the page below and check back regularly so you don’t miss out on these fantastic events!

Focus on Local: PA Wilds + Hello Social team up for GEW event

Businesses and organizations in the Pennsylvania Wilds seeking to receive hands-on social media marketing training for their brand have an opportunity to attend a November 8 mini-conference-style workshop in Emporium. The event is being held as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week at Penn State University, and is sponsored by the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship.

To be held from 10 a.m. to noon on November 8 at the Cameron County Artisan Center, the Focus on Local: Community-Based Social Media Marketing Workshop features customized marketing training based on Hello Social Co.’s “Focus on Local” Approach. During the session, participants will learn how to position their business or organization and their entire community as a destination for residents and visitors alike.

RECENT WCO NETWORK UPDATES

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  Full Circle Bioconversion LLC: Turning food waste into a business
  As a child, the Pennsylvania woods were Aubrey Fornwalt’s playground and the stream was her pool. After a life change in 2016 led her back to her childhood home in Lycoming County, Fornwalt took a risk and bought some black soldier flies for a composting business, taking inspiration from the woods and insects she loved as a child. Two years later, it grew into what would become Full Circle Bioconversion, based in the city of Williamsport in the Pine Creek Valley and PA Grand Canyon landscape and I-80 Frontier landscape of the Pennsylvania Wilds region.
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  Blackbird Distillery: Making shine and making friends
  Not too many businesses can say they create their product completely from start to finish, but the folks at Blackbird Distillery can! Located in Brookville along the I-80 Frontier landscape and the Cook Forest and the Ancients landscape within the Pennsylvania Wilds, Blackbird Distillery is a one-of-a-kind place that takes pride in showing visitors the magic of how their product is made.
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  Judy Schrader: Creating small, but very mighty art
  Judy Schrader’s love for art began when she was just a child, and it soon grew into a lifetime of creation. Based in Warren County in the Allegheny National Forest and Surrounds landscape of the Pennsylvania Wilds, her art has ranged from boundless wilderness scenes to miniature details of the wonders of nature.