Our Impact: Mission Spotlight

Students Solving Real Problems for First Responders

School/Org Windsor Charter Academy
Location Windsor, CO
Funding Impact Fund
Year 2020

Entrepreneurship students spent a semester with Windsor Severance Fire & Rescue, designing real products to make first responders' jobs safer — and proving kids' ideas can change a community.

What happens when you connect passionate, driven young people with a real-world business problem? You create entrepreneurs.

The Entrepreneurship class at Windsor Charter Academy spent a semester working with Windsor Severance Fire & Rescue to design real products that improve the lives of rescuers and first responders. The partnership gave students a genuine outlet for their entrepreneurial ideas — and showed the wider community that kids really can develop solutions that make a positive difference.

It’s a powerful reminder that student ideas, taken seriously, can change a community and the world.

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